Media coverage of WEI this month focused on the role of microbes in biofuel production, fires in the Amazon rainforest, and the emerging clean energy marketplace.
Energy Institute kicks of national clean energy week with panel on energy innovation
The Badger Herald
On September 23rd, The Wisconsin Energy Institute held a panel on innovation in the clean energy marketplace to kick off National Clean Energy Week. The panel included Rebecca Cameron Valcq, who was just appointed as the chair of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin by Governor Evers, Andrew Held, a UW–Madison alumni and the vice president of Virent, a company that makes biofuels, and Gregory Nemet, a UW–Madison professor of public affairs and author of “How Solar Energy Became Cheap.”
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Wisconsin Energy Institute: Microbes & Bioenergy
The Larry Meiller Show
Larry Meiller hosts Jason Peters and Chris Todd Hittinger on WPR to look at how the biofuel process works and how microbes fit into bioenergy development.
Wisconsin conservatives getting on board with renewable energy
The Cap Times
In a recent Tommy Thompson Center event, Tim Donohue, WEI interim director, discusses GLBRC's efforts to lay the groundwork for a system of local fuel and chemical economies in rural areas, increasing the nation’s clean-energy output and giving a much-needed boost to rural economies.
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Why Amazon fires are still raging 10 years after a deal to end them
New York Times
Many of the thousands of fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon are set by ranchers. A deal inked 10 years ago was meant to stop the problem, but the ecological arson goes on as the Earth warms. Holly Gibbs, associate professor of geography and environmental studies, comments on the loopholes that have made the agreement largely ineffectual.
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