Sunday, February 22, 2009

**A Renewable Portfolio Standard [legal benchmarks]?

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/next-up-a-renewable-portfolio-standard/
NYT: President Obama has called for 10 percent of the nation's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025. A national standard could enshrine those goals into law,
and Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is working on a draft (he held a hearing last week).