Conservative push for solar is backed by usual green advocates

Conservative push for solar is backed by usual green advocates

By Nichola Groom and Richard Valdmanis LOS ANGELES/BOSTON (Reuters) – When Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party firebrand from Woodstock Georgia, makes the case for solar power, she doesn’t rely on the usual environmental talking points. Former Republican Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr. casts his support for solar energy as a conservative stance against monopoly power utilities that “want to limit energy choice.”  Dooley and Goldwater, along with the right-leaning pro-solar groups

US oil production 'important' amid clean energy transition: Obama

President Barack Obama called US oil production an “important” source of energy as America transitions towards cleaner resources, defending his move to allow petroleum giant Shell to drill in the Alaskan Arctic. Obama’s administration gave the petroleum giant a green light three days ago to explore the Chukchi Sea near Alaska — as long as the Anglo-Dutch firm has the correct permits from the agencies that regulate the environment and