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Alternative energy incentives are in danger. The coming months may be the time to act.
Opinion

Alternative energy incentives are in danger. The coming months may be the time to act.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • May 29, 2025

Erik Chalhoub here, trying to remain cautious of my spending, especially in today’s volatile economy. As expensive as everything is now, thing…

Monterey County should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by requiring new homes to be all-electric.
Forum | Opinion

Monterey County should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by requiring new homes to be all-electric.

  • Michael DeLapa and Ben Gould
  • Jan 19, 2023

Monterey County’s draft greenhouse gas inventory, updated in August 2022, contained a surprising statistic: Nearly one-fourth of all greenhous…

Once the source of large-scale pollution, Moss Landing is cleaning up.
News

Once the source of large-scale pollution, Moss Landing is cleaning up.

  • Christopher Neely
  • May 26, 2022

From the time they were constructed in the 1960s until their retirement in the mid-1990s, the pair of 500-foot-tall smokestacks at the coastal…

California leads the U.S. in rooftop solar production. Changes proposed by utilities could halt progress.
News

California leads the U.S. in rooftop solar production. Changes proposed by utilities could halt progress.

  • Christopher Neely
  • May 11, 2021

A battle is brewing in the local and statewide energy sectors over what some deem a profit grab and existential threat to the growth of the so…

Apple plans battery-based solar storage project in South County.
News

Apple plans battery-based solar storage project in South County.

  • Tajha Chappellet-Lanier
  • Mar 31, 2021

Apple Inc. announced on Wednesday, March 31 that it will be building out more of its renewable energy infrastructure in Monterey County. Speci…

Local governments move to break PG&E monopoly.
News

Local governments move to break PG&E monopoly.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Dec 7, 2016

Just a few months ago things looked shaky, with both the city of Salinas and Monterey County contemplating bowing out of a plan to break Pacif…

Forum | Opinion

Faith communities take up the pope’s directive to fight climate change.

  • Daniel Sheehan
  • Jun 23, 2016

June 18 marked the one-year anniversary of Laudato Si, a papal letter in which Pope Francis declared what had already been known by virtually every climate scientist in the world…

Rooftop solar spreads across Monterey County as permitting, financing hurdles come down.
News

Rooftop solar spreads across Monterey County as permitting, financing hurdles come down.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Aug 13, 2015

Shiny headwear is a hot trend for local rooftops, as creative financing options and streamlined regulations put solar power within more proper…

Rancho Cielo youth graduate from the alternative campus’ first solar-installation class.
News

Rancho Cielo youth graduate from the alternative campus’ first solar-installation class.

  • Sara Rubin
  • May 28, 2015

Michael Castaner says he knew in his gut it was a bad idea, but with a pair of bolt-cutters, he and a friend broke into a house and stole a 9-…

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Rogers 4.29.14

  • Rob Rogers
  • Apr 29, 2014

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