Solar Payments Set Off a Fairness Debate - NYTimes.com

But the affected utilities, the three large investor-owned companies operating in the state, say solar customers have been getting a free ride on the backs of regular ratepayers. They use the grid essentially as “a big battery” without covering the cost to maintain it, said Steven E. Malnight, a vice president at Pacific Gas and Electric.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Higher elevations of New Z

Higher elevations of New Zealand should get 2-3 feet of snow in the next couple days w/ storm.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Looks like the worst weath

Looks like the worst weather in US will be in Western Montana w/tornado watches, supercells, & insane Rockies snow. http://policlimate.com/weather/wrf/sp …

Twitter / RyanMaue: Unless something changes t

Unless something changes towards end of June, going to be ugly gloom/cold in Pac NW, trough after trough. 500 mb temps: http://policlimate.com/weather/curren …

Twitter / HaroldAmbler: An excerpt from last night

An excerpt from last night's radio broadcast re climate change: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/weather …

Twitter / StephenAtHome: NC passed law against glob

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Inhofe: Senate Will Vote in Next Two Weeks on Effort to Stop Obama War on Coal

Washington, D.C. - This evening, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, gave a speech on the Senate floor highlighting a new video of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding admitting that due to EPA's barrage of rules, "if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem." Administrator Spalding goes on to explain that the decision to kill coal was painful "because you got to remember that if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal. And to say that we just think those communities should just go away, we can't do that. But [Administrator Jackson] had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it's painful. It's painful every step of the way."