Renewable

Examples of Renewable in the following topics:

• Energy Policy

  • The administration of Barack Obama has proposed an aggressive energy policy reform, including the need for a reduction of CO2 emissions with a cap and trade program, which could help encourage more clean renewable, sustainable energy development.
  • Renewable energy accounted for about 8% of total energy consumption in the United States in 2009.
  • In the same year, approximately 10% of the electricity produced nationally came from renewable sources.
  • The United States' hydroelectric plants make the largest contribution to the country's renewable energy, producing 248,100MW of the 371,700MW (67%) generated through all renewable energy.
  • Increases in wind, solar, and geothermal power are expected to allow renewable energy production to double in the three-year period from 2009 to 2012, an increase from 8% to 14% of total consumption.

• Sunset Laws

  • In American federal law parlance, legislation that is meant to renew an expired mandate is known as a reauthorization act or extension act.
  • These were later renewed, but expired again on March 10, 2006, and was renewed once more in 2010.

• New Sources of Energy

  • Environmental and political stability in the U.S. has been threatened in recent years by a continued dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels, particularly those from outside sources.
  • Describe the challenges facing those attempting to shift the United States away from non-renewable sources of energy

• Making Agencies Accountable

  • The Comptroller General is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a 15-year, non-renewable term.

• Agricultural Interest Groups

  • These are the groups advocating for policies that would support the renewal of small and local agriculture.

• Preamble

  • "[T]he concerted effort for renewal and expansion of hospital and medical care centers, as a part of our nation's system of hospitals, is as a public service and use within the highest meaning of such terms.

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • The Senate has 100 members, elected for a six year term in dual-seat constituencies (2 from each state), with one-third being renewed every two years.
  • The group of the Senate seats that is up for election during a given year is known as a "class"; the three classes are staggered so that only one of the three groups is renewed every two years.

• Eligibility of Congressmen

  • One-third are renewed every two years.
  • The three classes are staggered so that only one of the three groups is renewed every two years.

• The Federal Communications Commission

  • Broadcast licenses are to be renewed if the station meets the "public interest, convenience, or necessity. "
  • Fewer than 1% of station renewals are not immediately granted, and only a small fraction of those are ultimately denied.

• The Civil Rights Acts

  • The Act has been renewed and amended by Congress four times, the most recent being a 25-year extension signed into law by President George W.