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  • Home
  • About
    • Brief Bio
    • Reporting Awards
    • Other Work Samples
    • Contact
  • E-cology Reports
    • Bird Habitat
    • Climate Change
    • Energy/Environmental Policy
    • Land Restoration
    • Waterway Health
  • Energy News Network
  • Buy Elizabeth’s Book

Category: household energy use

This shines a light on the black box of everyday energy use, whether it’s explaining an energy bill, how wind power is available with out a backyard turbine or how a hybrid car can save money and limit emissions.

Posted on October 2, 2017November 14, 2017 birds climate change e-cology household energy use interior department post-coal energy

Scientists go high-tech to study how birds and offshore wind mix

WASHINGTON—Scientists are counting on light-as-a-feather digital technology to monitor birds and bats flying near the nation’s first offshore wind operation. A wildlife-tracking station installed on...

Posted on July 19, 2017September 25, 2017 climate change environmental heroes household energy use just transitions post-coal energy renewal Uncategorized

Rising from the Coal Ashes: An unlikely alliance fashions a future for working-class Buffalo suburb after power plant shutdown

TOWN OF TONAWANDA, UPSTATE NEW YORK—To an outsider, the brawny red behemoth framed by jutting smokestacks looms at the edge of Niagara River like a...

Posted on April 4, 2017 e-cology household energy use river/waterway health

Beyond Keystone XL: Report reveals where pipeline jobs really are

WASHINGTON—Despite President Donald Trump’s hype, the long-debated Keystone XL isn’t exactly a pipeline to full employment. Analysts at the U.S. State Department have estimated that...

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E-cology Reports

Book cover Greetings Readers, February 10, 2021 by Elizabeth McGowan - Elizabeth McGowan here. Please click to my author website to learn about my journey to publishing Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America. You can sign up for my NEW newsletter about riding and writing, and also invite me to be a speaker for your book group, cancer support group or other cherished institution.… Read more >
Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >