If you think covering the green economy means chasing the latest solar, wind and biofuels projects; keeping up with sustainable building trends; and test-driving the latest electric car, you're only partially correct. As the hoopla over climate change and global warming accelerates, it's bumping up against the status quo.
Thus, President Obama can't find the political support to provide incentives for renewable energy without keeping them in place for oil and gas exploration. And coal and nuclear have nudged their way onto the “clean” energy list.
“You can have renewables -- you should have renewables -- but you can't abandon the traditional parts of the industry,” says Martin Frost, a former Democratic congressman from Texas who works as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., for the law firm Polsinelli Shughart.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Ten tips for covering energy and sustainability : BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
Author: Mike Cote
