Energy Conservation & Efficiency
Clean lighting bill clears Rhode Island House
On June 6th, the Rhode Island House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation to phase out inefficient fluorescent lighting. The bill now moves to the Senate.
Johanna
Neumann
Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy, Environment America
On staff: 2001-2003; 2005-present
B.S., Tufts University
Johanna directs strategy and staff for Environment America’s energy campaigns at the local, state and national level. In her prior positions, she led the campaign to ban smoking in all Maryland workplaces, helped stop the construction of a new nuclear reactor on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and helped build the support necessary to pass the EmPOWER Maryland Act, which set a goal of reducing the state’s per capita electricity use by 15 percent. She also currently serves on the board of Community Action Works. Johanna lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family, where she enjoys growing dahlias, biking and the occasional game of goaltimate.
Posts by Johanna Neumann
Houses of worship go solar
Faith leaders and solar installers discuss how and why houses of worship are going solar and how the clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act can help.
How to get to 100% clean energy with today’s technologies
Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson and Environment America’s Johanna Neumann discuss how today’s technologies can achieve 100% renewable energy
The road to 100% renewable energy: April update
Imagine a world powered by clean, renewable energy. Environment America’s advocates, organizers and members are sharing this vision with college campuses, cities and states across the country. Here's a roundup of stories from the past month:
Solar neighborhoods act under consideration in Rhode Island
A Rhode Island lawmakers has introduced legislation to make solar panels standard on certain new residential and commercial construction and parking lots.