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Marin Independent Journal Editors have published another in their series of PG&E friendly editorials, critical of the pioneering Marin Clean Energy Initiative, now moving ahead following affirmative votes by the county Supervisors, and several of Marin's towns and cities last week, establishing the Marin Energy Authority.

 Richard Halstead of the Marin Independent Journal documents the historic unanimous vote in favor of Marin Clean Energy by the Marin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, November 18 2008. Read the entire story here.

Now Novato must decide whether to join

By Paul Jones
News Editor
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:10 PM PST 

David Orth is the General Manager of the San Joaquin Valley Power Authority, California's most advanced Community Choice Energy plan. The weekend edition of the Independent Journal carried his OP/ED piece that precedes a week of meetings and workshops here in Marin- several featuring David and other leaders in the CCA movement.

Read the entire story here. 

 "A fan of Marin's green energy plan

Marin IJ

Staff Report
Article Launched: 09/28/2008 12:04:44 AM PDT

Tam Hunt writes in Renewable Energy World (August 20 2008) that Community Choice Aggregation for Local Electrical Power is a very promising, advanced, government policy to address the climate crisis in a very significant way. 

Bonnie Allen, writing in the August issue of North Bay Biz, has laid out the nuts and bolts, as well as the future economic vision for Marin Clean Energy. This article is one of the best journalistic efforts to date on Marin's pioneering renewable energy initiative. After you read the quote, below, enjoy the full story here.

Peter Seidman, Environment Reporter at the Pacific Sun, wrote this very balanced article on Marin Clean Energy in May of 2008. He points out that our current Investor Owned Utility (IOU), PG&E, has begun an "adversarial" campaign to prevent MCE's establishment by vote of Marin's City Councils and County Board of Supervisors. Below are two salient quotes from the article. Click here to read the whole story.

Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and latté-sipping Marin resident Katherine Ellison, published this lively story about Marin Clean Energy in the San Francisco Chronicle in May of 2008. She poignantly looks at PG&E's marketing campaign to sell themselves as the greenest utility around. But,