energy efficiency

The city of San Diego’s initiative to install cameras on streetlights citywide was presented to the city council as a way to save money on lighting costs but concerns are mounting about how data collected by the ‘Smart Streetlight” system will be used, and who will have access to that information.

The City Council gave the streetlight camera provider, General Electric, unrestricted rights to the data. NBC 7’s Mark Mullen has more on what this means for you.

In an annual showcase, SDG&E honors leaders in energy efficiency and clean technology. NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia and Monica Dean have more on the eight winners, including NBC 7/T20.

On Dec. 4, President Donald Trump tweeted about French President Emmanuel Macron and the Paris Agreement, misrepresenting the foreign leader’s position on the climate accord. Macron has not said or suggested the Paris Agreement is “fatally flawed,” as Trump implied.

Developers of the mixed-use Makers Quarter in East Village have scheduled a May 30 ground-breaking for “Block D,” billed as the first multitenant downtown office building to be constructed in nearly a decade.

This Earth Day, BlocPower a startup that creates apps to crowdsource funding, construction, acquisitions and jobs to retrofit properties across low to moderate income communities is launching three new apps that streamline its resources putting the ability to green a property directly into the property owners’ hands. BlocPower takes on retrofitting proposals, which is when a property can take an...

Military spending would get the biggest boost in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget. Environmental programs, medical research, Amtrak and an array of international and cultural programs — from Appalachia to the arts — would take big hits, among the many parts of the government he’d put on a crash diet....
The budget proposal out Thursday is a White House wish list;...

President Donald Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget on Thursday, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Trump’s proposal seeks to upend Washington with cuts to long-promised campaign targets like foreign aid and the Environmental Protection Agency...

President Donald Trump sends Congress a proposed budget this week that will sharply test Republicans’ ability to keep long-standing promises to bolster the military, making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs. The Republican president will ask his adopted political party, which runs Capitol Hill, to cut domestic agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and...