Would you pay more in taxes to fix roads and rail? Blueprint America correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.
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NOW on PBS :: August 31st, 2009
Keep on Trucking?: Video: Keep on Trucking?
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NOW on PBS :: August 26th, 2009
Keep on Trucking?: Overview
Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- in a report with correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at the massive amount of freight moved throughout the country -- by trucks and by trains. But the aging infrastructure they run on needs more investment. Still, in these economic times money is hard to come by -- if the economy is to improve, though, the freight system that moves the country's goods needs to keep moving.
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NOW on PBS :: April 15th, 2009
Cleaning Coal: Video: Full Report
With carbon emissions caps on the Obama Administration's agenda, coal is at the center of the energy debate. NOW's Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa goes to Wyoming to report on the state's coal industry, and its assertion that it can produce "clean coal" -- coal that can be burned without releasing carbon into the atmosphere.
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NOW on PBS :: April 9th, 2009
Cleaning Coal: Data: Net Generation from Coal by State by Sector
A report from the Energy Information Administration (U.S. Department of Energy).
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NOW on PBS :: April 9th, 2009
Cleaning Coal: Overview
Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- looks at if America's most affordable and abundant energy resource -- coal -- can be produced without an adverse effect to the environment.
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NOW on PBS :: February 13th, 2009
Stimulus Roadblock?: Overview
President Barack Obama's stimulus money is nearly out the door and on its way to the states, but will it be spent in the way it is intended?
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NOW on PBS :: February 13th, 2009
Stimulus Roadblock?: Video: Full Report
Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- reports from North Carolina to see what the future holds for the country's mass transit systems in these financial times.
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NOW on PBS :: January 16th, 2009
Power Struggle: Overview
As America looks to dramatically increase its use of renewable energy, an inconvenient reality stands in the way: The need to upgrade the country's antiquated electricity grid. Part of that overhaul involves the construction of costly long-distance transmission lines to carry clean energy from remote sites to population centers. Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- reports from California, which has the most ambitious clean energy plan in the nation. But, the state's efforts face stiff opposition from property owners and conservationists who prefer renewable energy from local sources, such as photovoltaic rooftop solar panels. Complicating the matter are claims that the transmission lines are not actually carrying renewable energy at all, but represent a thinly-disguised strategy to stick to old energy practices. The green energy dream: Why it may not happen.
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NOW on PBS :: January 15th, 2009
Power Struggle: Video: Full Report
Will green energy happen? Blueprint America -- with NOW on PBS -- looks at the reality of renewables -- energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, and rain.
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