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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking research institute will no longer have the word “renewable” in its title, the U.S. Department of ...

The newly renamed National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden. (Gazette file photo) When President George H.W. Bush renamed the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) the National Renewable Energy ...

The federal government research organization that has been devoted for half a century to renewable energy development has had the word “renewable” stripped from its name. The Trump administration, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, now ...

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