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March 11, 2010 Congress, Not EPA, Should Regulate Carbon Emissions

Source:Post Chronicle

Many in Congress are beginning to push back hard against the Environmental Protection Agency's assertion that greenhouse gases - including carbon dioxide - are a public health danger. The regulations that would accompany this...

March 10, 2010 Mercer, 14 plans to gauge impact of climate change on allocations

Source:Pensions and Investments

Fourteen major worldwide pension funds, including CalPERS, CalSTRS and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund-Global, are supporting a Mercer study to identify the potential impact of climate change on asset allocation over the...

March 9, 2010 More Than Jobs, We've Outsourced Our Carbon Emissions

Source:Trehugger.com

We've written about the phenomenon of outsourced carbon emissions a number of times, with the example of perhaps up to one third of China's emissions coming from manufacturing goods destined for consumption abroad being most...

March 9, 2010 Cool it on efforts against new rules, EPA chief asks

Source:Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pushed back against lawmakers' attempts to halt the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases from power plants, refiners and other industrial facilities. EPA...

March 8, 2010 How agencies will shrink their carbon footprints

Source:Fedetral Times.com

The federal government's carbon footprint is big: 51.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. That's roughly twice the size of Walmart's carbon footprint and about one-ninth that of California. And with a new Obama...

March 8, 2010 The fantasy of wind power for Maryland

Source:Baltimore Sun

An Abell Foundation report recently trumpeted the supposed "potential" of offshore wind to provide two-thirds of Maryland's electricity needs. Talk about hot air. With about 100,000 industrial wind turbines in operation around...

March 5, 2010 EU To Propose Carbon Tax

Source:Bernama.com

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission said on Thursday it would soon present a legislative proposal to introduce a carbon tax across the European Union (EU), reports China's Xinhua news agency.

March 5, 2010 Congress Proposes to Suspend EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Power

Source:Environment News Service

WASHINGTON, DC, - Senator Jay Rockefeller today introduced legislation to impose a two-year moratorium on the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants and other stationary...

March 4, 2010 EPA Waits for 2013 on Carbon Emissions of 50,000 Tons a Year

Source:BusinessWeek

U.S. regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions won’t target stationary sources emitting 50,000 to 75,000 tons a year until at least 2013, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said today.

March 3, 2010 Senate Trio Hopes to Hit Pay Dirt With Carbon 'Fee' on Fuels

Source:NY Times

Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy.

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