- Owners of dirty vehicles warned : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
- CO’s emissions requirements don’t cover CO2 emissions. Should they?(tags: vehicles emissions testing Colorado air+quality threadseed)
- Air Care Colorado
- More details on the state’s vehicle emissions testing requirements: “tests for carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) during a simulated driving cycle.”(tags: air+quality emissions vehicles Colorado testing regulations)
- How Remote Sensing Works - Vehicle Emissions Information - National Motorists Association
- Remote vehicle emission sensing was developed by Dr. Robert Stedman at the University of Denver, Colorado. “Calculates the percentage of hydrocarbons (HC), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO).”(tags: vehicles emissions regulations law+enforcement science technology expert threadseed)
- Local gas is among the cheapest in the nation : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
- Xcel Energy - Colorado Resource Plan
- Outlines the energy resources Xcel Energy will need to acquire to meet CO customers’ electricity demands through 2015. What does the fuel mix look like? Will this plan match reality? How does this change projected emissions/MW for Xcel CO?(tags: Colorado PUC utilities regulation generation fuel planning electricity threadseed)
- Colorado climate action plan
- Here’s what CO gov. Bill Ritter has proposed at the state level” “Climate Action Plan, which includes an agricultural carbon sequestration and offset program, establishes two greenhouse-gas reduction goals: 20% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050.”(tags: planning Colorado carbon+offsets emissions government climate+change politics)
- Colorado Public Utilities Commission Electric Utilities Regulation
- Good resource for keeping up with what’s before the state PUC in terms of electric utility regulation.(tags: Colorado PUC utilities regulation government resource)
- Colorado Open Records Act Nineteen Frequently Asked Questions
- Basics about making open records act requests in Colorado. We’ll be using this to get the city’s emissions inventory database.(tags: Colorado law info+access emissions data threadseed)
- Colorado Confidential:: ‘Real’ Colorado Journalists Wear Purple
- “A few traditionally-minded Capitol-based reporters have formed a group to recommend to the Speaker of the House of Reps and the Senate President which reporters and news organizations that cover the Capitol are legitimate — and which are not.”(tags: Colorado access government problems blogs threadseed)
- U.S. Chamber Against Big Tax Hike in ‘08 | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Thomas Donohue, in a press briefing on the group’s 2008 agenda, suggested it might endorse raising federal gasoline taxes or imposing a new carbon tax, provided the revenue would shore up U.S. transportation.(tags: carbon+tax transportation Chamber+of+Commerce)
- Prince George Citizen - Carbon tax requires political courage
- The National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy upped the ante last Monday saying Canada should adopt a carbon tax on emissions, or a cap-and-trade system that allows polluters to buy carbon credits from non-polluters.(tags: carbon+tax cap+trade canada)
- COLUMN: Carbon tax could be OK, but only if it doesn’t go to a slush fund
- The best shift, in my view, would be to phase in a new carbon tax at a rate that’s high enough to bite the energy hogs but low enough to allow people to adjust spending and commuting habits over time.(tags: carbon+tax canada)
- Point Carbon
- South Africa is considering various climate-change policies, including a proposal to implement a carbon tax.(tags: carbon+tax climate+change South+Africa)
- Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca
- It’s unclear that a carbon tax … would break the backs, or habits, of most motorists. But it might yet spur a new era of industrial innovation.(tags: carbon+tax canada)
- McCain and Bush’s Heirs - New York Times
- Mr. Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, who has never had to run for office, prefers the more direct solution of a carbon tax.(tags: carbon+tax greenspan)
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