• Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter — The Herald-Zeitung While states such as like California and New York are moving quickly to address global warming, the issue has prompted only scattered calls for reforms here. (tags: carbon+emissions Texas global+warming)
• Lacey to council: Join mayors’ climate agreement > Current Affairs > Blogs > Castle Rock > YourHub.com Tonight I asked the Castle Rock Town Council to pass a resolution committing our community to the goals of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.(tags: carbon+tax denver)
• Megan McArdle (January 15, 2008) - Liveblogging the debate: Alternative Energy, Part II John Edwards has delved deep into the “Cap ‘n Trade or Carbox Tax” question? This is the sort of thing that gives economists hives. (tags: carbon+tax elections john+edwards president primaries debates democrats cap+trade)
• Candidates missing key opportunity to lead on economic issues - MarketWatch With the withdrawal of Chris Dodd from the race, the simplest solution to our energy problems - a carbon tax - is an orphan, with no candidate giving it any love (tags: carbon+tax president democrats cap+trade)

• Climate Talk’s Cancellation Splits a Town - New York Times School authorities’ cancellation of a talk that a Nobel laureate climate researcher was to have given to high school students has deeply divided this small farming and ranching town at the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains. (tags: climate+change Montana IPCC)

• BillingsGazette.com :: Climate report doesn’t sway some legislators If the [Montana] Legislature is to adopt any of the proposals in a state global-warming report, it appears it is first going to have clear some skeptics. The Climate Change Advisory Council’s recommendations, 54 in total, received some pointed criticism. (tags: carbon+emissions state+legislature Montana global+warming politics)
• Carlsbad (N.M.) Current-Argus - Sun helps reduce family’s energy costs The local power company, it turned out, was fascinated by the whole thing. … According to company officials, the home is the first residential solar installation inside of Xcel’s regional service area, which basically includes southeastern New Mexico. (tags: Xcel power+company New+Mexico solar residential)
• The Denver Post - Common sense a historic value The Denver Landmark Preservation Commission on Tuesday backed down from enforcing a policy that requires redevelopers of historic buildings to waste energy — and thereby contribute to global warming. The Post applauds this outbreak of common sense. (tags: Denver energy+efficiency historic+preservation global+warming)
• The Ithaca Journal — Common Council votes to support federal carbon tax Support for a federal carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions passed unanimously in Ithaca Common Council’s Planning and Economic Development Committee late Wednesday night. (tags: carbon+tax ithaca+new+york)
• New test for developers in Maine: climate change | csmonitor.com At hearings last month, Maine environmentalists unveiled for state regulators what is being called a first-in-the-nation study of the greenhouse-gas emissions expected from a huge development planned for Maine’s Moosehead Lake. (tags: carbon+emissions development Maine housing)
• Locally, a green groundswell Sarasota County will become the first local government between Tampa Bay and Miami to develop a greenhouse gas reduction plan after releasing a report next month. (tags: carbon+emissions greenhouse+gases Florida county)
• EU Unions Want Import Tax On Countries Not Tackling EmissionsThe European Trade Union Confederation said a carbon tax would be the only fair way to keep jobs in Europe and prevent heavy industry from moving to regions with lower costs for carbon polluters, such as Ukraine, Russia or Turkey.(tags: carbon+tax europe global+warming greenhouse+gases industry)
• FOXNews.com - Sarkozy Calls for EU Taxes, Quotas on Countries That Refuse Greenhouse Gas Limits - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe NewsThe French leader said it was “indispensable” that goods coming from countries that refuse to cap their emissions be penalized, either through import taxes or by placing quotas on imports from such countries.(tags: carbon+tax carbon+emissions france europe)

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