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A comprehensive study of climate models reported in Science predicted the Southwest’s gradual descent into persistent Dust Bowl conditions by mid-century.
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GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, at the meeting of the National Governors Association, urged states and the federal government to tax carbon-dioxide emissions or to set up cap-and-trade systems to give the financial markets some long-term certainty.
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Some believe a carbon tax, aptly applied, could accomplish the same goals more efficiently than an individual carbon allowance.
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Popular Science looks to local environmental initiatives to find top green cities — Denver makes the cut at No. 19.
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Every new building put up in Britain will have to be zero carbon, emitting none of the pollution that is the main cause of global warming, the Government will announce this week.
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A coalition of 25 environmental groups is asking California not to use a market-based tool to curb greenhouse gas emissions, calling it unfair to poor and minority communities.
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Iowans who try to go “green” with ethanol or wind power will unwittingly contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions, say energy officials, because the Iowa companies that make ethanol and wind-turbine blades are largely powered by coal.
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Before the Univeristy of Colorado last week hired Bruce Benson as president of the CU system, on-campus factions railed against Benson’s job as a successful oil man and his temerity to question the severity of human-caused global warming.
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In the debate between a cap-and-trade scheme and a straight carbon tax — the devil is in the broad brushstrokes. It boils down to what’s more important: how much a constraint on greenhouse-gas emissions will cost, or how much it will help the planet.
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