• UC-Boulder || Colorado’s Second Congressional District Candidates To Debate Energy Issues At CU-Boulder Law School Candidates for Colorado’s Second Congressional District will square off March 18 at the University of Colorado at Boulder Wolf Law Building in a debate over what the United States should do to achieve energy security and halt global warming. (tags: Congress Colorado global+warming greenhouse+gases)
• Environment Colorado || New report shows Colorado warming more than the rest of continental US in recent years Nearly the entire country has experienced record high temperatures for the last five years, but Colorado has been warming even more than the rest of the continental US in recent years, according to a new report. (tags: Colorado global+warming temperatures)
• BillingsGazette.com :|| Concerns make coal future unclear Governors and other officials from major mining states are intensifying calls to expand technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal power. (tags: coal carbon+emissions coal+plants global+warming states)

• TwinCities.com || Senator remains tireless in push for energy policy If 2007 was the year when the Minnesota Legislature embraced big energy bills, 2008 is decidedly less splashy. Smaller bills are moving, but a tug of war is being fought over high-profile ones. (tags: Minnesota energy state+legislature)
• Greentech Media | GE Head Nixes Carbon Tax Concept Adding to a long-standing debate about whether a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system makes more sense, Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, said during a speech Wednesday that the word “tax” is too polarizing to be politically acceptable. (tags: General+Electric Immelt carbon+tax cap+trade)
• Property plan’s ‘low carbon’ goal Improving the environmental performance of buildings in North America can cut the region’s carbon emissions more than any other measure, a study suggests. (tags: buildings carbon environment sustainability technology climatechange energy+efficiency)
• Bill Clinton: Green building can be key to New Orleans’ future Former President Bill Clinton said energy efficient, green building can be a key part of New Orleans’ comeback from Hurricane Katrina. (tags: Green+cities green+building buildings New+Orleans Bill+Clinton global+warming greenhouse+gases)
• Vancouver Sun || Building green vital for climate, panel says Making buildings greener is the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gases, says panel. (tags: greenhouse+gases canada buildings)
• Vancouver Sun || Carbon-trading system recommended The debate over which is better — a carbon tax or a carbon trading system — is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. And in the end, the answer may be that both are needed, delegates to the Globe 2008 conference heard Friday in Vancouver. (tags: canada carbon+tax cap+trade)

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