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Carbon market traders and backers of clean-energy projects aren’t holding their breath for a strong statement on fighting change during this week’s G8 summit and are more focused on who wins November’s US election.
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Colorado’s unique combination of resources makes it a good showcase for what a national policy can look like “going forward,” Gov. Bill Ritter said. Ritter and other Western governors are preparing a national energy plan that they hope the next pres
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Really great, clear backgrounder. You should definitely read this to understand what you’re really buying, if you’re inclined to paying out of pocket for your environmental sins…
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“Advocates of alternative energy are pitted against defenders of the status quo, which in Kansas means coal. The flash point: a proposal by Sunflower Electric Power to build two 700-megawatt, coal-fired power plants in western Kansas.”
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Samsø, a Danish island roughly the size of Nantucket, has been transformed from a conventional emitter of CO2, to a net contributor of renewable energy resources, dramatically reducing its carbon footprint — all in just a single decade, writes Elizabeth
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James Hansen’s headline-grabbing broadside against Big Oil and Big Coal CEOs may prove less significant than his full-throated advocacy of carbon tax-and-dividend as the highest priority for reducing carbon emissions and abating global warming.
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On Monday, James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said at a congressional briefing that the government should not keep the proceeds from any carbon tax, but refund the money to taxpayers to help them pay for more fuel
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Prominent economist Robert J. Shapiro, who chairs the the U.S. Climate Task Force, has released a paper that details a strategy for implementing a carbon tax and using 90 percent of the revenue to cut the payroll tax.
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The hot-button issue of climate change is attracting a swarm of lobbyists representing virtually every major interest group, even though lawmakers say they don’t expect to move legislation this year.
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California air regulators today (June 26) announced a bold plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions that would alter the way utilities generate electricity, automakers build cars and developers construct buildings, and launch the nation’s broadest market in
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Blogger Charles Komanoff writes about a decision by an environmental justice coalition to push for a carbon tax over a carbon trading program because of the potential with cap-and-trade for fraud and lack of transparency.
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Does the “tax” in carbon tax doom it as a policy option in the U.S.? Probably, says one commentator, despite the fact a tax isn’t very different from a cap-and-trade approach.
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Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., will join Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius at a clean energy forum sponsored by Earthjustice on June 26 in Denver.
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Sterling-Rice Group, a Boulder- based brand and marketing-communications firm, announced it has purchased 339,300 kilowatt hours of renewable-energy credits generated by wind farms across America.
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“[E]even among the pro-pricing carbon camp, there is plenty of room for squabbling about the details. There are two basic camps: cap-and-traders and taxers. … Carbon tax proponents, like Wired Mag, argue that a simple tax “would eliminate three classes
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The Senate on Monday opened a raucous debate over climate change legislation even though it will put supporters of the bill, including all three presidential candidates, on the spot — essentially forcing them to come out in favor of high energy costs at
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Like the D’s, McCain is calling for a cap-and-trade system restriction emissions and allowing polluters to trade their credits, though it’s not clear how much of industry would be covered by McCain’s plan, or how those credits would be allocated.
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The senator’s remarks were a clear criticism of Mr. Bush, who in his first term questioned the scientific basis for global warming and who has remained opposed to mandatory caps on emissions, which he says would be bad for the American economy.
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Key differences remain between McCain and the Democrats on climate change — several of which the senator outlined in his talk.
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We have clearly entered the post-Bush era of policy and politics on climate change. However this election turns out, the United States will have a president who supports mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases. It is possible to begin to believe in the prospec
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A new poll suggests most Canadians support the idea of a carbon tax - but an overwhelming majority favour the broader principle of using the tax system to punish or reward environmental behaviour.
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A state Senate resolution honoring the Colorado scientists who shared in last year’s Nobel Peace Prize has turned into a debate on global warming.
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Commentator Tim Thomas, in a piece on rising gas prices and global warming, writes: “Let’s face it, the real answer to curtailing vehicle emissions lies with the development and mass production of electric and hydrogen powered vehicles.”
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A New York Times editorial calls a proposed gas tax holiday political “pandering” and says “Americans must find ways to curb their use of fossil fuels. That will require higher, not lower, prices for gas — even during a presidential campaign.”
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Since mid-March, police officers in Aspen have been testing a hybrid patrol car as a way to do their part for the city of Aspen’s Canary Initiative, an attempt to reduce the city’s carbon footprint and minimize effects on the environment.
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Houston Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy, takes issue with a new carbon cap-and-trade system, which he says have an “Enron-y feel.” He adds: “[W]e don’t need incentives, we need mandates. That means a carbon tax.”
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An L..A. Times editorial uses the example of ethanol, which it calls a “textbook demonstration of why government shouldn’t try to pick winning and losing technologies,” as a case for using market-based incentives to find better energy options, rather than
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The NY Times editorial page slams a campaign proposal to lift the gas tax: “Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton have hit on a new way to pander to American voters: a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax between Memorial Day and Lab
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