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Candidates for House and local offices touted their policies for fighting greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, while emphasizing increasing “green jobs.”
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The $160 million home to the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Mammoth and Colorado Crush — Pepsi Center — is going green
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Colorado was ranked among 10 states that emitted the most CO2 per megawatt-hour of electricity produced (meaning the least efficient power production relative to resulting climate-related pollution).
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For the first time in the U.S., carbon dioxide goes on sale in September — and the bidding will start at $1.86 a ton. A consortium of 10 states said Monday it will hold the first auction of carbon emissions “allowances” on Sept. 10.
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Des Moines officials will spend the next six months measuring the city’s greenhouse gas emissions as well as whether the municipal yard waste disposal system sends too many climate-changing pollutants into the air.
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A N.Y. man is spending thousands of dollars to take his campaign for a carbon tax national, successfully lobbying in Ithaca to pass resolutions urging national leaders to pass resolutions urging national leaders to enact a federal carbon tax.
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“The biggest surge in ridership happened on regional routes. Cris Jones, a city transit planner, said the debut of the Bolt bus route between Boulder and Longmont (combined with the high price of gas) might explain the increase in longer-distance riders.”
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“California’s landmark legislation to fight global warming has been on the books for more than a year, but it still lacks stable, long-term funding to help meet its ambitious goal to limit greenhouse gas emissions…. At least one environmental group thin
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S.F. Mayor Newsom has set goals for the city to become carbon-neutral by 2020. In a Q&A, he adds: “We want a carbon tax to replace the payroll tax in this country. That’s fundamental today. You get serious about a massive investment [in green jobs].”
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A enviro blogger asks: What are the challenges to such a tax. Is this type of tax fair to all types of business? Who does it penalize unfairly and what are the real chances of this tax initiative being passed?
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If a long-anticipated carbon tax is imposed, wind could easily become, hands-down, the cheapest source of power.
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to block California’s crackdown on auto emissions is hampering efforts by Colorado to reduce greenhouse gases, an environmental group said.
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Colorado was among those states considering adoption of California’s tailpipe standards, which the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday justified blocking by saying the problems of global warming aren’t unique to one state.
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“Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and state Sen. Ed Murray recently unveiled a plan to tax cars on the basis of their fuel efficiency. … Variously dubbed a carbon tax or a Hummer tax, it is a worthy idea.”
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This overview of British Columbia’s new carbon tax notes that it is part of a fundamental shift from income taxes to consumption taxes, one in which fuel tax is only a part.
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The B.C. government has brought in the first significant set of carbon taxes in North America and is showing it could be done with remarkably little political resistance.
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“Objections were esp. loud and public in Gunnison and Telluride. Dissenters objected to further investments in large, centralized coal-generated electricity given the carbon constraints likely as the nation confronts climate-changing greenhouse gases.”
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Major retrofit happening soon at North Boulder’s Ideal Market — a local cultural landmark. Wonder what they have planned to improve energy efficiency?
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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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