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| Trusting science on climate change |
| CNNMoney.com |
Do climate change scientists really know what they're talking about? CNNMoney went beyond the climate scientists and put the question to a broader swath of scientific opinion. Read More...
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| Natural-gas group comes out against EPA rules |
| NASDAQ |
Natural-gas providers are lining up against planned Environmental Protection Agency rules to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, citing concerns that the regulations could make it harder to obtain permits needed to boost supplies.
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| Carbon Capture and Storage Coalition launched in California |
| PennEnergy |
Prompted by a study highlighting the importance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to meet California's long-term target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, a group of energy companies with an interest in advancing CCS announced the launch of the California CCS Coalition. Read More...
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| Top scientists admit Climategate seriously damaged public trust |
| New York Times |
A number of top scientists say the unauthorized release last fall of hundreds of e-mail messages from a major climate research center in England caused a major breach of faith in their research. They say the uproar threatens to undermine decades of work and has badly damaged public trust in the scientific enterprise. Read More...
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| Campaign rises against 'subsidies' for environmental lawsuits |
| Arizona Daily Star |
A campaign is growing against the many lawsuits filed by groups such as Tucson's own Center for Biological Diversity. The complaint: A federal law is allowing the center and others to unfairly collect millions in attorneys' fees, which then go to subsidize more lawsuits. Read More...
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| Scientists taking steps to defend work on climate |
| New York Times |
For months, climate scientists have taken a vicious beating in the media and on the Internet, accused of hiding data, covering up errors and suppressing alternate views. Their response until now has been largely to assert the legitimacy of the vast body of climate science and to mock their critics as cranks and know-nothings. Read More...
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| Transparency blacked out -- time to get the truth |
| Salt Lake Tribune (U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis) |
Our nation's governing document grants every American the right to petition their government for a redress of grievances. Over the course of our history, we have gone to great lengths to ensure that every person has the same access to that right regardless of race, creed or class. In fact, the law dictates that citizens should be reimbursed for their legal expenses should they sue the federal government and win. No American should have to risk their livelihood or savings in order to seek justice. That is why, in 1980, Congress passed the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA).
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| Defections shake up climate coalition |
| Wall Street Journal |
Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Read More...
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| Blinded by science |
| Real Clear Politics |
Science, many scientists say, has been restored to her rightful throne because progressives have regained power. Progressives, say progressives, emulate the cool detachment of scientific discourse. So hear now the calm, collected voice of a scientist lavishly honored by progressives, Rajendra Pachauri. Read More...
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| Green energy jobs? Not from Obama's big government meddling |
| U.S. News & World Report |
The Obama administration and its congressional allies have been promising to usher in a green economy that will create millions of new green jobs. There's only one problem with all of the feel-good talk of creating green jobs: It makes no economic sense whatsoever, and where it has been tried most extensively, evidence shows that it's a job-destroying, economy-weakening fiasco. Read More...
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| Key climate scientist admits: "There has been no global warming since 1995" |
| Daily Mail |
The climate scientist whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change admitted to the BBC that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of his data, that there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995 and that the world might have been warmer in medieval times than now – which suggests that global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon. Read More...
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| Arizona quits climate pact |
| Investors.com |
The Grand Canyon State avoids a big economic hole by suspending its participation in a multistate initiative to fight climate change. As climate fraud is exposed, economic reality sets in. Will California follow? Read More...
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| Arizona quits Western climate endeavor |
| Arizona Republic |
Arizona will no longer participate in a groundbreaking attempt to limit greenhouse-gas emissions across the West, a change in policy by Gov. Jan Brewer that will include a review of all the state's efforts to combat climate change. Read More...
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| New wind farms in the U.S. do not bring jobs |
| ABC News |
Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C Read More...
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| Using smokestack gases to pump oil |
| Wall Street Journal |
Carbon dioxide pouring from smokestacks hardly has a reputation as a valuable commodity. But one company has launched a series of projects to see if it can use the refuse of the industrial economy to breathe new life into tired oil fields. Read More...
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| Caterpillar joins FutureGen clean coal alliance |
| Reuters |
Caterpillar Inc. said it will join the FutureGen Alliance to build a $1.5 billion near zero emissions coal-fueled power plant to produce hydrogen and electricity while capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide underground in Illinois. Read More...
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| New errors in IPCC climate change report |
| telegraph.co.uk |
The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders. Read More...
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| Countries submit emission goals |
| New York Times |
The climate change accord reached at Copenhagen in December passed its first test on Monday after countries responsible for the bulk of climate-altering pollution formally submitted their emission reduction plans, meeting the agreement’s Jan. 31 deadline. Read More...
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| Idaho, four other western states named in EPA lawsuit |
| Idaho Statesman |
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to meet numerous deadlines for limiting dangerous pollution from tiny airborne particles like soot and dust in Idaho, Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nevada. Read More...
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| Slowdown in warming linked to water vapor |
| Wall Street Journal |
Climatologists have puzzled over why global average temperatures have stayed roughly flat in the past decade, despite a long-term warming trend. New research suggests that lower levels of water vapor in the stratosphere may partly explain the anomaly. Read More...
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| Obama budget omits cap-and-trade revenues |
| Reuters |
The White House has dropped projected revenues from a "cap-and-trade" mechanism to fight climate change from its new budget, an administration official said, bowing to the possibility that the U.S. Congress may not pass it. Read More...
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| EPA tightens NO2 standard |
| Greenwire |
U.S. EPA today strengthened the federal public health standard for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, a limit that has been in place for nearly four decades. Read More...
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| UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers |
| Yahoo News/AP |
Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful. Read More...
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| Murkowski takes EPA fight to Senate floor |
| McClatchy Newspapers |
Sen. Lisa Murkowski took her battle with the Environmental Protection Agency to the floor of the Senate Thursday, saying she was left with no choice but to fight a federal agency she believes is "contemplating regulations that will destroy jobs while millions of Americans are doing everything they can just to find one." Read More...
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| Imported from Asia: Ozone |
| ENN |
Ever wonder how the western U.S. has high ozone levels when the winds usually blow in off the Pacific Ocean? Did you think it was all from the cars clogging the freeways? Turns out, it is caused in part from emissions of ozone generating air pollutants from Asia. Read More...
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| Opinion: It's time for a fresh look at climate change policy |
| Sioux City Journal |
The U.S. would be served well by taking a fresh look at policies to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in light of the lack of international support for a “targets and timetables” approach to emission reductions evidenced by the nonbinding agreement reached by President Obama and other international leaders at the December gathering in Copenhagen. Read More...
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| Rasmussen talks candidly about climate change |
| Farm & Ranch Guide |
Though Kimball Rasmussen, CEO of Deseret Power, did not use the term “climategate,” he did declare there is no subject at this time which “stands greater in importance - not to mention confusion, hype and hysteria - than the topic of climate change.” Read More...
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| AFBF resolution opposes cap and trade |
| Agweek |
Delegates to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention Jan. 12 in Seattle unanimously passed a resolution in opposition to cap-and-trade legislation and in support of legislation to suspend the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Read More...
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| World misled over glacier meltdown: Report |
| Economic Times |
A warning that most of the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 owing to climate change is likely to be retracted after the United Nations body that issued it admitted to a series of scientific blunders. Read More...
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| Good news for the world: Bad news for official climate science body |
| Telegraph.co.uk |
It’s the best news of the decade so far, but not for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the official ultimate authority on climate science, for it poses a much greater threat to its credibility than the much-hyped “Climategate” emails and puts further questionmarks over its embattled chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri. Read More...
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| EPA tightens smog standards |
| Denver Business Journal |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tighter standards for ground-level ozone, a key component of smog. The rules would make it even tougher for the Denver area to reduce air pollution to allowable levels. Read More...
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| Costs, benefits, and a roadmap for cap and trade |
| W. P. Carey School, Arizona State University |
Policymakers and business leaders recently met to to discuss the quantitative benefits of reducing GHG emissions versus the costs at a forum co-sponsored by the Arizona Investment Council and Arizona Businesses Advancing Sustainability. Read More...
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| Business Summit of the West draws 18,000 participants |
| Western Business Roundtable |
More than 18,000 citizens from across the West joined business leaders, Western Governors, Members of Congress, state officials and national conservation groups at this week's 2010 Business Summit of the West to hear how new technologies are reducing industry's environmental footprint, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, improving wildlife habitat and creating new jobs. Read More...
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| Greenhouse gases: Who's cheating? |
| Business Week |
As the world gets serious about fighting climate change, a huge question looms: Are countries and companies really reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as much as they claim? Read More...
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| Climate pact falls short |
| Wall Street Journal |
Leaders of the U.S., China and other major economies said late Friday that they had tentatively reached a new climate accord, though they said the pact wasn't aggressive enough to meaningfully curb greenhouse-gas emissions and merely set up a future round of negotiations to hash out the details. Read More...
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| Fraud in Europe's cap and trade system a 'red flag,' critics say |
| FOX News |
The top cops in Europe say carbon-trading has fallen prey to an organized crime scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion -- a massive fraud that lawmakers and energy experts say should send a "red flag" to the U.S., where the House approved cap-and-trade legislation over the summer amid stiff opposition. Read More...
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| Panel at Copenhagen proposes methane fund |
| ClimateWire |
An independent panel of scientists, government officials, and investors has proposed a new financial entity, the Global Methane Fund, which focuses on supporting projects that reduce methane emissions. Read More...
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| Industrial nations criticize draft climate pact |
| Wall Street Journal |
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the chilly Danish capital, and 968 were detained Saturday, in a mass rally to demand an ambitious global climate pact just as talks here hit a snag over rich nations' demands on China and other emerging economies. Read More...
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| China emerges as a green-technology leader |
| Wall Street Journal |
Xu Shisen put down the phone and smiled. That was Canada calling, explained the chief engineer at a coal-fired power plant set among knockoff antique and art shops in a Beijing suburb. A Canadian company is interested in Mr. Xu's advances in bringing down the cost of stripping out greenhouse-gas emissions from burning coal. Read More...
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| Climate change bill gets on a bipartisan path |
| Houston Chronicle |
Senators negotiating a bipartisan climate change bill on Thursday unveiled the broad outlines of their plan to combine greenhouse gas limits with expanded offshore drilling, more nuclear power and protections for refiners in a bid to attract support from wary lawmakers. Read More...
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| Industry reacts to EPA climate ruling |
| Forbes/AP |
Political, costly, and likely to choke off growth. That's how the energy industry and companies that use a lot of energy describe the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement Monday that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger and must be regulated. Read More...
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| EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger health |
| TIME |
The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. Read More...
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| Tri-State tests new solar-coal electric technology |
| Denver Business Journal |
A small coal-fired generating plant owned by Colorado's Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc. in northwestern New Mexico will be used to test new hybrid technology that combines solar- and coal-generated steam to produce electricity. Read More...
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| An oil play environmentalists could love |
| Forbes |
Denbury plans to breathe new life into an old field by injecting it with massive amounts of carbon dioxide--a process with big implications for the capture and sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants across the country. Read More...
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| Climate science not settled, but risk is clear |
| Idaho Statesman |
You don't have to be a global warming skeptic to be sickened by the petty backbiting and efforts to prevent transparency among climate scientists that were revealed in a series of e-mails hacked from the e-mail accounts of climatologists from a British university. Read More...
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| In face of skeptics, experts affirm climate peril |
| New York Times |
The "ClimateGate" debate, set off by the circulation of several thousand files and e-mail messages stolen from one of the world’s foremost climate research institutes, has led some who oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and at least one influential country, Saudi Arabia, to question the scientific basis for the Copenhagen talks. Read More...
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| Business fumes over carbon dioxide rule |
| Wall Street Journal |
Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. Read More...
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| United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak |
| Associated Press |
The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official. Read More...
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| Colorado: State report casts doubt on Colorado CO2 goals |
| Denver Business Journal |
A new report from the Governor’s Energy Office says there is no way that Colorado’s utilities can cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 unless major investments are made and older coal-fired power plants shut down. Read More...
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| Can we go 100% renewable? |
| BBC News |
The Copenhagen climate change talks will discuss how to capture the energy from such "renewable" sources. But the question remains: can renewable energy provide 100% of the energy needed to power the UK? Read More...
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| U.S., China cooperate on coal |
| Casper Star-Tribune |
Wyoming scientists, coal developers and their counterparts in China will increase their collaboration on cleaner coal technologies following talks between President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao earlier this month. Read More...
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| Opinion: Climate change and melting glaciers |
| Wall Street Journal |
This article by Bjørn Lomborg is the first in a series of articles leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen. The series will look at how ordinary people in different countries view the issue. Read More...
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| ‘Cap and trade’ folly / Rules may turn recession into depression |
| San Diego Union Tribune |
With state unemployment at 12.5 percent, you’d think the last thing the California Air Resources Board and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be doing is crowing about new regulations that are certain to kill jobs. But that’s just what happened this week when the air board issued the parameters for its “cap and trade” system under which companies would buy and sell allowances for the emissions that contribute to global warming. Read More...
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| Opinion: Cap and trade is dead |
| Wall Street Journal |
So declares Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, taking a few minutes away from a Thanksgiving retreat with his family. "Ninety-five percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they are all in." Read More...
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| States weigh cap-and-trade backup program |
| Denver Post/Bloomberg News |
Cash-strapped states in search of new revenue may establish their own "cap-and- trade" program for greenhouse gases covering more than half the U.S. economy if Congress doesn't set up a federal emissions market. Read More...
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| California drafts its own cap-and-trade plan |
| Environmental Leader |
The California Air Resources Board has issued a preliminary draft (PDF) of the nation’s first cap-and-trade program to control greenhouse (GHG) emissions, which is likely to influence federal regulations, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Greenspace blog. Read More...
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| Climate change data dumped |
| Times Online |
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. Read More...
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| Rigging a climate 'consensus' |
| Wall Street Journal |
The climatologists at the center of the leaked email and document scandal have taken the line that it is all much ado about nothing. Yes, the wording of their messages was unfortunate, but they insist this in no way undermines the underlying science. They're ignoring the damage they've done to public confidence in the arbiters of climate science. Read More...
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| Opinion: Awash in fossil fuels |
| Washington Post |
What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa. Read More...
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| Alaska criticizes federal position on Polar Bears |
| Eco Factory |
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell has come to clash with the federal government on the issue of polar bears. The arctic predator, which hunts on declining sea ice, has grown to its largest population in decades — over 20,000 today over as little as 8,000 in 1960. Read More...
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| Dust up about dust |
| Big Sky Business Journal |
A federal regulatory proposal, that is being “fast tracked” to adoption, poses a new threat to the survivability of businesses in Montana, most especially agriculture, according to the Western Business Roundtable. Read More...
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| Sunoco CEO spars with Rep. Markey on cap and trade |
| Heating Oil |
Sunoco CEO Lynn Elsenhan and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) exchanged words during a session at this week’s Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, D.C. Elsenhan said that the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which is sponsored by Rep. Markey and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), did not establish a level playing field and clearly picked U.S. oil refiners as “losers.” Read More...
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| Canyon officials to tackle warming |
| Arizona Daily Sun |
Officials at the Grand Canyon are proposing to make the national park one of at least 50 in the country that attempts to counter and respond to global climate change. Read More...
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| Oceans may trap more carbon than forests |
| Environmental Leader |
Marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows, mangroves and salt marshes have a much greater capacity to trap carbon than land carbon sinks such as forests, according to a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Read More...
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| Manufacturing money and global warming |
| SPPI |
A new paper by Dr. David Evans, published by the Science and Public Policy Institute, makes the case that financial institutions and banks are strongly supporting carbon emissions trading schemes are because they see large profits in the trading game. Read More...
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| Arizona business leaders discuss the economic tradeoffs of carbon control |
| Arizona Investment Council |
This half-day conference, sponsored by the Arizona Investment Council and Arizona Businesses Advancing Sustainability, will bring together Arizona’s key policymakers, government officials and business leaders to discuss the potential environmental costs and economic challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Read More...
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| Common Sense Climate Solutions Summit in Phoenix |
| Western Business Roundtable |
Are you FRUSTRATED with the stalemate in Congress over climate legislation, and with climate bills that would balloon the size of government bureaucracies and heap new costs on consumers during a recession? Then TAKE ACTION and join state and local officials, business leaders and non-governmental organization leaders from across the nation for the Common Sense Climate Solutions Summit on January 6th. Read More...
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| Obama hobbled in fight against global warming |
| New York Times |
President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he has promised that the United States would lead the way toward a global agreement in Copenhagen next month to address the warming planet. Read More...
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| Natural gas surge, Is it a pipe dream? |
| Washington Times |
Climate change legislation in Congress appears to be based in part on the optimistic view that the United States has a plentiful supply of natural gas and would push businesses to switch to gas from coal, critics say, even before the supply has been secured. Read More...
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| How will clean energy legislation affect electricity prices? |
| CleanTechies Blog |
As debate heats up around the proposals for clean energy legislation in Congress, one of the main points of contention is the amount of money it will cost. Everyone wants to know how the average American household will be impacted by the respective energy bills in the House and the Senate. Read More...
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| Opinion: Climate bills are economic engine killers |
| Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
If you thought the debate about health care was surreal, then don’t throw away those 3-D glasses, because you’ll need them to have any shot at understanding the cap and trade bills now making their way through the corridors of Congress. Read More...
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| Cap-and-Trade creates more certainty…for higher unemployment |
| The Hill |
NPRA believes that both H.R. 2454 and S. 1733 would drive domestic gasoline and diesel production offshore, resulting in lost jobs for American workers and the outsourcing of our nation’s energy security to regions of the world that do not follow our already stringent environmental protections. Read More...
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| Buddies battle over climate change bill |
| Politico |
Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer and ranking GOP member Jim Inhofe traded fierce fire last week as their committee battled over whether to move forward with a climate change bill. Read More...
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| Emissions intensity falling globally |
| Environmental Leader |
Emissions intensity, the amount of carbon generated from fossil fuel use per unit of gross domestic product, fell globally in all but two years between 1994 and 2006, according to a World Bank study. Read More...
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| Climate bill faces hurdles in Senate: Dems deeply split |
| Washington Post |
The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legislation, there is almost no hope for passage. Read More...
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| Opinion: Cap-and-trade mirage |
| Washington Post |
Supporters of the climate bill passed by the House and the similar bill under consideration in the Senate -- including President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders -- say that the cap-and-trade approach would guarantee greenhouse-gas reductions. But this claim ignores the flaws inherent in both bills that would undermine even their weak emissions-reduction targets and would lock in climate degradation. Read More...
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| Forest study sees upside of climate change |
| Los Angeles Times |
While gradually warming global temperatures long have been seen as an environmental threat, a study released Monday suggested that the forests of the Pacific Northwest could see a substantial gain in productivity as the thermometer climbs. Read More...
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| Climate bill aids authors' states |
| Washington Times |
A little noticed Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows that the pending climate-change bill in Congress would particularly benefit the states represented by its primary authors. Read More...
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| Scientists rebut claim that man causes climate change |
| CNSNews.com |
As the world focused on President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a small group of determined scientists gathered in a Senate office building to present evidence backing their claim that climate change is caused not by man but by nature, and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but the hope for a greener planet. Read More...
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| Al Gore's first (and probably last) Q&A |
| Wall Street Journal |
Al Gore has been strangely reluctant to answer questions or debate the more controversial parts of his work. When asked about his film and a British lawsuit this past weekend, not only does Gore not answer the question, he gets the facts wrong. Read More...
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| Railroad debuts zero-emissions locomotive |
| Boston Herald |
Norfolk Southern Corp. unveiled a prototype of a 1,500-horsepower switching locomotive last week that relies exclusively on rechargeable batteries for power. Because there is no diesel engine, there are zero exhaust emissions. Read More...
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| Rules for clean energy projects in California |
| New York Times |
Regulators have a message for companies seeking to build solar power plants in the California desert: Don’t use much water, take good care of endangered species and make sure you have signed a deal with a utility before you submit an application to regulators. Read More...
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| Returning coal’s CO2 to the earth |
| New York Times |
American Electric Power, based in Columbus, and Alstom, a French firm, have spent more than $100 million to build a chemical plant next to the Mountaineer power plant. It strips the carbon dioxide from a 20-megawatt stream of exhaust gas — about 1.5 percent of Mountaineer’s output. Read More...
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| Senator says cap-and-tax bill Will "ease" energy costs |
| Washington Post |
Senate Democrats will initially devote 70 percent of the pollution allowances in their new climate measure to making it easier for people to pay their energy bills, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said in an interview to be aired Sunday on C-SPAN. Read More...
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| Senate wants big cut in pollution |
| Houston Chronicle/AP |
A Senate climate bill calls for a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020, deeper than the reductions mandated by the House but also includes stronger measures to try to avoid energy price spikes, according to a draft of the bill. Read More...
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| USFWS releases "Strategic Plan for Climate Change" |
| Salt Lake Tribune |
The USFWS's "Strategic Plan for Climate Change" focuses on three elements: reducing the impact of climate change on wildlife; finding ways to reduce levels of greenhouse gases; and working with conservation partners to provide the best answers for dealing with the issue on a national scale, but through local solutions. Read More...
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| Costly carbon cuts: Proposed strategies would hurt the most vulnerable |
| Washington Post |
In speech after rousing speech at the United Nations summit on global warming last week, politicians emphasized the need to protect the world's most vulnerable, who will be hit hardest by climate change. The rhetoric did little to disguise an awful truth: If we continue on our current path, we are likely to harm the world's poorest much more than we help them. Read More...
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| Boxer, Kerry set to introduce cap-and-trade bill |
| E&E News |
Ending some nine months of closed-door deliberations, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will release global warming legislation Wednesday that they hope will be the vehicle for broader Senate negotiations and an eventual conference with the House. Read More...
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| Opinion: Forecast: A cooling trend on climate change |
| Troy Media Corporation |
The United Nations is pulling out the “big guns” in an attempt to create a climate of urgency about climate change so that the meeting of over one hundred world leaders in Copenhagen some 75 days from now can produce an agreement to replace to failed Kyoto accord. Read More...
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| Earth approaching sunspot records |
| cjonline.com |
The sun's recent activity, or lack thereof, may be linked to the pleasant summer temperatures the midwest has enjoyed this year, said Charlie Perry, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence. Read More...
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| Green groups open 'climate war room' |
| Politico |
The cap-and-trade movement, spooked by the pounding health care reform took over the August break, is scrambling to persuade nervous Democrats they won’t suffer politically for taking another tough vote this year. Read More...
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| Senate delay on climate bill could stymie Copenhagen talks |
| New York Times/ClimateWire |
Climate change activists reacted sharply yesterday to indications from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that cap-and-trade legislation may have to wait until 2010, warning that the delay could derail international negotiations in Copenhagen. Read More...
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| Interior launches climate strategy |
| Washington Post |
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched the Obama administration's first coordinated response to the impacts of climate change, which he said would both monitor how global warming is altering the nation's landscape and help the country cope with those changes. Read More...
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| On climate, partners on Hill drift apart |
| Washington Post |
As climate change reemerges as an issue in the national policy debate, it may help define the legislative legacies of two men who once vied for the White House: Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.). Read More...
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| Report looks at the costs of personal carbon rationing |
| SustainableBusiness.com |
Seventy years after wartime rationing was introduced, the United Kingdom may need to look to rationing again--this time of carbon emissions rather than food--warns a new report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Read More...
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| Global warming could forestall ice age |
| New York Times |
The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Read More...
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| Editor takes Congress to task on cap-and-trade |
| Reuters/Press Release |
If the government has its way, that energy will soon make metalworking applications more expensive and will ultimately affect costs all the way through the supply chain, down to the prices paid by consumers, says Fabricating & Metalworking editor Mike Riley. Read More...
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| Senators spend recess fine-tuning messages on cap and trade |
| New York Times/ClimateWire |
While a handful of Senate staffers spent the August recess sequestered on Capitol Hill writing a giant energy and climate bill, senators who will debate the legislation were speaking at town halls and in the media in efforts to strengthen support -- or opposition -- to the sweeping package. Read More...
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| Cap and trade or $2 trillion tax? |
| Big Sky Business Journal |
Industry representatives from refineries, utilities, transportation companies and manufacturers, as well as agriculture, spoke with a unified voice last week to say that a prospective new law in Congress commonly being referred to as “cap and trade” means higher production costs for every one producing anything. Read More...
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| EPA carbon dioxide rules on the move |
| Troutman Sanders |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed draft rules for imposing the first-ever greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act and has submitted those rules to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review. Read More...
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| New technology bipasses the burning of coal |
| New York Times/ClimateWire |
"Direct carbon" fuel cells efficiently produce electricity straight from the carbon source. This technology has the potential of making electricity by using less than half the coal burned today and sharply reducing the costs of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from the fuel. Read More...
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| Carbon tax better: Clinton official |
| The Age |
Trading of emission permits around the world will become a financial rort that fails to reduce carbon emissions - and will ultimately be scrapped in favour of a simple carbon tax, a former senior official in the Clinton administration has forecast. Read More...
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| Study: Candle-lit dinners add to pollution |
| Washington Times |
Holy smokes. Grab the fire hose. Somebody notify Al Gore and maybe Ralph Nader. Candle-lit dinners -- with the flickering flames, those delicate glows -- are an unrecognized source of indoor air pollution. Read More...
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| China mulls climate resolution |
| Wall Street Journal/AP |
China's top legislature will consider a draft resolution on climate change next week, state media said, after a report by the country's policy experts said the government should take action so the country's carbon dioxide emissions peak around 2030. Read More...
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| 'Energy citizens' take aim at climate legislation |
| New York Times/Greenwire |
A coalition of industry groups and conservative advocacy organizations will launch a "grass roots" campaign next week aimed at urging the Senate to make business-friendly changes to the House-passed energy and climate bill. Read More...
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| Business owners weary of cap and trade |
| Inc.com |
While much of the debate in Washington lately has centered around health-care reform, some business groups remain concerned about cap and trade, which they say could place an unnecessary burden on U.S. companies. Read More...
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| New economic study of Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill |
| Heritage Foundation |
The idea behind cap and trade is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by putting a price on the right to emit carbon and other greenhouse gases on businesses. Since 85 percent of America’s energy needs are met through carbon-emitting fossil fuels, cap and trade would be a massive tax on energy consumption if enacted. Read More...
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| Support for the idea of global warming is slipping |
| Examiner.com |
The American public has been inundated with people the likes of Vice President Al Gore flying around the country addressing the issue of global warming for years. A new poll released by Gallup shows that the numbers of people supporting the environmentalist rhetoric is slipping. Read More...
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| Senators issue warning on climate bill |
| Green Inc. |
A group of 10 moderate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying that they will not support any domestic climate change bill that did not protect American industries from competition from countries that did not impose similar restraints on climate-altering gases. Read More...
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| Political climate for energy policies cools |
| Las Vegas Review-Journal |
This week's National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 will bring a parade of celebrated public policy experts discuss greening the country's economy. But their policy prescriptions could face serious headwinds from changing public opinions. Read More...
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| Groups push for more methane projects in climate bill |
| ClimateWire |
Major climate legislation moving through Congress falls short in ensuring that the United States has an adequate supply of carbon offsets to meet mandatory emission cuts, a group of well-funded businesses and organizations says in a new letter to Capitol Hill lawmakers. Read More...
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| India tells Clinton: No carbon cuts |
| Washington Times |
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton struggled Sunday to find a silver lining in India's rejection of legally binding carbon-dioxide-emissions reductions, saying a plan can be devised to fight climate change and boost India's economic development at the same time. Read More...
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| Roundtable applauds the Blue Dog Coalition's Energy Principles |
| Western Business Roundtable |
Read the July 24, 2009, letter the Western Business Roundtable sent to members of the Congressional Blue Dog Coalition, applauding leadership the Coalition demonstrated in their Energy Priniciples. In the letter, the Roundtable also goes on to outline the three basic principles of strong domestic energy policy.� Read More...
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| U.S. climate report assailed |
| New York Times |
The new federal report on climate change gets a withering critique from Roger Pielke Jr., who says that it misrepresents his own research and that it wrongly concludes that climate change is already responsible for an increase in damages from natural disasters. Read More...
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| Study: U.S. technology key to China and climate |
| Associated Press |
Finding an economical way to capture carbon dioxide from existing coal burning power plants is key to getting China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as well as for U.S. efforts to combat global warming, says a study released Friday. Read More...
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| Skepticism on warming |
| Denver Daily News |
Global warming skeptics are pointing to a recent opinion poll indicating that few Americans blame humans for global warming. The poll is being cited by entities who oppose federal legislation imposing madatory cap-and-trade system for CO2. The Western Business Roundtable calls the proposed regulations “burdensome,” and states they would have a negative economic impact on Americans, resulting in higher energy costs. Read More...
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| Study: Threat from West Antarctica less than previously believed |
| University of Bristol |
The potential contribution to sea level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have been greatly overestimated, according to a new study published in the journal Science. Scientists estimate global sea level would rise 3.3 metres, not five or six, as previously thought. The Atlantic and Pacific seaboards of the US, even in the case of a partial collapse, would experience the largest increases, threatening cities such as New York, Washington DC and San Francisco. Read More...
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| Sea level threat revised |
| Washington Times |
Since climate change fears first gripped the globe, tourists have flocked to the Maldives to enjoy the islands' spectacular vistas before they vanish. Do they really need to rush? Read More...
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| What if global-warming fears are overblown? |
| CNNMoney.com/FORTUNE |
With Congress about to take up sweeping climate-change legislation, expect to hear more in coming weeks from John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at University of Alabama-Huntsville. Read More...
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| The Top 10 green living myths |
| Christian Science Monitor |
The web site Climate Culture has released a list of the 2009 Top Green Myths, things that you do – or don’t do – because you’ve read or been told they’re good or bad for the environment. Surprisingly, they may or may not be producing the green results you’re expecting. Read More...
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| Document is critical of EPA on clean air |
| New York Times |
An internal government memorandum that came to light on Tuesday challenged the scientific and economic basis of a proposed Environmental Protection Agency finding that climate-altering gases are a threat to human health and welfare. Read More...
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| U.S. curbs use of Species Act in protecting polar bear |
| New York Times |
The Obama administration said Friday that it would retain a wildlife rule issued in the last days of the Bush administration that says the government cannot invoke the Endangered Species Act to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases threatening the polar bear and its habitat. Read More...
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| Time to ditch the climate consensus: Hulme |
| The Register |
Just two years ago, Mike Hulme would have been about the last person you'd expect to hear criticising conventional climate change wisdom. Back then, he was the founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, an organisation so revered by environmentalists that it could be mistaken for the academic wing of the green movement. Read More...
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| Is algae the biofuel of the future? |
| Scientific American/Greenwire |
There are some signs that the algae-based fuel industry might be ready to bloom. One of the nascent industry's biggest and most well-heeled players, Sapphire Energy, announced last week that it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011, double its initial estimates. Read More...
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