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15/6/2013
Climate scientist James Hansen -- now retired and free from the constraints of his role at NASA -- last night promoted a
carbon tax as the most effective way to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a keynote address before Colorado ...
25/5/2013
President Barack Obama began his second term with a ringing pledge to tackle climate change — saying that “the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”
Four months later, everyone’s still ...
6/5/2013
Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists.
"The main ...
6/5/2013
After working 37 years in the coal mines of West Virginia, Ronny Justice punctuates his sentences with coughs. He lost his job a year ago, leaving him without health insurance just as he’s battling the early stages of black-lung ...
1/5/2013
[Editor's note: With voting day just over two weeks away, we look back on big issues that have driven debate in our province during the last 12 years of BC Liberal governance. What did B.C.'s leaders and opposition parties say and do on these ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
13/4/2013
An NDP plan to expand the
carbon tax to cover vented
oil and gas emissions will damage the natural gas industry while raising little new revenue, industry analysts said Friday.Low natural gas prices mean the industry is struggling to ...
8/4/2013
A proposal to increase Alberta’s
carbon levy to $40 per tonne and target a 40 per cent cut in
carbon emissions from big emitters could affect the viability of thermal
oilsands projects, a Calgary investment bank warns.
But FirstEnergy ...
8/4/2013
Alberta's energy industry is pushing for
carbon taxes half as high as what government has proposed, with
oil sands companies lobbying for less stringent goals that would leave the province short of meeting its emissions goals.
The ...
6/4/2013
Thursday's report that the Alberta government will ramp up the stringency of its provincial climate change policy was almost certainly motivated at least in part by concerns over pipeline approval.If so, it wouldn't be the first time that ...
23/3/2013
The Senate went on record against imposing
taxes on industrial
carbon emissions in a pair of symbolic votes Friday, providing clear evidence that major climate change legislation lacks political traction.
Lawmakers voted 41-58 to reject ...
18/3/2013
The latest target of the unconventional
oil craze is California, specifically the Monterey Shale in southern California (see map). Will California become the next North Dakota? Let us ponder.
Oil in California is nothing new - it`s the ...
15/3/2013
With few options available for financing his clean-energy ambitions, President Obama on Friday will propose diverting $2 billion in revenue from federal
oil and gas leases over the next decade to pay for research on advanced vehicles, White House ...
13/3/2013
The
oil industry, conservative groups and House GOP lawmakers will ramp up opposition to proposals that would strip industry
tax breaks and impose
taxes on industrial
carbon emissions.
The conservative House Republican Study Committee ...
12/3/2013
The surprising message of the State Department's latest Keystone review—that the decision whether to approve the disputed pipeline won't have much effect on the environment—can be traced to the way the agency framed the report.The study ...
7/3/2013
Sally Jewell, President Obama’s nominee for interior secretary, deflected many of the questions she faced at her confirmation hearing Thursday but made clear she supports expanded
oil and gas development on public lands and waters, including ...
5/3/2013
China will wait until after this year to introduce a
tax on
carbon, deferring to concern that economic growth might suffer, a government researcher said.
The nation eventually expects to introduce a levy of 5 yuan to 10 yuan (80 cents to ...
24/2/2013
Alberta’s provincial government is trying to burnish its image on climate change as top Canadian officials make the case for U.S. approval of the Keystone XL
oil sands pipeline.
“Even though we have had a presence here for some time, I ...
18/2/2013
After much back and forth, James E. Hansen and I had agreed on a date to meet. Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is the scientist most closely associated with climate change activists like Bill McKibben, who has ...
17/2/2013
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she plans to move a comprehensive climate bill through her committee and to the floor by this summer.
Boxer called the bill, sponsored by Sen. ...
16/2/2013
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a sweeping climate change bill Feb. 14 that would require several thousand coal,
oil, and gas
producers to pay a $20-per-ton
carbon fee, which the two senators touted as a ...
15/2/2013
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) unveiled ambitious climate and energy legislation on Thursday. In our current sclerotic political environment, it has pretty much zero chance of passing in the Senate and negative chance ...
14/2/2013
Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday put her political muscle behind a bill that would
tax carbon and methane emissions linked to global warming and use the money for consumer rebates and to finance a raft of new clean-energy projects.
The ...
13/2/2013
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress to pass sweeping "market-based" climate legislation - code for a cap-and-trade system or a
carbon tax - and threatened to regulate aggressively if it did not.
In his annual State of the Union ...
3/2/2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a
tax on
carbon-dioxide emissions. The
oil-sands industry, Canada’s fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he’s out of step.
The contradiction of an industry ...