Tag: Carbon Dioxide - Page 6
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Was Cash for Clunkers Good for Anything?
The dust stirred up by Cash for Clunkers has finally settled: the $3 billion government program closed up shop weeks, if not months, ahead of schedule due to its extraordinary popularity. In its wake, it spawned another rebate program,
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Cutting Saturday Postal Delivery Would Reduce GHG Emissions
Dear Pablo: I have heard that members of Congress are considering cutting the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Saturday delivery in order to cut costs. In addition to saving money, I imagine that it would cut pollution as
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Carbon Traders Arrested for Tax Fraud in London
Seven carbon traders were arrested outside of London yesterday, on the charge that they sold huge numbers of carbon permits then dodged the taxes that should have been paid on them. Green Inc. reports that the alleged fraudsters ripped
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Bad News for Cap and Trade Foes: Europe's Emissions Trading System WORKS
It's one of the most common lines you hear from cap and trade opponents: "Well, just look at Europe." You see, the European Union Emissions Trading System was long thought to be a spectacular failure. It initially allowed utility
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Carbon Prices Falling Fast in Northeast US Cap and Trade
Since 76% of Americans don't even know what cap and trade is, I'm willing to bet that just as many aren't aware that there's a cap and trade system operating in their own backyard. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative requires
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On Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill, Aren't We Forgetting Something?
Constructing a new home is no simple task. Negotiating contractors, laborers, electricians, plumbers, landscapers, and designers is a massive effort in coordination. Working in concert makes attention to detail critical,
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Are Paper Napkins More Environmentally Friendly?
Image Source: Francesca Tronchin Dear Pablo: With the energy and water used in washing and drying, isn't it actually more environmentally friendly to use paper napkins instead of cotton?Cloth napkins not only use water in washing and a lot of energy in
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Wine In A Box: The Greenest Way To Drink?
Image credit: George Ross, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: I visited a winery called La Delizia located in Casarsa de la Delizia, north of Venice in Italy. They have started selling 3 litre boxed wines at US retail outlets. I'd like to
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Artificial Trees: Could They be Better Than the Real Thing?
Fake plants generally don't give off huge environmental benefits—especially when they're the plastic kind that just barely cheer up offices and waiting rooms. But a synthetic tree now in development may be better for the
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Fungus from WWII + Elephant Dung = Cheaper, Better Biofuels?
You know what they say about wartime fungi and elephant dung. You can't have a--okay, so as far as I know, nobody has ever said anything about the pair. But that could change soon; people might be talking about how both can help churn
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General Motors Release LPG Hybrid Car - The Spark. In India.
We've heard much about the Tata Nano, India's $2,000 car that has over 200,000 Indians lining up to own one. We've also well aware that General Motors USA has filed for bankruptcy, although many of its international subsidiaries, like in China,
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Coal Becomes West Virginia's State Rock
West Virginia sure loves coal--first it was featured there in a hilarious, old timey ringtone, and now they've gone and made it their state rock. Yes, states can have 'state rocks', evidently--and why not?
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Big Oil to Become Big Biofuels?
For a long time, Big Oil got along with ethanol producers like, well, oil and water. But recently, it seems like the two industries have not only begun to learn how to play nice, but form business alliances. Oil companies are showing
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Lifting the Online Poker Ban Could Cause a CO2 Emissions Boom
Right now, online gambling is technically illegal in the United States—a ban was put in place by Congress in 2006. But you probably know somebody who does it anyways, using one of the still-popular websites operated off US
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White Roofs to Sweep the World, Fight Climate Change
It's long been known that white roofs reflect more heat back into space, reducing the amount of electricity used for A/C and thus drastically cutting down on energy consumption. Some estimates say they save billions of
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Canada Could Join Forces with US for Multinational Cap and Trade
Looks like all that climate legislatin' going on in the US right now is contagious--Canada has just announced that it will likely follow suit and move towards carbon cutting measures of its own. It will probably pursue a cap and
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First Look at the Next Global Climate Treaty
And we're off. While US congressmen are battling over the Democrats' climate bill stateside, the United Nations took the first step in creating an international accord by drafting a brand new climate treaty. The targets for
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2008 US Carbon Emissions Were Lowest in 8 Years
According to a new report from the US Department of Energy, carbon emissions in 2008 fell to the lowest levels in eight years, since 2001. The reason for the decline in carbon? None other than the recession
