Tag: Carbon Dioxide - Page 7
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Obama's New Emission Standard Will Save 1.8 Billion Barrels of Oil by 2016
And now it's official: there's a brand new national auto emission standard in effect, which will force all cars to get an average of 35.5 MPG when sold in 2016. We broke the news earlier today that Obama made the important
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Eat Local, Drink Local Beer
Image via Lightning Labels Blog Dear Pablo: My favorite beer comes from Germany and I am concerned about the environmental impact. Am I an eco-villain or does "eat local" not apply to beer?While "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
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Fred Krupp at the World Innovation Forum: Cap and Trade will Drive Eco-innovation
Attendees from over twenty countries filled the Nokia Theater in NYC this past week to hear speakers on a range of topics, including
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Climate Change Causing Ocean Dead Zones to Grow
It's not breaking news - we've been talking about the dead zones of our oceans expanding
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Corn Ethanol Worse than Oil? California Rules Yes
In what would certainly be a huge blow to the US' formidable corn-ethanol industry, the California Air Resources Board is readying a report that says ethanol is worse than oil in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. According
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It's Official: EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Endanger Public Health
News broke earlier today that the EPA was getting ready to make its long awaited announcement--that carbon dioxide is a threat to human health. Well, the moment has come, and now it's official: the EPA has found that CO2 and
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Brazil's New Plan to Fight Climate Change: Coal and Oil Companies Must Plant Trees
In an unusual plan to combat climate change, the Brazilian government will require coal and oil companies to plant thousands of trees in order to offset their carbon emissions. If the companies don't comply? They lose
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up 1.4% in 2007, Says EPA Report
Emissions in the US keep on risin', according to the EPA's new Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report. Greenhouse gas emissions totaled 7,150,000,000 tons in 2007, showing a 1.4% increase from 2006—bringing the overall rise from
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Maryland to Use $70 Million of Climate Revenue for Tax Rebates
The state of Maryland has announced that it plans on using the $70 million it makes from charging utilities for carbon emissions to aid lower income families—and in doing so, it's breaking from the 9 other states participating in
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Concept: CO2 Scrubber Wrist Watch
With discussion of using big-ass artificial trees to scrub-a-dub-dub CO2 from the atmosphere, here comes a little item for each of us to use: eCO2 is an athletic wrist watch, powered by kinetic energy, aiming to reduce individual carbon footprints by
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Should I Cash In On My Clunker?
I have gotten many questions like this and recent political
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Carbonfund.org Reforestation Project Takes Major Step in Reducing Global Warming Emissions
Photo via: Brion V. Carbonfund.org's Tensas National Wildlife Refuge Reforestation Project has just became the first reforestation carbon offset project in North America to achieve dual validation by the Rainforest Alliance to the Voluntary Carbon
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EPA's CO2 Scheme: the Most Ambitious Regulation Challenge in History?
With the EPA moving ever closer to flat out declaring CO2 as a pollutant that's dangerous to public health, the idea of the regulatory mess the agency will have on its hands is becoming clearer and clearer. Heavy industry, vehicle
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Australia's Carbon Cap System Will Cost Coal Companies $3.5 Billion
It's bad news for Australia's coal industry, and good news for all those concerned about climate change: the country's proposed cap and trade system will hit big coal the hardest. The carbon cap will cost the coal industry a hefty 5
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The Obama Cap and Trade Debate Rages On
Nobody thought this was going to be easy—how to best launch a carbon cap and trade system is one of the most contentious issues on the table right now. And predictably, things are already getting messy. 28 senators have already
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Taxing Foreign Companies for CO2 Emissions: American Protectionism?
Yesterday, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu told a congressional panel that they should consider taxing imported goods from foreign companies that don't try to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. China's top climate negotiator immediately
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Hey Obama - Check Out the Carbon Cap and Trade Already Up and Running in Your Own Backyard
With the buckets of controversy and a parade of protesting senators swirling around Obama's proposed carbon cap and trade system, it's easy to forget there's already a pioneering carbon cap and trade system already set up right
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Is the IPCC Assessment on Global Climate Change Wrong?
Image via Global Warming Art Dear Pablo: I've heard that we don't have enough remaining fossil fuels available to burn in order to reach the carbon dioxide concentrations that the IPCC scientists are predicting. What would happen to the concentration of
