Tag: Carbon Emissions - Page 12
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Both India & China Enacting Carbon Trading Programs
A laborer is seen working at a deisel powered crusher infont of a wind turbine. This is a 17.5 MW wind project, consisting of eighteen wind farm sites in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka. The eighteen sites have been
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Natural Gas From Fracking Emissions Can Double Those From Coal
Here's the second study of the year showing that the greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning natural gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing are much higher than
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Battle Over Clean Air Act Behind Looming Government Shutdown
It should be clear to anyone capable of abstract thought that the looming 'government shutdown' is less a battle over spending cuts than one over political ideologies. Multiple reports have been trickling out
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House Votes Yes For Polluters, No To A Clean Environment For The American People
The Senate voted against this yesterday: As expected, the House of Representatives voted yesterday (255-172) to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act--something which was
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Work-Based Carbon Trading Slashes Employee Emissions
Whether it is turning work-based emissions savings into community donations, or channeling money from turning off the lights in London into turning on solar in Africa, we've seen some novel
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House Votes To Deny Climate Change Causes Again, While Senate Supports EPA Authority on Emissions
Alice in Wonderland on the Potomac continues in full force, the sane news first:
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Obama Resurrects Carbon Offsets (Nobody Says Thanks)
Carbon offsets have not exactly gone away—take Google's announcement in the summer of last year that it would offset 45,000 homes using carbon credits from landfill waste as a
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Mangroves Are World's Most Carbon-Rich Tropical Forests & They've Disappearing Fast
We've known that the world's mangroves are in decline, with 30-50% of them being cleared in the past half century and 16% of them currently threatened. Now new research shows that mangroves
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Save Money for Your Boss. Save Money for Your Community. (Video)
I already got excited about the Off-On program's efforts to turn energy savings in England into money for solar in Africa, and posted a video on how turning out lights in London raised money for solar in Kenya. In many ways it is
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Plug In! First Electric Motorcycle Charging Stations in Barcelona
The other day, coming back from the beach, I saw some strange looking parking icons painted on the street; motorbikes with a plug! And indeed it seems to be happening now, Barcelona has launched its first electric
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Fox News is Not Carbon Neutral, No Matter What Rupert Murdoch Says
I realize that this mini-controversy has largely come and gone -- the one in which Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Fox News' parent company News Corp, declared it 'carbon neutral' -- but there are still reports popping up
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Airplanes' Contrails Cause Far More Warming Than Their Carbon Emissions, But...
photo: marya/Creative Commons Radiative forcing has been on TreeHugger's radar for a while, and after finding out about this next study it'll be on your's too: According to research by the DLR German Aerospace Center, airplane contrails have a much,
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European Union to Ban Gas Fueled Vehicles by 2050
If you´ve ever wondered what a continent would look like without vehicles burning fossil fuels, it may only be four more decades before you see it firsthand. The European Commission, an executive branch of the EU, put forth an
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100% Renewable Energy By 2050 Is Possible - Here's How We Can Do It
We recently examined how Australia can meet 100% of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020. Here we will examine how that goal can be
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Eco-Driving, Like Hypermiling, Saves Real Bucks
Fiat is a big proponent of eco-driving, claiming it could be a great and inexpensive way to reduce carbon emissions from transport. Riding a bike would be an even better way, but while we wait for more people to decide
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Do You Trust Corporate Emission Reduction Claims? No One in Britain Does
The pace of publicity for corporate carbon emission reductions may have slowed in the past year but that doesn't mean people believe the hype any more, at least in the UK. Based on a survey by Carbon Trust, a
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Small-Scale Hydropower's Low Eco-Impact Overrated
Large scale hydropower rightly riles environmentalists and often social justice activists as well. In comparison small scale hydro, which doesn't require the large dams or even dams at all,
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Climate Change Emergency: Time to Slam on the Brakes
Global warming is an increasingly urgent problem. The urgency isn't obvious because a large amount of warming is being delayed. But some of the latest
