Tag: Carbon Emissions - Page 2
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App Reveals Most Fuel Efficient Flights On Expedia
We're all used to weighing up factors like price and travel time when we book flights. But what about fuel efficiency or emissions? A new app aims to change all this.
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Vancouver Trials Recycled Plastic Asphalt
The city's engineering department came up with a special mixing process that utilizes post-consumer plastic in asphalt.
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New York State Revised Fracking Rules May Come Before End of Year
This would mean the revised rules would come without the promised reassessment of the health impacts of fracking.
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EPA Threatened With Lawsuit to Force Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Institute for Policy Integrity hopes to force EPA's hand in mandating a cap on greenhouse gas emissions by using the Clean Air Act.
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Study Links Traffic Pollution Exposure to Autism
New research suggests that exposure to traffic fumes is linked to one of the most pressing health issues of our day.
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Corporations Can Push a Low Carbon Economy, But They Can Only Do So Much
From GE's purchase of electric vehicles to Google's investments in clean energy, corporations are helping launch a low carbon future. But there are limits to what they can achieve.
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Climate Change Hitting Europe Hard, Going To Get Worse
A new report from the European Environment Agency once again reveals the dangerous folly of ignoring climate change.
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1.4 Million Megawatts of Coal Power Plants Currently Being Developed Globally
Three quarters of these are in India and China, though a surprising amount are still being proposed in the United States.
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Exxon Is Actually Entirely Correct: A Carbon Tax is Better Than Cap-and-Trade
I'm actually kind of giddy over all the recent talk of the virtues of a carbon tax, versus those of cap-and-trade.
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California's New Cap-and-Trade Emissions Trading Program is Second Largest in World
Results of the first auction of pollution permits will be announced next Monday.
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Global CO2 Emissions Set New Record High in 2011, German Data Shows
China's national emissions are now 50% higher than those of the United States, even though China's per capita emissions are far lower.
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Why Bipartisanship Might Destroy the Planet
A climate of compromise is all well and good. But the climate doesn't compromise.
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Keeping Warming Below 4°C Rise Requires 400% Increase in Decarbonization
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers is unambiguous: We are hugely off track in decarbonizing the economy and are heading straight past 4°C temperature rise.
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What Can the GOP Offer the Green Movement?
Today brings loud cheers from Democrats, and soul searching for Republicans. What could this mean for environmentalism?
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High CO2 Levels Indoors Impair Cognition
Even with ventilation systems that meet current standards, indoor CO2 can rise to levels that reduces mental performance, a new report finds.
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How Much Carbon Dioxide is Emitted on Your Block? Hestia Knows
The Hestia project allows researchers to map CO2 emissions building-by-building and block-by-block.
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Indonesian Palm Oil Plantation Expansion to Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Canada by 2020
A new study paints another bleak picture of the impact of the palm oil industry in Indonesia.
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Recessions Cannot Save Us From Climate Change
Economic growth leads to rising emissions, but a contraction of the economy does not cause comparable CO2 cuts. What are the implications for the environmental movement?
