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Baard's Coal to Liquids Facility Does Not Deserve A $2.3bln Loan Guarantee

January 29, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
baard, capandinvest, capandtrade, carbonrisk, coaltoliquids, economicstimulus, markettransformation

Baard Energy has announced that it is seeking $2.3bln in government guaranteed low interest rate loans from the Department of Energy to help construct a new $6bln coal to liquids fuel plant in Wellsville, Ohio. This proposal should be viewed...

Getting Carbon Trading Regulation Right

January 21, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
capandinvest, capandtrade, carbontrading, markettransformation, regulatingmarkets

America needs strong climate policy that will boost the economy and reduce dangerous global warming pollution. A key piece of successful climate legislation will be a "cap and invest" system that allows non-polluting companies to trade carbon credits on the...