Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
A brief Politico article last week titled "Time for a Price Collar on Carbon" argued that a price ceiling should be included in the Senate version of climate legislation as a way to better ensure the bill's passage. While the...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The ever quotable climate change skeptic Rep. Joe Barton has dismissed cap and trade legislation as "dead" before arrival and has instead decided to launch his own version of climate change legislation. The Barton plan, with an additional 200+ amendments waiting...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
A recent Gallup poll survey conducted on the priorities for Americans with respect to the economy, energy production, and the environment has concluded that "there is little question that the current economic crisis poses a significant challenge for the environmental...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Sunflower Electric Power Corporation's plan to take possession of 200MW of the 1400MW Holcomb supercritical coal-fired power facility in southwest Kansas comes with significant economic risk that will ultimately be borne by their rate-payers. These risks include higher construction, credit, and...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
It is often asserted that a carbon tax would be simpler, more transparent, and have fewer special provisions, accommodations, or loopholes than a cap and trade system. The fallacy, however, is to compare a "real-world" cap and trade design with...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On January 15th the US Climate Action Partnership, a group of 26 major industry players and 5NGOs (including NRDC), released its Blueprint for Legislative Action on climate change -- a document designed to provide Congress with a consensus approach to...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
While President-elect Obama's $775bln economic stimulus plan should be applauded for including many important provisions for green jobs over the next three years, his messaging on why green jobs are a critical component to our economic recovery seems to be...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The following is a list of 10 reasons why enacting a "cap, invest now and recover" strategy, that uses revenues from future carbon auctions to finance low carbon initiatives today, should be passed in 2009 and can provide the additional stimulus needed to help re-power the US economy....
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Many are now arguing that the fight to limit climate change is being upended by the global economic slowdown. As Elizabeth Rosenthal's NYT article Economic Slump May Limit Moves on Clean Energy correctly points out, with the threat of a global recession taking...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
With the fallout from the credit crisis now spreading from the banking sector to the cash starved industrial sector, pressure is now building to provide bailout funding to the domestic auto sector as a way to help secure its economic...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The Philadelphia Phillies won their first world series since my favorite player of all time Mike Schmidt played third base for the team nearly 30 years ago. Looking back on the teams' success, I am struck that one of the...
