Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
An American Petroleum Institute study released this past week makes three rather deceptive claims about the impacts of climate change policy on the oil refinery industry in the US. The first claim is that legislation to cap carbon emissions will cause a large...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
While the Senate does appear to support the scientific and environmental need to put a cap on our carbon emissions, some Senators remain fearful that the “trading” portion of the cap and trade bill will just be creating another derivatives...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
As the Senate begins to weigh in on the climate debate with its own version of climate bill, the issue of carbon market oversight still remains a major concern to many members. The final bill that passed through the House...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
At 70 feet across, Deutsche Bank Asset Management's new "carbon counter" billboard is advertised as the world's first real-time calculator of global greenhouse gas emissions. This billboard, together with its web-based counterpart, were created as a way to not only bring...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The coal lobby can't catch a break these days. First utilities reduce coal demand in favor of increasing purchases of cheap natural gas, then the EPA proposes its endangerment finding on carbon dioxide pollution, then mountaintop removal gets called into account...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The EIA has just released its forecast for global carbon emissions through the year 2030 and it's not pretty. Without meaningful efforts to reduce the path of our carbon emissions, global carbon dioxide pollution is expected to increase 39% over...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Congress is drafting legislation that will create a multi-trillion dollar market for carbon allowances is expected to attract a great deal of attention as the climate policy debate begins to unfold. We have the tools to make sure that carbon...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Old Dominion Electric Power Corporation's plan to build a 1,500MW supercritical pulverized coal-fired power facility in Dendron, Virginia comes with significant economic risk that can raise the "expected" cost of this facility by tens of billions of dollars over time. Costs...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
While the coal industry has been very receptive to meeting the needs of a large coal-to-liquids (CTL) industry in the United States, it seems unclear how they would actually service these new customers with domestic coal supplies at reasonable prices....continued→
