Posted by Andy Stevenson in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
One of the key findings from a new NRDC climate policy study is that policies to support CO2 capture and sequestration at power plants and industrial facilities could also help recover almost 37 billion barrels of stranded domestic oil by 2050. This increase...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
In a recent WSJ article entitled "Cap and Trade: Recipe for Disaster", Louisiana State University economist Joseph Mason outlines his concerns that special interests have already taken control of the European carbon markets and that the US carbon markets are...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
In an NYT op-ed column this past week titled "The Greenback Effect," Warren Buffett voiced his concern that unchecked government spending by Congress is "spewing a potentially damaging substance into our economy" known as "greenback emissions". According to Mr. Buffett...
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...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The soon to be former Governor Sarah Palin's "plan" to keep America addicted to fossil fuels and to abandon the President's cap and trade program for carbon pollution is not only a disastrous climate policy, it is even worse as...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
While Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner's testimony on Friday shed little new light on how the administration plans to regulate the financial derivatives markets, a bill introduced in the Senate earlier in the week by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Olympia...
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...
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...
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...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
In addition to providing meaningful guidelines for the carbon trading markets, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) should be commended for looking to close many of the regulatory loopholes used by speculators to manipulate energy prices...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Charles River's Associates (CRA) released yet another impact assessment on the costs of climate change this week and despite every ill conceived parlor trick they could think of, they still managed to conclude that cap and trade policy will have...
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's recent article "Show Us the Ball" claims that a carbon tax would not only be simpler and more transparent, but have fewer special provisions, accommodations, or loopholes than a cap and trade system. The...
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 , 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 Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
In their LA Times article "The Green Bubble Has Burst" Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger make two broad claims about the economics of the energy / climate change debate. The first is their assertion that "Drill baby drill" had anything...
