The Week of May 8th, 2009

Frances Beinecke is the first of eight environmental experts featured on the website of Yale Environment 360 discussing the merits of a cap-and-trade system versus a carbon tax... On NPR's Marketplace David Doniger explains that the success of cap-and-trade will depend partially on properly pricing cap-and-trade CO2 permits... Peter Lehner praises the New York Governor's office for pledging to ditch bottled water in the Albany Times Union; Peter was also mentioned in a New York Times article on the subject... Julia Bovey has the opening and closing quotes in a USA Today article exploring the role celebrities play in popularizing environmental issues...Nathanael Greene emphasized the importance of considering land use when evaluating ethanol's environmental impact on NPR's Marketplace and spoke on the same topic on CNet.com, in the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and in the Guardian (UK) among others... Reuters  profiles NRDC's first annual growing green awards in detail... Louisa Willcox warns that premature delisting of the grey wolves may reverse what could have been a conservation success story in the Christian Science Monitor's Light Green Blog...