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Carbon Bubble a Turning Point for Climate Change Action?
If the prospect of serious limits on greenhouse gas emissions translates into a real risk of stranded assets for fossil fuel companies, carbon may become the next housing bubble.[read more]
How Is Expanding Oil and Gas Production Consistent with Addressing Climate Change?
An all-of-the-above approach to energy encompassing oil and gas, along with renewables, carbon sequestration, nuclear power and efficiency is fully consistent with addressing climate change.[read more]
Energy Efficiency or Dirty Digital Footprints? Looking at "Green" Websites' Energy Use
dirty data?
Most people think the web is a green medium, but the average website has a carbon footprint similar to a book or a newspaper. A 2011 analysis suggests IT is responsible for two to four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.[read more]
The Newest Hybrid Cars to Reduce Environmental Impact
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While cars are an everyday necessity and convenience, they’re not doing the environment any favors. Here we’ll focus on some of the hybrids and electric vehicles that either greatly reduce or eliminate fuel emissions altogether.[read more]
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: EPA Cries Foul on Keystone XL & Gov't Forecasts Fall Short
Why worry about a little bit of extra greenhouse gas emissions--on the order of about 19 million metric tons annually, according to EPA estimates--from tar sands? Why indeed.[read more]
EPA Slams State Department's Draft Impact Statement For Keystone XL
tar sands
On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”[read more]
Carbon Emissions and the Future of Cars and Light Trucks
Can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions from running our cars and light trucks by 80 percent by 2050? Yes, but it will be difficult, and it can only happen with a set of strong, sustained, and adaptive public policies.[read more]
Energy From Trash: How To Curb Carbon Pollution With Junk
landfill energy harvesting
Another alternative waste management option that America has not significantly utilized but that could help stem the flow of waste, and thus pollution emissions, in our country: energy-from-waste, or EfW, facilities.[read more]
U.S. Pledges Climate Change Cooperation with China and Japan
international climate cooperation
John Kerry made climate change a centerpiece of his first Asia tour as Secretary of State over the weekend, signing agreements with both Japan and China for cooperation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.[read more]
New Data Reveals U.S. Coal Use Rising Again
W. Va coal plant
New data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration reveals a troubling trend: Coal-fired power generation, and its associated greenhouse gas emissions, were on the rise as 2012 came to an end.[read more]
Climate Attribution Alchemy
climate and extreme weather data
In a paper just out in the journal Climate Dynamics, a research team claims to have found a signal of greenhouse gas emissions on global tropical cyclone behavior.[read more]
LA Off Coal by 2025 at the Latest
LA's projected emissions
Today the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Board unanimously approved its plan to get off of coal by 2025 and replace it with cleaner energy.[read more]
China Eyes a Carbon Tax
A senior official from China’s Ministry of Finance recently described plans for a national carbon tax as part of a new package of environmental protection taxes.[read more]
EU Industry and Biofuels for Sustainable Transport
A sustainability initiative, called “Leaders of Sustainable Biofuels”, has been created in order to support the development of second generation biofuels in the European Union.[read more]
Thawing of Siberian Permafrost Could Speed Up Cimate Change
Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5C could see permafrost thaw over a large area of Siberia.[read more]
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