The Wall Street Journal reported last week on a new effort from the New York Mercantile Exchange, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Credit Suisse to create an exchange for trading carbon emissions. They’re calling it “The Green Exchange,” and it is set to start up at the beginning of 2009.
According the article, “The new [...]
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Republicans for Environmental Protection is an organization that you may not have heard of, but should start paying attention to. It’s a group of conservation-minded Republicans who are looking for conservative, market-oriented ways to help the environment, and it has been growing in visibility as environmental issues, particularly climate change, have become more important to [...]
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First, President Bush signed an energy bill yesterday that would take a small step toward reducing our dependence on foreign oil. By raising CAFE standards for cars and trucks to 35 miles per gallon by 2020 and increasing the use of renewable energy four-fold by 2022, we will, estimates the bipartisan National Commission [...]
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A new design for silicon-based chips makes it possible to mechanically stretch them out to cover large areas. These expanded chips, which could be thousands of times the size of the original, could be used to make cheaper solar panels, sensor networks, and flat-screen TVs.
The chips, built by researchers at Stanford University, consist of free-floating [...]
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Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles [...]
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The U.N.’s climate conference in Bali rolls on, but most American legislators did the right thing by foregoing the trip and continuing their work on important environmental legislation here at home. As a result, the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill, also known as the Climate Security Act, was passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works [...]
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Yahoo has announced their top search terms for 2007.
I’ll resist commenting on some of the starlets who were the top searches for the year. But one thing did jump out at me – climate change is way up there. And broken down by straight news searches, so were issues of energy security.
So what, [...]
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Yesterday, a radical environmental activism group called Rising Tide North America perpetrated a hoax aimed at embarrassing the U.S. Climate Action Partnership as the U.N. climate change conference gets underway in Bali, Indonesia.
Rising Tide sent out the press release on USCAP letterhead, and even set up a sham website, claiming that the USCAP member companies [...]
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In case you missed it ABC’s World News Tonight aired a segment Sunday night on the national security implications of climate change. It’s worth a look.
I blog a lot about how our addiction to foreign oil is a security risk for America. But the ABC piece digs much, much deeper. It highlighted [...]
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