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 or tell us about other current items of interest in the comment thread below.
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GM joins US climate action campaign
Washington Post – AP, H. Josef Hebert
WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp., and nearly a dozen other major companies, have joined the growing number of businesses calling for limits on greenhouse gases to combat global warming. General Motors on Tuesday became the first automobile manufacturer to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of corporate executives that wants Congress to enact an economy-wide mandatory cap on carbon dioxide emissions.
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Green-tech pros eye cash in carbon
New York Times – News.com, Martin LaMonica
The first electric vehicles to roll off Phoenix Motorcars’ manufacturing lines will have a hidden, but potentially lucrative, asset embedded in them. The company’s battery-powered trucks, set for delivery this summer, will generate “zero-emission credits” from the state of California that could add up to serious money for the start-up if it can sell those credits to bigger automakers.
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Climate change issue heats Capitol Hill
Washington Post – Reuters, Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming was impossible to avoid on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, with a trio of hearings on the consequences or cures for climate change and another on the related question of endangered wildlife.
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Lawmakers look at coal to break oil dependence
Los Angeles Times, Richard Simon and Janet Wilson
WASHINGTON — For years, coal-country lawmakers have talked about turning the abundant natural resource into a fuel for motor vehicles.
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Nymex plans for carbon-emissions trading
Wall Street Journal, Matthew Dalton
The New York Mercantile Exchange plans to offer contracts for trading carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, along with other heat-trapping emissions.
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Environmental ‘intelligence’?
Wall Street Journal, Peter Hoekstra
Here we go again. The 2008 intelligence authorization bill, which the House may vote on this week, diverts CIA and other intelligence resources away from critical terrorism-related missions to study global climate change. If it becomes law, the legislation will force agencies to complete a National Intelligence Estimate with a 30-year assessment on the effects of environmental change within nine months.
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Blueprint for greenhouse gases
Christian Science Monitor
Buy a fluorescent bulb and stop a hurricane? It’s not that easy. A new climate-change report finds voluntary conservation and the use of clean energies together won’t be enough to slow global warming. Rather, strict rules on greenhouse gases will need to pinch lifestyles. And the biggest price? A crimp on world economic growth.
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IBM unveils energy efficiency plan
New York Times – News.com, Caroline McCarthy
NEW YORK–Let the color jokes begin: With its new energy efficiency initiatives, Big Blue wants to go green.
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LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
New York Times – AP
NEW YORK (AP) — The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn’t look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad are talking about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution to global warming.
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