America’s carbon dioxide emissions last year fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report. Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of new energy-saving technologies and a doubling in the take-up of renewable energy. The reduction in climate pollution brings America more than halfway towards Barack…
Mass appeal wins votes, not the truth. Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, professed a surprisingly different set of core values compared with those of the Romney who would be President. As governor, Romney aggressively supported the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and championed renewable energy. He also worked to close aging coal-fire power plants, and readily…
China is really big. We know, we’ve seen the pictures. At more than 1.3 billion inhabitants and counting, the People’s Republic of China represents almost 1/5th of Earth’s total population. China’s population and advanced industries continue to grow at an alarming rate, creating a unique set of environmental issues. Their national landscape reveals challenges endemic…
Eureka, a controversial bill whose heart is in the right place California’s lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 1532 on May 29th, known as the Cap and Trade program. The bill imposes strict emissions limits on refineries and power plants that release huge volumes of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. Regulatory mandates, along with economic incentives, form…
Marketplace.org recently took a hard look at America’s latest trend for gas prices. Crude oil has dropped by another $20 bucks per barrel, lowering our price per gallon by 30 to 40 cents. Avery Ash of AAA believes that last month’s $20 price drop for crude may lead to a 50 cent price fall per…
Tens of millions of new jobs can be created around the world in the next two decades if green policies are put in place to switch the high-carbon economy to low-carbon, the UN has said.
What is oil sands mining? Crude oil deposits lie beneath the earth among layers of rock, water, and sand in the form of bitumen, a heavy, viscous type of crude oil that mixes with the geological strata like cold molasses. Mining these oil sands deposits takes place in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta, Canada,…
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Tomorrow is Earth Hour which started in 2007 in Australia and has blown up worldwide in the past several years. Where it doesn’t seem to have as large an impact is in the U.S. If it is just a matter of promotion then please talk to your employees, friends, neighbors, and social media contacts. Let…
Mandatory greenhouse gas reporting is an important step towards the low carbon economy, says Colin Baines You wouldn’t go on a diet without weighing yourself, and the same goes for carbon emissions. Companies need to know how much they emit so they can reduce it. Photograph: Paul Vozdic/Getty Images The mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas…