| Sourced From Fredrick News Post |
Carbon emissions are increasingly at the forefront of policy issues, and experts say agricultural practices could play a role in decreasing emissions while providing farmers with a new cash crop.
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Lloyd Stover: Why a carbon tax is key to an energy policy
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In many ways, the recent holiday season seemed to be less joyful than past seasons. There was, however, one unexpected present for most Americans. Lower gasoline prices seemed to put more money into the pockets of consumers. Some economists say the retreat from $4-per-gallon gasoline has been the equivalent of a $200 billion tax break — but it’s a false hope.
Research helps scientists study carbon storage
| Sourced From KGW |
At a forest research site in the Coast Range, Beverly Law is studying the breathing patterns of a fast-growing Douglas fir stand.
A tower shooting up from the forest floor is rigged to measure the carbon dioxide concentration of the air 20 times per second.
Obama may act faster on carbon dioxide emissions
| Sourced From Baltimore Sun |
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush could be forcing President-elect Barack Obama to act almost immediately to curb global warming, after years of the Bush administration’s fighting attempts to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions.
India, China’s role essential for international carbon agreement: Brown
| Sourced From ZEE News |
London, Jan 04: British Premier Gordon Brown has said that an international agreement to reduce carbon emission would be one of his key priorities in 2009 for which India and China will have to be taken on board.
Coal plant offers promising future, but clouds remain
| Sourced From Chron |
RIESEL — A single smokestack 30 stories high looms on the horizon of this town 15 miles east of Waco.
Some 275 people are working there to build the Sandy Creek coal-fired power plant. Up to a thousand more could join them before the plant opens in 2012.
Reducing carbon footprints: A New Year’s resolution
| Sourced From Phil Star |
This year, 2009, in Copenhagen, member countries of the UN must negotiate a new climate deal. Together with the rest of the world, we can avert the tipping point of irreversible climate change.
An Emissions Plan Conservatives Could Warm To
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CONSERVATIVES don’t support tax increases that are veiled as “cap and trade” schemes for pollution permits. But offer us a tax swap, and we could become the new administration’s best allies on climate change.
Climate scientists: it’s time for ‘Plan B’
| Sourced From The Independent |
An emergency “Plan B” using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading scientists carried out by The Independent. The collective international failure to curb the growing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has meant that an alternative to merely curbing emissions may become necessary.
Carbon credits’ value may grow
| Sourced From WBIR |
Bellevue resident Ed Polk hangs onto 350 acres of forestland, not to market its timber but because he loves wildlife and wants to preserve a sense of Tennessee wilderness for future generations.
Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon
| Sourced From Environmental News Network |
“As of 2007, the shrinking forests in the tropical regions were releasing 2.2 billion tons of carbon per year,” says Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, “Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon.” “Meanwhile, expanding forests in the temperate regions were absorbing 0.7 billion tons of carbon annually. On balance, a net of some 1.5 billion tons of carbon were being released into the atmosphere each year, contributing to global warming.”
Happy New Year – A New Political Reality for Carbon Taxes
| Sourced From OEN |
For too long the conventional wisdom has been that while carbon taxes may be superior to cap-and-trade schemes, there is no way that politicians would ever support a new tax, even one that was revenue-neutral. Environmentalists who might otherwise be supporting a carbon tax because it could produce real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions far more rapidly than cap-and-trade have dismissed carbon tax advocacy as naive and have rallied behind cap-and-trade.
The Cost of Cutting Carbon
| Sourced From Technology Review |
The cheapest way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is probably to put a price on them. One way to do that is a direct tax (see “Q&A”). Another is a cap-and-trade system, where the government sets an overall cap on emissions, but individual businesses trade emission allowances. But surprisingly, a carbon penalty may do little to increase reliance on renewable energy or reduce petroleum consumption.
Sick of Stocks? Trade Carbon
| Sourced From The Money Times |
Many investors have just about had it with stocks. With ETF innovation continuing at breakneck pace, you can invest in markets that have just about nothing to do with investments you’re familiar with.
Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices for the Northwest
| Sourced From SeattlePi |
Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade
The best way to start addressing climate change is to yank subsidies from fossil fuels and put a price on carbon dioxide emissions from them. Of the two methods widely discussed for pricing carbon — cap and trade, and a carbon tax, which is better?
