WASHINGTON – Missouri and Illinois ranked among “the 10 worst states for carbon dioxide pollution” from coal-fired power plants last year, a new report says. And the CO2 emissions from both states increased between 2000 and 2010.
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ATLANTA — Georgia has the eighth-worst levels of carbon dioxide pollution from power plants, but the state’s CO2 output is decreasing, according to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project.
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(Reuters) – California begins a market for greenhouse gases next year and prices will rise several times over between 2012 and 2020 under the plan to address climate change, Thomson Reuters research firm Point Carbon forecasts in a new report.
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Acting on a vow to fight the Obama administration on climate issues, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, unveiled draft legislation Wednesday to try to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, introduced legislation that suspends for two years U.S. carbon-dioxide regulations for power plants and other industrial polluters.
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Ever since analysts began in the 1980s trying to calculate the social costs of our dependence on carbon-based fuel, the results have been questioned. In 2010, basing its conclusions on three federal models, the Obama administration set the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions at $21 a ton. That matters because it’s what is used by the Department of Energy to figure out, for example, the impact of tighter efficiency standards on kitchen appliances. It’s also what the Environmental Protection Agency uses to calculate the impact of vehicle tailpipe emissions.
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The federal Court of Appeals in Washington today rejected Texas’ latest attempt to block the first carbon pollution control requirements under the Clean Air Act, which took effect last week.
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Decatur County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to begin selling carbon credits created by the burning of methane gas emitted from the countys old landfill on Georgia 309 South.
* Emissions in 2012 to rise 2.39 pct on improved economy
* 2012 emissions still below 1999 levels
WASHINGTON Jan 11 (Reuters) – U.S. emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are expected to fall in 2011 but rise in 2012 as the economy recovers, the government’s energy forecaster said on Tuesday.
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To listen to Democrats, they have new Republican House Speaker John Boehner right where they want him.
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With the new year, the US Environmental Protection Agency began regulating emissions of carbon from power plants and other major producers of carbon dioxide.
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2011) Most college students in the United States do not grasp the scientific basis of the carbon cycle — an essential skill in understanding the causes and consequences of climate change, according to research published in the January issue of BioScience.
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The Obama administration views carbon dioxide as a pollutant that warms the earth, and it imposed new regulations at the beginning of the year to begin to control CO2 emissions. But to Texas oilmen, carbon dioxide is a useful and scarce commodity that is vital to extracting hard-to-reach oil reserves.
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SAINT JOHN – A St. Andrews family is one of eight in the province that is taking action on climate change by participating in the Neighbourhood Eco-Challenge beginning Monday and continuing until March 4.
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Ceiling lights provide internet path, Google Analytics helps out a website carbon footprinting application, and Call2Recycle names executive director in Canada.
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Charlotte – New Lighting Continues Aggressive Environmental Plan for TharpeRobbins;
Goal is to reduce carbon footprint by 50% in five years
The TharpeRobbins Company, a global leader in the managed reward and recognition industry, has recently taken another big step towards reducing its carbon footprint. The company has replaced all lighting in two of its three facilities with energy efficient fixtures that only require 50 percent of the previous energy used while providing considerably more light. Motion sensors which automatically turn on the lights have been added in low travel areas to further enhance the energy saving impact.
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HOUSTON, Jan. 4 — Denbury Resources Inc. in December completed the last section of the 24-in., 320-mile Green Pipeline for transporting carbon dioxide from Donaldsonville, La., to oil fields in Texas and on Dec. 16 started injecting CO2 for enhancing oil production from Hastings oil field in Brazoria County.
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A common refrain is the theme that carbon control, indeed all pollution control kills jobs.
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Washington, D.C Cowlitz County in Washington state is across the Columbia River from Portland, Ore., which promotes mass transit and urban density and is a green reproach to the rest of us. Recently, Cowlitz did something that might make Portland wonder whether shrinking its carbon footprint matters. Cowlitz approved construction of a coal export terminal from which millions of tons of U.S. coal could be shipped to Asia annually.
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Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced a plan to curb heat-trapping gases emitted by homes, cars and businesses in the state by 25 percent below 1990 levels over the next decade.
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Democrats based much of their 2010 midterm congressional election campaign on the risible claim that Republican candidates wanted to “outsource jobs.” Set aside the fact that this claim, repeated in literally hundreds of races, was as ineffective as it was ludicrous. More importantly, President Obama’s new carbon control scheme, which begins next week, provides conclusive evidence that it was the Democrats who planned to do the outsourcing.
How acrimonious will the relationship between the 112th Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency become?
WASHINGTONRep. Fred Upton recently suggested that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson would soon be testifying at oversight hearings so often that she should reserve a personal parking place on Capitol Hill.
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WASHINGTONRep. Fred Upton recently suggested that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson would soon be testifying at oversight hearings so often that she should reserve a personal parking place on Capitol Hill.
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WASHINGTON – December 28 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to schedules for setting greenhouse gas emission limits for power plants and oil refineries. The schedules were negotiated as part of court settlements in lawsuits brought by environmental groups and states. Under the schedules, the agency will issue a proposed standard for power plants by July 2011 and a final rule by May 2012. The agreement also calls for a proposed standard for oil refineries by December 2011 and a final rule by November 2012.
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