greenhouse gas emissions
Attention, world leaders: it’s time to stop playing creative accounting tricks with carbon emissions and energy and time to start dealing with the cold, hard facts. Creative accounting tricks, after all, are what nearly brought the global economy to its knees two years ago. While banks and financial firms
GHGs
Turns out California’s hunch last week that things are different in Washington, DC, might have been right on the mark: the New York Times reported yesterday that President Barack Obama is expected to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its decision barring states from setting stricter-than-federal emissions
cap and trade
James Hansen, one of the US’s leading climate scientists, says he plans to send a letter this week urging President-elect Barack Obama to fight global warming with a carbon tax rather than a cap-and-trade system. According to the Worldwatch Institute, Hansen calls cap-and-trade “convenient, but it will not solve
clean air act
The U.S. communications giant AT&T has four words of greenhouse gas reduction wisdom for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): “information and communications technology.” In a letter to the EPA last week, AT&T says the information and communications technology (ICT) sector offers “tools outside the traditional
carbon dioxide
As if it wasn’t already hard enough to muster up sympathy for U.S. automakers, whose CEOs fly private jets to beg for government bailouts for their gas-guzzling industry. Now comes yet another reminder of why the former rulers of Detroit might not be sob-worthy: they’re still fighting
