Environmental groups and the biofuels industry have been in a tug of war – with the EPA in the middle – on the inclusion of indirect international emissions when farmers produce fuel instead of food. A new EPA proposal measures emissions form “indirect” land-use changes associated with biofuels, such as [...]

Let’s say you were given a simple choice, you can choose to save one of the following two things. The environment or your job. Which would you pick? While the question may be simple in its premise, it is essentially what environmentalists have been pressing governments around the world to [...]

A group of business leaders is overseeing the implementation of Chicago’s Climate Change Action Plan, ensuring it won’t sit on a shelf like so many others. John Tracy, chief technology officer at Boeing recently joined the committee, bringing an engineer’s methodology to the group. “I’m the one who I think [...]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance this week that clarifies what publicly traded companies will need to disclose to investors in terms of climate-related “material” effects on business operations, whether from new emissions management policies, the physical impacts of changing weather or business opportunities associated with the growing [...]

A Boston based environmental advocacy group is suing Dominion power for alleged pollution emission violations at their Salem Harbour Power station. In quarterly reports filed by Dominion with the provincial regulator shows the 60 year old oil and coal fired plant violated smokestack emissions 300 times between January 2005 and [...]

The city of Toronto, Canada has partnered with U.S. based Veolia in a $23.5 million (CDN) project waste from the Ashbridges Bay to process sewage waste into fertilizer pellets. Toronto has a green box recycling program in place, that in additional to blue and grey box programs requires residents of [...]

It can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in 3.7 seconds, without using a drop of gas. The electric Tesla roadster has been approved for sale in Canada and will be available to Canadians, at least in the Toronto region, this spring. While the price is the cost [...]

The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA., announce their sponsorship of the NEW Energy Idea Contest. The grand prize of $35,000 will be awarded to either an entrepreneur or one early-stage, pre-revenue company in the process of developing a new energy or [...]

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While Europe has an active Cap and Trade system, “there is minimal interest” for one in the United States according to a top Republican in the United States Senate. Senator Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday there was barely any support in that chamber for passing cap and trade legislation which [...]