Just north of Seattle, in Washington state, sits the small city of Bellingham. The sleepy city of 76,000 doesn’t seem like the kind of place to start a revolution, but the city council has fired the first governmental shot at the Alberta Tar Sands. On Monday June 7, 2010, by a vote of 7-0, the [...]
Read more →Environmental Groups in the US want to expand climate bill forestry aid. Environmental Groups based in the US are trying to expand a climate change bill being written in the United States Senate, to help foreign countries pay for enforcing laws they already have in place for protecting forests as one way of reducing carbon [...]
Read more →The state of Delaware will get more than $2 million from the sale of carbon credits. Delaware sold more than $2 milllion worth of carbon credits through a regional program created to reduce climate changing green house gas emissions. The money will be earmarked for energy conservation and clean energy programs and ventures. The revenue [...]
Read more →One thing is certain in the race for cleaner energy system: Nothing is going to be certain for a long time. Last week the Obama administration abandoned the long-running plan to bury nuclear waste below Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, another potential barrier to new nuclear power plants in the U.S. Big questions loom about the viability [...]
Read more →After a series of highly publicized error in a landmark report about manmade global warming, and lingering controversy over hacked emails between climate scientist – public confidence is beginning to erode and could result in further stalling efforts in Congress to pass climate change legislation. In recent weeks, Texas, Virginia and Alabama officials filed challenges [...]
Read more →The Environmental Protection Agency is riling many businesses with proposals to regulate greenhouse gases for the first time, but data suggest it has been slow out of the gate under the Obama administration in enforcing existing regulations on traditional pollutants. In fiscal 2009, the EPA’s enforcement office required polluters to spend more than $5 billion [...]
Read more →Facing wide criticism over their recent finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public welfare, top Environmental Protection Agency officials said earlier this week that any regulations of such gases would be phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on most American businesses. Lisa Jackson, administrator for the EPA wrote in a letter [...]
Read more →The Obama administration on Sunday unveiled an ambitious plan to rescue and repair the Great Lakes after a century of environmental neglect and abuse. The plan calls for more than $2 billion over five years on a wide range of restoration programs carried out by federal agencies, state and local governments, tribal and private groups [...]
Read more →The Environmental Protection Agency needs to go back to the drawing board in assessing the cause of greenhouse gas pollution, says Ken Cuccinelli, attorney general for the state of Virginia. “Restart the process, and this time us rigorous, defensible science,” said Cuccinelli who is a Republican. Cuccinelli wants the EPA to rethink its December findings [...]
Read more →While Wisconsin lawmakers discuss the Clean Energy Jobs Act, 12,000 residents of the state made their wishes known by sending in postcards. “The public wants more clean energy and they want it now,” said Dan Kohler, Wisconsin Environment Director. “People in Wisconsin are deeply concerned about our dependence on oil and coal.” Kohler’s group delivered [...]
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