Exelon mulls closure of unprofitable Quad Cities nuke plant - seattlepi.com
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... this year's capacity
auction, so it must operate until at least 2019. The Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency is studying the federal rule, including
whether to establish a carbon trading program, said Jim Ross,
manager of the agency's air pollution control division. That could
benefit nuclear power because plants that pollute would have to buy
credits if they wanted to continue ...
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Cap and trade: Is California a leader or a loner? - VC-Star
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Breaking the Ice: Obama Seeks to Cement Climate Change Legacy - NBC News
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... As the nation struggled to
recover from the worst economic climate since the Great Depression amid
massive job losses and record home foreclosures, Congress debated the
merits of "cap and trade" legislation aimed at rewarding
companies that cut carbon emissions and raising the cost for those that
don't. Related: U.S. Lags in Carbon Tax to Fight Climate Change It was
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Are You Tired of Hearing About Climate Change? | Stirring the Pot
... Economic activities that are damaging to the climate would be discouraged while those that contribute to climate change solutions would be encouraged. The revenue-neutral part of a carbon tax is meant to reduce some other federal taxes so that the overall rate of taxation would not increase. My preference for the tax to offset with a carbon tax is the payroll tax that funds Social ...
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Arkansas had key role in California's cap and trade program - VC-Star
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Nunavut's food crisis is becoming an election issue - Home | Day 6 | CBC Radio
... ensure the program improves food affordability. Surprisingly, both the NDP and Liberals voted against this $11 million increase of funding to the Nutrition North program while supporting a carbon tax that would increase the cost of food for all Nunavummiut. Our Government is also moving forward with important reforms to increase the transparency of the program, including point-of-sale-initiat ...
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The Sierra Club has become a front group for its donors' financial interests (OPINION) | OregonLive.com
... for a carbon dioxide emission tax. That's because such a policy would mean millions of dollars for Sant and other Applied Energy Services investors. Few organizations have championed a carbon tax more fervently than the Sierra Club. Those efforts have undeniably been bolstered by Sant's contributions. This isn't the first example of conflicts of interest between the Sierra Club and its ...
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VPO Press Release - Carbon Tax Bill Introduced Into Assembly
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... , Aug. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. Assembly members Kevin Cahill and Barbara Lifton introduced a carbon tax bill into the Assembly this week. The bill would tax carbon emissions with the ultimate goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in New York State . This is an ambitious effort that starts a ...
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What We Can Learn From Californias Failed Green Jobs Plan
... those options include improving efficiency in coal-fired power plants; switching to natural gas, nuclear, or renewables; implementing a regional cap-and-trade program; imposing a carbon tax, and mandating more stringent efficiency standards. Although the EPA does not explicitly tell the states which path to take, the feds are clearly pushing them to adopt its favored options. For ...
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Clean Power Plan to bring changes to US power sector - International Law Office
... for implementing the requirements of the Clean Power Plan in states that fail to submit an approvable state plan. (4) The proposed Federal Implementation Plan ultimately relies on a carbon credit marketplace, setting forth two distinct trading programmes – mass based or rate based – of which the EPA plans to finalise only one. The Federal Implementation Plan is intended to be ...
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Do Carbon Offsets Actually Increase Emissions? · Environmental Leader · Environmental Management News
... A study released by the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) has revealed serious issues with the environmental integrity of carbon credit issued under Joint Implementation (JI). According to the review , about three-quarters of the carbon credits issued under JI may have actually increased emissions by about 600 million metric tons. JI enables countries with emission reduction commitments ...
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Why carbon taxes aren't a silver bullet for climate change | GreenBiz
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China to include automakers, paper mills in national carbon market: Media - The Economic Times
... BEIJING: China is considering proposals that would force automakers and paper mills to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of a nationwide carbon trading scheme due to be launched in early 2017, a local media report said, citing a government official. China was originally aiming to include six industrial sectors in the scheme - power generation, ferrous metals, nonferrous metals, building ...
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Carbon Tax Bill Introduced Into Assembly -- NEW PALTZ, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
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... , Aug. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. Assembly members Kevin Cahill and Barbara Lifton introduced a carbon tax bill into the Assembly this week. The bill would tax carbon emissions with the ultimate goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in New York State . This is an ambitious effort that starts a ...
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Mulcair mum on cap-and-trade cost | EDITORIAL | Editorial | Opinion | Toronto Su
... was raise electricity and other consumer prices across Europe, while its impact on emissions has been insignificant. That’s in part because the market is overrun with fraudulent carbon credits, for which no actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions occurred. To be sure, Mulcair isn’t the only Canadian political leader to propose cap-and-trade. Aside from Layton, former ...
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On carbon, credit all leaders for failing us | Sudbury Star
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... 19. REUTERS/Mark Blinch Regardless of which party wins the Oct. 19 federal election, Canadians can look forward to being ripped off for billions of dollars in the international carbon trading market. Carbon trading is intrinsic to both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair's and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's carbon pricing plans, since both would use cap-and-trade schemes, supposedly to reduce ...
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Do Carbon Offsets Actually Increase Emissions? · Environmental Leader · Environmental Management News
... A study released by the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) has revealed serious issues with the environmental integrity of carbon credit issued under Joint Implementation (JI). According to the review , about three-quarters of the carbon credits issued under JI may have actually increased emissions by about 600 million metric tons. JI enables countries with emission reduction commitments ...
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The Climate Post: Recent Studies Provide Examples of Emissions Trading Successes, Failures | Tim Profeta
... Economics Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. A separate study in the journal Nature Climate Change found significant misuse of a key carbon offsetting scheme after several factories increased their production of industrial waste products--spiking emissions. It suggests that a loophole in the United Nation's carbon market may have led to "perver ...
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Report: Carbon Credits Under Kyoto Protocol Actually Increased Emissions
... projects and transfer them to other countries. Almost 872 million ERUs had been issued under JI as of March 2015, about a third of all Kyoto offset credits. In a nutshell, JIs are carbon credits and include things like reforestation projects. Perhaps government heads should read this recent report by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), which found that the use of JI actually may ...
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Aboriginal community enters into world-first arrangement with mining companies Cockatoo Coal and BHP - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
... grant to get the partnerships necessary to deliver the environmental offsets... to look after some of the very unique species here." The offset arrangement is vastly different to the 'carbon credits' model but the minister said both arrangements were viable. "There was the opportunity for an entire carbon economy, which is not in it's mature form in this country yet... but when we look at the ...
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California green failure a warning for states facing Clean Power Plan
... those options include: improving efficiency in coal-fired power plants; switching to natural gas, nuclear or renewables; implementing a regional cap-and-trade program; imposing a carbon tax, or mandating more stringent efficiency standards. Although the EPA does not explicitly tell the states which path to take, the feds are clearly pushing them to adopt its favored options. For ...
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Interview With UN Climate Change Report Author: "Avarice Has Overcome Fear" | Aiko Stevenson
... start doing this. I heard rumors that China has already started. But, you wouldn't actually know. It certainly wouldn't be announced." According to Broome, what we urgently need is a carbon tax. At present, anyone is allowed to pollute our "common" atmosphere for free. Instead, fossil fuel companies should be taxed for all the carbon that they take out of the ground. And, individuals ...
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Climate Change This Week: Wind Winds Up, Extinctions Explode, and More! | Mary Ellen Harte
... Ideas: Anchors Away: Largest US Naval Base Threatened by Rising Seas - the Norfolk Naval Base. Source research.archives.gov OO Virginia: Protect Norfolk From Drowning - Join Cap And Trade - via the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a successful multistate collaboration from Maine to Maryland, to voluntarily cut emissions. OO Glass Paint: Secret To Keeping Metal Roofs Cool On ...
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Carbon Offsets: Easing Guilt, Pumping Emissions, Aiding Scams - Investors.com
... F limflam: Carbon trading, carbon credits, carbon offsets, carbon markets words intended to appeal to Westerners' environmentalist soft spot. But as it turns out, they're just synonymous with the word "fraud." When politicians, celebrities and business leaders who preach the green life are called out for their excessive fossil fuel use how many private jets does it take to fill up the ...
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BHP says UN climate change conference will bring consensus
... humans are influencing the climate by releasing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. But the company has walked a policy tightrope in recent years, and campaigned for Australia's carbon tax to be repealed on the grounds that it harmed the international competitiveness of Australian exporters. It has also argued that fossil fuels will continue to be the energy source of choice for many ...
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BBC World Service - Outside Source, Carbon credit scheme questioned
... Stockholm's Environment Institute says that a UN scheme designed to tackle climate change through the trading of carbon credits may have increased carbon emissions by 600 million tonnes. The BBC's environment correspondent Matt McGrath has been investigating. ( Picture: A heavy traffic jam is seen on the road at night in Beijing, China. Credit: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) ...
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Kyoto protocol's carbon credit scheme increased emissions by 600m tonnes' - 25 Aug 2015 - News from BusinessGreen
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... A key carbon offsetting scheme was so open to abuse that three quarters of its allowances lacked environmental integrity, a new report says. UN officials confirm the findings by the Stockholm Environment Institute that around 600 million tonnes of carbon were wrongly emitted as a result, under the UNFCCC's Joint Implementation (JI) scheme. An estimated 80 per cent of JI projects were of ...
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Reaching the Base of the Pyramid and cutting carbon in the process | GreenBiz
... buckle down to reduce carbon emissions and pass laws to stave off climate change, a new financing tool has emerged that could solve this logistical piece of the puzzle: income from carbon offset purchases. Jonathan Shopley, managing director of the Carbon Neutral Company, said he is excited about the possibilities. "In my experience, there are technologies that are incredibly relevant, ...
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How carbon credit scheme resulted in even more greenhouse gas emissions - CSMonitor.com
... The use of carbon credits - offsetting pollution from one source by preventing it at another - under the Kyoto climate treaty may have worsened climate change instead of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, a new study indicates. The authors of the study say that offsets that were created under the United Nations' scheme significantly undermined the efforts to address climate change and ...
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Surpise: EU carbon credit scheme was used to generate cash with no carbon reductions « Hot Air
... The European carbon credit program, developed in conjunction with the United Nations, is working out just fabulously. Well it's at least working out fabulously for a few people. Similar to programs being developed here in the United States by climate warriors, it offers "flexibility" to various countries so it can be tailored to their individual needs. For example, if you are able to make big ...
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NYC rooftops could host 4.7 GW of high-yield solar projects : TreeHugger
... Mapdwell delivers a
near-instant visualization of what those different configurations would
look like, in terms of the physical space on the roof, as well as
metrics on the potential carbon offset of the solar array, the
overall cost, and the system's payback period. The report can then be
downloaded for further perusal, or forwarded to one or more of
Mapdwell's "trusted local installers," ...
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Carbon credits undercut climate change actions says report - BBC News
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... Curbing fires in coal waste is one way of generating carbon credits
The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did
not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study. The authors
say that offsets created under a UN scheme "significantly undermined"
efforts to tackle climate change. The credits may have increased
emissions by 600 million tonnes. In some ...
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N.W.T. premier questions federal parties on 7 territorial issues - North - CBC News
... said. "The big challenge is
we are seeing climate change affecting us, yet we don't want to see a
significant increase in our cost of living." McLeod won't say if he's in
favour of a carbon tax, but he says he doesn't want to add
another burden to the economy as it seeks to cap carbon emissions. The
federal government, said McLeod, should make it attractive for places
such as the ...
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Global Biomass Market Forecast - Assessment of Opportunities, Trends and Challenges 2014-2023 -- NEW YORK, Aug.24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
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... challenge for a number of
utilities in entering countries with abundant feedstock availability.
Going forward, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program and
availability of carbon credits for renewable energy projects will
drive the growth of the biomass power market. In this industry scenario
Taiyou Research analyzes the Global Biomass Industry. The report
contains the following: ...
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Indigenous fire methods could slash global emissions: UN report
... to radically cut greenhouse
gas emissions, according to United Nations research, which also
challenges Prime Minister Tony Abbott's refusal to embrace the purchase
of international carbon credits. Mr Abbott has previously said
buying overseas offsets sends money "offshore into dodgy carbon farms in
Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan". The government this month delayed
considering the measure ...
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