Category: Carbon Tax

1. Countries in the News

   (9 articles) Europe

   (4 articles) Norway

   (3 articles) United Kingdom

   (2 articles) Iceland

2. Organizations in the News

   (7 articles) Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act.

   (5 articles) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

   (4 articles) Forbes

   (3 articles) IBM

   (2 articles) SunGard

   (2 articles) Carbon Reduction Commitment

   (2 articles) Uptime Institute

   (2 articles) Intel

   (2 articles) New York Times

   (1 articles) MIT

3. People in the News

   (11 articles) Barack Obama

   (4 articles) John Kerry

   (3 articles) Henry Waxman

   (3 articles) Ed Markey

   (2 articles) Steven Chu

   (2 articles) Todd Stern

   (1 articles) Paula Bernier

   (1 articles) Doug Mohney

   (1 articles) Tate Cantrell

   (1 articles) Carol Browner

1. Utilities Willing to Go First -- but Not Alone -- on Emission Limits

   Explore Article The New York Times (Mar 3 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions

   The heads of several prominent utilities say they would not necessarily object to the power sector being the first industry subject to carbon emission limits under proposed climate change legislation. More News From ClimateWire Battle Lines Harden Over New Transmission Policy for Renewables Alberta Works Quietly to Improve Image of Oil Sands Decongesting Rail Traffic Is a Major Step to Raise Fuel Efficiency U.K. and Its Major Power Producer Brawl Over Biomass Subsidies Obama Speech to Business Group Leaves Greenhouse Gas Issues Up in the Air A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » ...
   

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2. Senate Climate Talks Intensify With New Carbon Pricing Draft Expected This Week

   Explore Article The New York Times (Mar 2 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax

   he Senate trio at the center of talks on a comprehensive climate and energy bill will present a draft proposal this week to their fence-sitting colleagues and high-profile interest groups amid warnings from Democratic leadership that the window for action is closing. More News From ClimateWire Obama Speech to Business Group Leaves Greenhouse Gas Issues Up in the Air Carbon Pricing Sticks Out as Senate Climate Bill's Main Obstacle A Reactor That Burns Depleted Fuel Emerges as a Potential 'Game Changer' Reaping the Whirlwind? Europe's Big Wind Subsidy Race Obama Mounts a Last-Ditch Attempt to Pass a 'Hybrid' Climate and ...
   

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3. John Kerry says compromise climate bill coming

   Explore Article Technology News (Feb 26 2010) Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

   Senator John Kerry said a bipartisan climate change bill would emerge soon in the U.S. Senate, contradicting what he called the "conventional wisdom" that the legislation was dead this election year. Kerry is working closely with the Obama administration and a bipartisan group of senators on a comprehensive bill to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide pollution blamed for global warming. "We're on a short track here in terms of piecing together legislation we intend to roll out," Kerry told a climate policy forum, without giving details of his proposals. The Massachusetts Democrat and White House officials are among the most optimistic ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Barack Obama   Todd Stern   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

4. U.K. Lawmakers Call for Intervention in Carbon Market (Update1)

   Explore Article BusinessWeek (Feb 8 2010) Construction , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear

   Europe needs stricter limits on greenhouse gases and the power to intervene in carbon markets as its cap-and-trade program fails to encourage investments in cleaner energy, U.K. lawmakers said today in a report. “It is imperative that there are mechanisms for reducing the EU cap,” the committee said. While the U.K. alone couldn’t change EU caps, the 16-member panel representing the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties said “the U.K. should be prepared to act “unilaterally” to curb its supply of permits and “demonstrate a continuing leadership role on tackling climate change.”
   

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5. Carbon Dioxide, Cap and Trade, and the Data Center

   Explore Article Relocate (Feb 2 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

   Regardless of what you may think about anthropogenic global warming (climate change caused by human activity) or the recent scandal centering on the ethics and motivations of certain climate scientists, carbon dioxide is a substance that is in the political dog house. Residents of member states in the European Union have already seen the institution of a cap and trade system designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through government regulation; residents of the United States may well be in for a similar system. Although data centers generally do not, by themselves, spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, their operation does ...
   

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6. Harness Heat & Power Consumption

   Explore Article Processor.com (Jan 14 2010) Carbon Tax

   Data centers aren’t the only things chugging along into the new year, as heat is anticipated to have yet another successful year of delivering headaches to infrastructure managers around the globe. However, by undertaking a project in 2010 that can help to keep temperatures and power consumption under control, data centers can force heat to look elsewhere to continue its productive run. An easy approach to controlling rising temperatures is simply to throw more cooling at the heat, but then the data center faces increased power consumption costs. The challenge, then, is to achieve acceptable temperature levels while keeping an ...
   

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7. The next decade: Renewable Energy

   Explore Article ABC7.com Green Content (Jan 5 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Hydro , Wind

   The clock has just struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and your rooftop cocktail party is in full swing. An urban garden, with potted evergreens and fruit trees, carpets the top of your downtown apartment building. The structure itself is vintage – a 1960’s brownstone that’s been retrofitted, by city-wide mandate. It operates on the new multi-source national electrical grid, which is supplied by wind, solar, geothermal power, as well as fossil fuels whose emissions are trapped underground. Rooftop Garden (Photo: Adpower99/Dreamstime.) In your apartment, appliances and plumbing fixtures are energy- and water-efficient – something you were able to ...
   

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8. From Cap and Trade to Carbon Farming

   Explore Article Opinion (Jan 4 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

   The EPA’s decision to regulate carbon emissions, made on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit, immediately incurred the wrath of industry. Businesses are petrified, as Iain Murray writes in The National Review online, that the agency will regulate “everything larger than a Gore-sized mansion.” What are we to make of this fear? There’s really no need to panic over the prospect of EPA dominance. Instead, industry should take the hint that’s it high time to push hard for climate-change legislation. Sure, the move by the EPA to exercise regulatory authority over carbon — a power granted to it by ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Barack Obama   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9. Christopher Helman On Energy

   Explore Article Forbes.com (Dec 18 2009) Carbon Tax

   The Big Trend Oil will get cheaper. Prices have been stronger this year than many players expected, climbing from $35 to $80 thanks in equal measure to the falling greenback and a willingness by OPEC members (especially Saudi Arabia) to shut in millions of barrels a day of excess production. Article Controls EMAIL PRINT REPRINT NEWSLETTER COMMENTS (1) SHARE YAHOO! BUZZ Don't expect this to last. Oil prices will fall in 2009, to as low as $40 a barrel. How? All it takes is a couple debt-laden, oil-rich governments to ramp up output for OPEC's cutbacks to unravel. Also set ...
   

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10. At Climate Talks, Trade Pressures Mount

    Explore Article The New York Times (Dec 17 2009) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax

    ould a legacy of the Copenhagen climate conference turn out to be higher tariffs? Living Story Global Warming Recent developments on the politics of global warming with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from NYTimes.com and Google. Multimedia Interactive Feature Climate Change Conversations Graphic Who’s at the Climate Talks, and What Do They Seek? Interactive Feature Science and Politics of Climate Change Related Obama Has Goal to Wrest a Deal in Climate Talks (December 18, 2009) Times Topics: Copenhagen Climate Talks (UNFCCC) With little prospect of an agreement at the talks this week bringing immediate and binding emissions limits on ...
    

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11. How to fight global warming: Smart taxes

    Explore Article money.cnn.com (Dec 16 2009) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    With Copenhagen climate talks looking stalled and the Senate mired in complicated eco-wrangling, is there a simpler way to get the U.S. to reduce the carbon emissions that most scientists blame for global warming? Some say yes, a refundable carbon tax. The current cap and trade plan in congress to cut greenhouse gases involves a complex web of allotments and giveaways that some fear are too compromised to work. A carbon tax could cut greenhouse gases without having to make major concessions to any one interest group, supporters say. The tax works like this: A fee is levied at the ...
    

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12. Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen- by Paul Bernier

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 9 2009) Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions

    President Obama heads to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. While there, he’s expected to commit to lowering U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020. For all the talk about the environment, the United State currently lacks national regulations around greenhouse gases, although 29 states have adopted or are considering such legislation, and the House in June passed a bill addressing this issue, according to the ICT Green Report recently issued by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). This goal that the President is expected to put on the table in Denmark can also be found in the ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Barack Obama   Paula Bernier   Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act.

13. Cap and Fade

    Explore Article The New York Times (Dec 7 2009) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. It merely allows polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars. Supporters of cap and trade point to the 1990 Clean Air Act ...
    

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14. Senate Panel Opens Door to Carbon Tax, Sector-Specific GHG Limits

    Explore Article The New York Times (Dec 2 2009) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

    The Senate climate debate detoured from cap-and-trade legislation today as the Energy and Natural Resources Committee weighed alternatives like a carbon tax or even sector-specific limits on power plants. More News From Greenwire Poisoned Water Haunts Bhopal 25 Years After Deadly Accident -- Report Foreign Suitors Lining Up for U.S. High-Speed Rail Payday Forest Service 'Dramatically Reshaping' Plans in Response to Climate Change Appeals Court Rules Contractors Not Liable for Katrina Flooding DuPont's 'Unique' Seaweed Venture Nets DOE Cash A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » "We need to dispense with the blind ...
    

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15. Bury Our Carbon At Sea

    Explore Article Forbes.com (Nov 3 2009) Carbon Tax , Fossil Fuel

    The world's climate cabal gathers in Copenhagen next month to debate what to do with the 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide the human race produces every year by burning fossil fuels. Half of this man-made exhaust is absorbed by oceans, plants and trees. The rest contributes to the atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gas that has climate scientists envisioning global catastrophe. After the Copenhagen attendees talk up wind, solar, nuclear and spray-foam insulation, a bold solution that will inevitably come up is to capture and sequester some of that carbon dioxide deep underground. Geologic cavities in the U.S. alone ...
    

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