American aviation sector accused of using ‘every trick in the book’ to block the European Union’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions Read more…
Wall Street sees carbon trading and related derivative products as the next big thing in financial innovation. Critics say it’s the next big financial mess. Read more…
The United States and European Union can pay to transfer to developing countries more than three-quarters of proposed carbon cuts over the next decade, draft and approved rules show. Read more…
“We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century,” President Obama said in his address to Congress earlier this year. Read more…
A signature facet of President Obama’s domestic agenda is to slow or reverse the march of global warming. In fact, one of the President’s campaign promises was to implement a “cap-and-trade” system on carbon emissions. Read more…
An influential team of state legislators is mulling a proposal that would initially take the trade out of cap-and-trade. Read more…
Governor David A. Paterson of New York is thinking of giving the utility industry more free allowances to pollute under the Northeast carbon-trading system, as my colleague Danny Hakim reports today. Read more…
Potentially one of the most far-reaching elements in the budget blueprint is the call to combat global warming by adopting a so-called “cap and trade” system for reducing carbon emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities. Read more…
The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory—a satellite designed to track and measure global carbon dioxide emissions—fell to earth shortly after takeoff and crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after failing to reach orbit Tuesday morning. Read more…
The U.S. could produce enough ethanol to displace nearly a third of all gasoline use by 2030, but gas would have to cost more than it does today for the plan to work, according to a study released Tuesday by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. Read more…