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US cap-and-trade system back on track to cut carbon emissions

2014-03-10 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Progress: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative had its first auction this week since lowering its cap -- and the results suggest the system is once again effectively reducing carbon emissions. Encompassing nine states in the northeast, RGGI is a cap-and-trade system that started operating in 2008. It sets an overall cap on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted by the participating states. Then it breaks that amount into permits -- each allowing for one ton of emissions in a given year -- and...

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8-2010 Carbon Plate Market

2014-03-10 03:35:07| Steel - Topix.net

Most steel suppliers expect a second half for the plate market that is much like the first-a slow, steady recovery marked by periods of fluctuating demand.

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Australia: Carbon pricing needed to control greenhouse gas emissions - BHP chief

2014-03-08 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Andrew Mackenzie, who took over at BHP in 2013 has called for a price to be put on greenhouse gas emissions to address the threat of global warming. He says the mining industry needs to do more to develop technology to capture and store carbon dioxide. Talking in Houston Texas on the future of fossil fuels and carbon emissions Andrew Mackenzie said BHP needs to think carefully about controlling its carbon emissions. He wants BHP to lead the way. BHP is the world's largest mining company and the third...

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Tutu urges US to shelve 'carbon bomb' Keystone

2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: South Africa's peace icon Desmond Tutu on Friday urged the United States to reject Canada's Keystone XL pipeline, saying the "carbon bomb" would upend the US role fighting climate change. The Nobel Prize-winning archbishop who fought apartheid led a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to reject the 1,179-mile (1,897-kilometer) pipeline, which would bring oil from the carbon-intense Alberta tar sands into the United States. "The verdict on whether to approve or reject the Keystone...

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Green groups take comments on EPA new proposal to regulate carbon emissions

2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Statewide and local environmental groups took public comment on Thursday evening to forward to the Environmental Protection Agency on a proposed rule to regulate carbon emissions from new power plants. A peoples hearing held in meeting rooms of the Holiday Inn in Helena brought forward support for the EPAs new regulation and affirmed the need to also move ahead with the proposed regulation. The EPA website notes that new standards on carbon dioxide limits from new fossil-fuel electrical generation...

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