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US carbon emissions hit lowest point since Nirvana was top of the charts
2013-04-05 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: US carbon emissions from energy production last year hit the lowest levels since 1994, according to a report today from the federal Energy Information Administration: Carbon emissions have now declined every year since 2007 save for 2010. The start of that period coincides, of course, with the great recession. The economic slowdown reduced energy needs as well as prompting more energy efficiency; but you can also thank the natural-gas boom that began around the same time, and which has shifted electricity...
EU capped carbon emissions fell 1.4 percent in 2012: data
2013-04-02 13:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Emissions from firms in the European Union's carbon market fell by 1.4 percent last year, preliminary like-for-like EU data showed on Tuesday, matching an average of analysts' forecasts. Around 10,000 installations out of a total of some 13,000 firms operating under the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS), the EU's main tool to fight climate change, reported carbon dioxide emissions of 1.79 billion tonnes in 2012, the data showed. ETS emissions fell for a second consecutive year in 2012, suggesting...
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Northeast States Prove Renewables Work in Reducing Carbon Emissions While Growing the Economy
2013-03-27 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If the 10 Northeast states from Maryland to Maine were a country, they would be the tenth largest emitter of climate-altering carbon pollution in the world, according to a report released yesterday by Environment America. In 2010, the region emitted 533 million metric tons of carbon pollution, more than the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Brazil and France. "In the wake of Winter Storm Nemo, Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Irene, the Northeast must double-down on its commitment to lead the...
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Lawmakers Release Carbon Emissions Tax Plan
2013-03-13 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Almost exactly four years after unveiling his doomed cap-and-trade proposal to deal with global warming, Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, released a new plan on Tuesday to address climate change and federal budget woes: a tax on carbon emissions. Mr. Waxman, joined by Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, both Democrats, distributed a relatively simple proposal to impose a fee on greenhouse...
Vigilent Successfully Reduces Carbon Emissions, Employee Waist Sizes, And Commuting Barriers
2013-03-08 12:01:00| pollutiononline Home Page
Technology isn’t the only innovation emerging from Silicon Valley these days. Vigilent, an energy management company located in the San Francisco East Bay, announced the results of a unique wellness program that ties additional stock option grants to healthier lifestyle choices
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