REGULATION: Policy Integrity's Livermore discusses OMB study on costs,...
Has there been a shift in tone on regulation during President Obama's second term? During today's OnPoint, Michael Livermore, executive director at the Institute for Policy Integrity, discusses the...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE: Wash. legislation may favor indoor pot production despite carbon...
The carbon footprint of a kilogram of pot -- about 2.2 pounds -- produced indoors equals driving across the country seven times, a study showed. Yet new Washington state regulations being designed to...
View ArticleSCIENCE: Expedition to study Arctic plankton 'while there is still time'
The famed polar schooner Tara will cast off from Lorient in France on Sunday for a seven-month expedition to study the Arctic's plankton.
View ArticleSTATES: Power industry pressure blocks Texas bill supporting home solar panels
Amid pressure from the state's power industry, legislation to support solar energy generation in Texas was removed from the Senate calendar Monday.
View ArticleAVIATION: U.N. airline agency debates global emissions reduction system
Although the European Union agreed to temporarily halt a law that taxed airlines for emissions created during flights to and from its member states late last year, representatives of the United...
View ArticleENERGY: Indian, U.S. leaders tout 'critical' natural gas partnership
The export of U.S. natural gas to power-starved India could be a boon for both countries, leading Obama administration and Indian energy officials said yesterday.
View ArticleWEATHER: Spring of 2012 was the warmest and earliest in U.S. history
In case you forgot, the spring of 2012 was a record breaker for warmth, and it arrived early -- 15,000 high-temperature records were broken in the United States last March.
View ArticleEMISSIONS: Nitrogen footprint calculator points consumers to better choices
A British vegetarian releases the equivalent of 31 pounds of nitrogen into the environment per year. Meanwhile, a daily beef eater in the United Kingdom triples his veggie counterpart's footprint.
View ArticlePUBLIC OPINION: 'Not to worry,' a campus attitude that repels news about...
Ignorance, they say, is bliss, but does bliss lead to ignorance? Perhaps when it comes to climate change, new research shows.
View ArticleSOCIETY: How can you find 30,000 power plants? Make it into a game,...
When you're tackling a problem as big as climate change, it doesn't hurt to have a few extra hands on the job.
View ArticleGRID: Researchers develop system to automatically predict power outages...
Under torrential rain and hurricane winds, it's almost inevitable that afflicted areas will see lights flicker out. Large storms can drive trees to crash into transmission lines, and flooding can knock...
View ArticleRENEWABLE ENERGY: An experiment to adapt solar power to serve electric grids
A partnership between California-based Cool Earth Solar Inc. and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will seek to solve one of solar energy's major shortcomings, the intermittency of...
View ArticleEMISSIONS: Solving the case of Southern Calif.'s missing methane
In Southern California, scientists knew the missing methane had to be coming from somewhere. Was it dairies? Landfills? Natural seeps? Oil and gas operations?
View ArticleCALIFORNIA: Gov. Brown proposes to borrow $500M from cap-and-trade revenue
California Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday proposed borrowing $500 million in revenues from the state's landmark carbon cap-and-trade auctions and using those to help balance the general fund budget.
View ArticleCITIES: Business groups lower local emissions without mentioning climate change
Cleveland's chamber of commerce is ready to launch an unusual program to help businesses get loans for energy efficiency retrofits. In Salt Lake City, the local chamber is promoting "clean air" to...
View ArticleRENEWABLE FUELS: DuPont Biofuels' Koninckx says reforming RFS could stymie...
As congressional support for overhauling the renewable fuel standard grows, what impact would a revision have on long-term technology investments? During today's OnPoint, Jan Koninckx, global business...
View ArticleGLACIERS: Glacial ice in Mount Everest area shrinking
Higher average temperatures and a drop in winter precipitation have led to a decline in glacial ice in the Mount Everest region, a study shows.
View ArticleOCEANS: Jamestown, America's first successful colony, could be underwater by...
Jamestown, Va., the first successful English colony in America, is threatened by rising sea levels, causing archaeologists to worry about the preservation of the site's many historical artifacts.
View ArticleSTATES: Climate change speeds erosion in Alaska
Alaska's shores are experiencing accelerated erosion due to climate change, especially in areas near the Bering and Arctic seas.
View ArticleAIR POLLUTION: Pollutant might not cool planet as much as predicted, study shows
Don't count on pollution clouds to cool the atmosphere much.
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