
Uh-oh. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) is raising the stakes on a U.S. climate bill by endorsing the idea of some sort of tariff on goods from countries that haven’t taken steps to suppress fossil fuel use. According to Reuters, Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, yesterday said:
“We must [...]
Lower-carbon future? Try natural gas.
The public debate on climate change can seem beguilingly simple: alternative fuels good; fossil fuels bad. If we burn less of the latter and use more of the former, the argument goes, we will be well [...]
As the Senate begins ’serious’ consideration of a climate bill, it bears repeating that such is the influence of fossil fuel industries that our ear tagged Congress critters accept the questionable assurance of carbon capture and storage while paying little heed to [...]
Nations across the globe are stepping up to reduce emissions in a plethora of ways. Sweden, for example, has declared they will no longer use fossil fuels for electricity by the year 2020. Sweden is also hoping to eliminate the use of gasoline for all [...]