An inspiring new video from smartMeme with leaders from frontline communities and allies talking about the Copenhagen moment.
Posted in Carbon Trading, Copenhagen 2009, United States [...] Talk of Plan B -- a Power Plant-Only Climate Bill -- Emerges in Senate
What was once the central political battleground for addressing global warming in the United States may be making a comeback.
While President Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill continue to focus on legislation covering [...]
In Beijing, US President Barack Obama and China President Hu Jintao announced a package of seven measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy, including: a Clean Energy Research Center; Electric Vehicles Initiative; Energy Efficiency Action Plan; Renewable Energy Partnership; 21st Century Coal; Shale [...]
GE and China’s Ministry of Railways signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly advance high-speed rail (HSR) opportunities in the United States. This collaboration will allow GE Transportation to be the first US locomotive manufacturer to more effectively compete for high-speed rail projects against global competitors.
While [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action...
French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said it was clear the main obstacle was the United States' [...]
Daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. Results of the research, by authors at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., Climate Central, The Weather Channel, and the National Oceanic [...]
Nissan and Reliant Energy of Houston, Texas, one of the major competitive electricity providers in the nation, are collaborating to advance electric mobility in the United States. Reliant is a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. one of the largest electricity generators in the United States.
Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn [...]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) With barely a month left for the start of the climate change conference at Copenhagen, the United States Friday indicated that it will not initial any treaty there, until it gets approval from the [...]
The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and non-profit Climate Central, funded a recent study regarding record high and low temperatures across the United States. The researchers involved came from Climate Central, The Weather Channel, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Center [...]
Did you know that in the United States we consume
60,000 plastic bags every five seconds? 106,000 aluminum cans every thirty seconds? two million plastic beverage bottles every five minutes?Sounds like a lot. But sometimes big numbers are too abstract to fully fathom. We need ways to visualize them.
That's exactly what [...]
The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency recently released a study regarding lakes across the country. The EPA tested 500 lakes and reservoirs across the country for mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls in fish. The study related to samples taken between 2000 and 2003.
The study found that all [...]
With all the hand-wringing over the alleged risk of market manipulation in cap and trade, you'd almost forget that the United States already has a carbon cap and trade program up and running. But it does.
RGGI, a regional program among 10 Northeast states, has been auctioning permits, allowing trading' [...]
MIAMI — Hurricane Ida took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after causing flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.MIAMI — Hurricane Ida took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after causing flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.Introduction and Summary:
The main source of insurance against flood damage in the United States is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some 21,000 communities, covering about 98 percent of the U.S. population, participate in the program. Almost all buildings in [...]
On November 05, 2009 Liberty Mutual Group, announced that its 10 St. James Avenue building, a 585,000 square foot Class A office building located in Boston’s Back Bay, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (LEED EB O&M) by the United States Green Building [...]
Although significant clean-tech investments are being made in America, the United States risks losing ground to other nations -- such as China and South Korea -- that are pursuing aggressive clean-tech growth initiatives, according to a report being released on October 22, 2009 by Green America and Clean Edge [...]
The United States and China, advises The Gray (”Getting More Dismal by the Day”) Lady, rely heavily on coal for their energy needs. If both countries continue to depend on burning large amounts of coal for the foreseeable future, eventually there will be no foreseeable future.
The 3rd part [...]
Analysts at Point Carbon have created a new model to forecast prices for carbon allowances under an emission trading system in the United States. A bill establishing a cap-and-trade programme in the US is currently being debated by Congress.
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