Senators propose cutting greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020
3 release 'framework' of bill to send message to climate conference
The trio of senators who are trying to write a bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions released a "framework" Thursday that they had agreed to.
It showed they had not agreed to [...]
Sarah Palin’s op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday on ClimateGate and the Copenhagen conference has spawned a blizzard of comments from Post readers. Almost 4,000 comments as of this morning. Many of them - no friends of free speech — attack the newspaper for publishing Palin’s article at all. [...]
While climate experts were off at the Copenhagen summit working on their tans (in sunny Copenhagen), the EPA pulled a fast one. As the Washington Post noted in an article that was actually quite good in providing the negatives, the agency formally announced that six gases, including carbon dioxide [...]
Coinciding with the kick-off of the Copenhagen summit, the Washington Post launches its very own climate blog today. Post Carbon will be anchored by Juliet Eilperin and Steve Mufson and aims to give readers perspective, in real time, on the key climate and energy issues that face us globally. Initially [...]
And as Mark Hemingway points out, the New York Times is not.
Bill McKibben in the November 22 Washington Post: “Imagine an American president who would take the press corps to Glacier National Park so they could hike the dwindling ice fields, then fly them above the millions of acres of dead lodgepole pines covering much of the West, and then take [...]
In the op-ed pages of The Washington Post today, Elliot Gerson--the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust--takes a bold stand:
Tonight, 32 young Americans will win Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be [...]
Agribusiness has been vilified of [...]
Oh dear! Staunch trade proponent Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute is in bed with radical trade opponent Lori Wallach of Public Citizen in a joint op-ed in the Washington Post today. It seems Bergsten thinks there’s no chance of a legislative cap on CO2 emissions unless the U.S. [...]
Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe, reports the Washington Post. “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe. This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge [...]
Last Saturday, two stories about green jobs caught my eye. One was in the Washington Post and the other in the Seattle Times. The Post article was a hand-wringing affair about the failure of energy efficiency efforts funded by [...]
LONDON -- The British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming.
After years of resistance to construction of nuclear-power plants, the [...]
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 [...]
