03.17.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
The leaders of a bipartisan coalition of 29 state governors formed to develop recommendations for accelerating U.S. deployment of wind and other renewable generation said Tuesday that Congress should delay action on climate change legislation and instead...
03.15.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In a move that brings the agency a step closer to issuing regulations to combat ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to unveil as soon as today a public process to develop...
03.15.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
While a majority of electric utility industry executives queried in a recent survey believes some form of carbon legislation is inevitable, more than 70 percent say they oppose the cap-and-trade approach to lowering U.S. greenhouse gas emissions included in...
03.11.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In a new and potentially powerful argument for legislative action against climate change, new research released Wednesday concludes that using captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery could slash U.S oil imports in half by 2030 while permanently...
03.10.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In what appears to be a political signal sent just hours before a key White House meeting on climate change legislation, Republican moderate Sen. Richard Lugar announced Tuesday he is drafting a “practical energy plan” that would meet many of the...
03.09.2010
In the latest of a series of speeches on climate change policy, Exelon Chief Executive Officer and Chairman John Rowe said Saturday he thinks the chances of Congress enacting cap-and-trade legislation this year are “slim,” but that the nation...
03.08.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In alarming new climate change research, an international team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists has found that a section of the Arctic Ocean seabed containing vast amounts of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and is venting the...
03.05.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
A top American Electric Power official told a Senate panel Thursday that the timetables in legislation to impose stringent new limits on power plant emissions of three key pollutants are too aggressive, warning that AEP and other coal-dependent power...
03.05.2010
Coal state Democrats Thursday unveiled identical bills in the House and Senate that would suspend for two years pending Environmental Protection Agency rulemakings to regulate stationary-source emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, saying the delay is...
03.04.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
As a Senate trio floats a proposal to impose a carbon tax on transportation fuels as part of a compromise climate change bill, a new study of gasoline taxation concludes that a gasoline tax increase of 10 cents per gallon would cut U.S. vehicle carbon...
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