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Carbon Credits

A Big Breakthrough on Green Jobs

Billy Parish | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate, Green Jobs, Clean Energy, Bipartisan, New York, Republican, Cap, Energy Efficiency, Working Families Party, Trade, Climate Change, Weatherization, David Patterson, Aces, Carbon Credits, Bipartisanship, Green News
Billy Parish

The New York State Senate and Assembly rose above petty politics last week to pass legislation on climate and energy, setting a precedent for bipartisanship and a sensible cap and trade system.

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The Failure of Democracy in West Virginia: Redefining "Alternative" Energy

Jerry Cope | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal-to-Liquids, Carbon Emissions, Alternative Energy, Greenhouse Gases, West Virginia, Carbon Credits, Political Corruption, Climate Change, Democracy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Joe Manchin, Coal, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, SB 297, Energy Portfolio Standard Bill, Epa, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Green News
Jerry Cope

Alternative energy is a standard reference to energy sources that are not carbon based. But in West Virginia, many of the designated "alternative" energy sources contribute not only significantly more GHG emissions than the dirtiest conventional coal fired plants, they emit toxic pollutants as well.

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Conservation Pays: Selling Credits For Carbon As Profitable As Converting Rain Forests Into Plantations

AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Borneo Rain Forests, Conservation Letters, Carbon Credits, Conservation, Kalimantan, Green News

BANGKOK — Selling credits for the billions of tons of carbon that are locked in Indonesia's tropical rain forests could be as profitable as conv...

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Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing

DISCOVER Magazine | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Credits, Carbon Economy, Carbon Trading, Carbon Broker, Green News

Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients. B...

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California Carbon Credit Market Just Part Of Sweeping Plan

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Credit Market, Climate Change, Environment, Carbon Credits, California Global Warming Plan, Global Warming Solutions Act, California, Green News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California on Thursday adopted the nation's most sweeping plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions, issuing rules that could tr...

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Goldman Sachs Invests In Company That Delivers Clean Power to Developing Countries

Green Inc. | Kate Galbraith | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Clean Power, Goldman Sachs, Carbon Credits, Developing Countries, E+Co, Cap-and-Trade, Green News, Carbon Offsets, Bluesource, Green News

Goldman Sachs has recently invested in another carbon-offset company, in the latest sign of investment banks' interest in the area. On Monday E&Co, a...

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Nobody's Talking Cap-And-Trade Now, But Goldman Sachs Bets On It

Wall Street Journal | Jeffrey Ball | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Carbon Offsets, Cap-and-Trade, Environment, Carbon Credits, Green News

It looks like the financial wizards at Goldman Sachs are betting that the U.S. government is going to impose a cap-and-trade system for global-warming...

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100 Months and Counting Until Climate Change Is Irreversible

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Taxes, United Kingdom, Oil Prices, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Credits, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, United States, Treehugger, Global Warming, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

Runaway changes in weather patterns will start, there will be droughts; we can expect to see the collapse of species in the sea and on land. Basically, terribly scary stuff is expected to happen.

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The Big Green Bus: Ex-Diesel Goes Veggie

Patrick Pfeiffer | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Greenhouse Gases, Veggie Oil, Green, Environment, Carbon Credits, Dartmouth, Kyoto, Green Energy, Pfeiffer, Green News
Patrick Pfeiffer

The recent ramping up in production of biodiesel and ethanol has brought forth some bad rap to the alternative fuels world. The negative side to increased biodiesel and ethanol production includes . . .

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What The Heck Is A Carbon Credit? Ask Umbra

Grist | Umbra Fisk | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Energy, Cap and Trade, What Is Cap and Trade, Mccain Energy Policy, Carbon Credits, Cap and Trade Explained, What Is a Carbon Credit, Green News

Q. Dear Umbra, I don't understand carbon credits and how people can buy/sell/trade them. How is this good for our environment? Elizabeth Columbus, O...

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Europe Requires Airlines To Pay For Their Pollution

The New York Times | James Kanter | Posted 07.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Regulating Airplane Emissions, Aircraft Emissions, Aircraft Pollution, Green Travel, European Emissions Market, Carbon Credits, European Union, European Airlines, Green News

The European Union reached a landmark agreement Thursday to cap emissions from aircraft, raising the stakes in an increasingly ferocious battle with t...

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Climate Bill Bugged Even Some Senators From Greener States

WSJ.com | Jeffrey Ball | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Hydroelectric, U.S. Senate, Senate Republicans, Carbon Credits, Climate Bill, Senate Democrats, Green Energy, Green News

Last week's Senate debate over a bill to cap U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions wasn't much of a cliffhanger. Opponents called the bill too expensive; prop...

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