CleanTechies News (beta):

Senator John Rockefeller of West Virginia on Thursday said he would seek a vote before the end of the current congressional session on his bill to postpone Environmental Protection Agency regulation of smokestack carbon dioxide emissions for two years.

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Global carbon markets will struggle after the deal reached at annual U.N. climate talks did little to ensure mandatory emissions caps would be extended next year.

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Organization is creating standards for hybrid energy storage systems and for measuring lifecycle CO2 reductions from renewable energy and energy-efficient products.

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The morbid rhetoric is increasing already, ahead of next year’s main game when the new multi-party climate change committee tries to nut out a policy that will put a price on carbon.

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Last month, the challenge I set myself was to reduce my carbon footprint from personal travel — not the kilometres I log every week by car, though that is one of the elephants in the room I guess. No, I decided to take on air travel.

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Iceland company GreenQloud has teamed up with Scality to offer carbon-neutral storage

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Motorists should be excluded from any proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme because it would be ineffective at reducing greenhouse gases, Caltex says.

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U.S. lawmakers might be too focused on elections in November to approve legislation this year that charges power plants and other industrial companies a price for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, said Senator John Kerry , a leading advocate of the pollution-cutting plan.

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LONDON: Intertek, the provider of quality and safety services, launched a programme to offer its clients carbon-offsets for its auditing services in China.

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The gap between carbon permits in the European Union and United Nations markets reached the narrowest in three months on speculation that the world organization will restrict credits for hydrofluorocarbons.

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