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Senator to seek vote stopping EPA carbon rules

CTNews — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:45:47 +0000

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.

Analysis – Carbon markets to struggle after Cancun

CTNews — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:45:07 +0000

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.

IEEE tackles carbon reductions, grid storage

CTNews — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:44:54 +0000

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

Let’s have some clear thinking on carbon price

CTNews — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:46:36 +0000

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.

My Year of Living Climatically – Episode 9 – Cutting to the chase with carbon offsets

CTNews — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:48:28 +0000

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.

Icelandic company claims 100% carbon neutral storage

CTNews — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:45:21 +0000

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

Exclude fuel from carbon scheme: Caltex

CTNews — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:45:00 +0000

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

U.S. Election-Year Pressures Might Sink Carbon Cap Legislation, Kerry Says

CTNews — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:45:07 +0000

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.

Carbon offsets and supply chains

CTNews — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:44:59 +0000

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

Carbon Spread Narrows as Traders Bet On Fewer UN Credits: Energy Markets

CTNews — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:45:26 +0000

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.