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The state now has the first system in the nation to give polluting companies such as utilities and refineries financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases. But some businesses that would fall under the new rules say the system could dampen California’s already flagging economy.

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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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System Would Give Polluting Companies Financial Incentives to Emit Fewer Greenhouse Gases

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Panel OKs key piece of California’s 2006 climate law — called AB32 — with the hope that other states will follow the lead of the world’s eighth largest economy

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Hoping other states will follow suit, California regulators overwhelmingly approved the nation’s most extensive system giving owners of power plants, refineries and other major polluters financial incentives to emit…

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Big utilities want Idaho to tighten regulations they say allow alternative energy producers – especially wind farms – to take advantage of existing rules to accelerate their developments and reap higher electricity prices.

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When offshore wind farms have been discussed along the lakeshore, the debate has centered on how the turbines would look and whether they would kill birds.

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U.S. EPA released proposed rules today for smog and soot-forming emissions from power plants, setting up the start of a rulem…

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DENVER – Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper sought to ease the fears of environmentalists Wednesday, telling gas and oil executives that if he is elected governor, he would not roll back rules for their industry that Gov. Bill Ritter initiated.

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In a boost for the president on global warming, the Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters.

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