The United States Environmental Protection Agency has found itself the target of significant criticism and vitriol over the last year, and a new bill introduced by Florida representative Matt Gaetz is looking to terminate the EPA altogether.
If the Republican party does succeed in filibustering landmark climate legislation that Majority Leader Senator Reid brings to a vote this month, we will end the world as we have known it. This Earth will become what Bill McKibben calls Eaarth, a unknown new planet, with temperature and other changes … [continued]
[social_buttons] A new macroeconomics analysis shows that if you want to create jobs and boost the economy, one of the best things you can do at the moment is enact strong, smart climate change and clean energy policy.
[social_buttons] In just a few days, the long-awaited climate and clean energy jobs bill from Senators Graham (R-SC), Kerry (D-MA), and Lieberman (I-CT) will be unveiled and all over the news. There has been a lot of speculation on what the bill will or won’t include, as well as a … [continued]
Waiting for the Senate to move forward on climate and clean energy legislation seems like waiting for the Polar Express. A wide variety of parties from every corner of society seem to be getting anxious, though, and are pushing on Congress to get moving. From rappers to Iraq veterans … [continued]
In a simple step, using basic social-psychology, utilities could create a nearly immediate cut in electricity usage. And I think it could be a big one. British conservative, David Cameron, explains the idea quickly speaking at a TED conference recently (10:53 into the speech). With a backround in sociology, I … [continued]
As California moves to implement cap and trade to reduce harmful greenhouse gases, the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy and the Environment has published a new study designed to help lawmakers in California fine-tune the legislation. [social_buttons] As with the studies by the German Marshall Fund with its Ten … [continued]
[social_buttons] The UK Climate Change Act, introduced in 2008, is now bearing fruit and thus providing the seeds for similar legislation in over a dozen other European countries. Friends of the Earth and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been hosting a series of seminars in European embassies lately … [continued]
It’s official. The EU trading system got carbon emissions down. It’s one thing when renewable energy writers on blogs like this say cap and trade has transformed Europe. [social_buttons] We regularly cover the huge wind and solar industries created there – the results of Europe’s early adoption of the Kyoto … [continued]
An attempt to overthrow California’s progressive climate bill AB32 has been slowed down by Attorney General Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate to be the post-Schwarzenegger governor of California. Republican lawmaker Dan Logue and co-drafter and anti-tax agitator Ted Costa want an initiative on the ballot to kill AB32 (crafted to … [continued]
