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- The Growing Irrelevance of U.S. Climate Policy Fri, 1 Feb 13, 9:17amThe world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year in 2017 than it does today — an amount equal to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined. Today’s Climatewire (subscription...
- Silicon Valley at Significant Risk of Sea Level Rise Due to Climate Change Tue, 1 Jan 13, 7:00amSilicon Valley office building photo from Shutterstock Even the Internet is not immune to the effects of climate change. Many of the world’s most famous tech giants, such as Facebook, Oracle, Google, Intel, and LinkedIn...
- EU Gropes — in Vain — for Carbon Price Sweet Spot Thu, 13 Sep 12, 5:09amTwo stories reprinted in Climatewire today provide a funny reminder that politicians can’t set the ‘right’ price even when the ‘commodity’ is carbon and the goal is saving the planet...
- Green Cheeseheads Oppose Cheaper, Cleaner Canadian Hydro Sat, 21 May 11, 6:17amGreen groups in Wisconsin are attacking a bill that would allow utilities and electric cooperatives to comply with the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) by importing hydroelectricity from Manitoba, Canada,...
- My Subsidy Good, Your Subsidy Bad Thu, 28 Oct 10, 6:02amIn discussions of trade and economic policy, China increasingly plays the role that Japan once did — simultaneously vilified and lionized as both threat and model.