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Headline	Author	Published	Section
By Our Power Combined California utilities scuffle over cap-and-trade		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:42 AM on 21 Apr 2008 California is well aware that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is easier said than done. The state's attempts to craft an effective cap-and-trade system are causing infighting among public utilities and their privately owned counterparts. Public utilities, which source more of their power from coal, protest that they're going to end up paying out the nose to the state and seeing the money red ...
Topics: business, California, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

Cap and Evade Companies not following through on pledge to lobby for carbon reduction		22 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 22 Feb 2008 Companies participating in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership have pledged to lobby for a mandatory cap on U.S. carbon emissions, but -- and there's always a but -- many of those same corporations are working behind the scenes to undermine greenhouse-gas regulation. Just a few examples: USCAP members General Electric and Caterpillar sit on the board of a group called the Cente ...
Topics: business, climate, Department of Commerce, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics (all these topics)

Why are American automakers special? The Big Three attempt to persuade other states of the danger of fuel efficiency standards	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Automakers are ramping up their PR effort to persuade states not to adopt California's auto emission standards, which they fear will survive the Bush administration's latest monkey wrench. But their arguments are as silly as ever: Dave McCurdy, chief executive of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers ... said the California-inspired initiative would result in a "patchwork quilt of inconsistent and competing fuel economy programs" that would lead t ...
Topics: California, state politics, business, Big Auto, cars, politics, air pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate (all these topics)

Big Ol' Jet Air Whiner Plan to regulate airline emissions moves forward in E.U.		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:26 PM on 21 Dec 2007 A proposed law that would regulate emissions from airlines taking off from or landing in the European Union has been approved by environment ministers. The bill to include airlines in the E.U.'s carbon-trading scheme was scaled back from the version passed by the E.U. Parliament last month, aiming to start in 2012 instead of 2011 and making airlines buy only 10 percent of their carbo ...
Topics: air travel, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

U.S. taxpayers are paying to increase carbon emissions in the developing world Makes total sense!	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
On the one hand, Bush and the Republicans say we're helpless to do anything about global warming until China and India act. On the other hand, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. are funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to huge corporations (think Halliburton and Bechtel) to help them construct carbon-intensive hard infrastructure projects: According to their own reports, the two agencies approved projects in recent years that an ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Cap of Good Hope Biggest energy companies in U.S. call for caps on carbon emissions	Amanda Griscom Little	06 Apr 2006	Muckraker
Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy. A group of high-powered energy and utility executives for the first time issued this directive to Washington: Bring on the carbon caps! The Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard statements from leaders representing eight big energy companies, inc ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Public Nuisance No. 1 A bold lawsuit may have utilities reconsidering their fight against regs	Amanda Griscom	30 Jul 2004	Muckraker
A coal-fired power plant. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey. It may have sounded like the understatement of the year when a lawsuit was filed last week against five major U.S. energy companies, alleged to be among the biggest global-warming culprits in the nation, on the legal grounds that they're causing a "public nuisance." In reality it may have been one of the ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Help Me, I'm Melting! Industry is talking about climate change. Why aren't the presidential candidates?	Ross Gelbspan	29 Sep 2000	Main Dish
Like the nine-foot-deep blanket of ice at the top of the world, America's denial of the climate crisis is melting. In hot water in the Antarctic. Photo: Michael Van Woert, NOAA. And like the North Pole, it is melting from the top down. Over the last year, in the wake of steady alarms from leaders of the insurance industry, growing numbers of oil and auto company ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

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