Julian Robertson, the legendary hedge fund manager, has placed a big bet on the long-term decline of the U.S. economy. Additionally, Robertson is invested in the nuclear energy industry and in Chinese biofuels. He’s also launched an aggressive lobbying campaign to pass federal legislation instituting mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions.Whether his enthusiastic backing of the Al Gore agenda of constricting fossil fuel use is a way to strengthen his bet against the U.S. economy, an effort to boost his nuclear or biofuels positions, or simply — as the media have put it — philanthropy, is hard to decipher
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Students in Fairfax and Arlington counties will soon be selling toxic products as a PTA fundraiser … sort of.
On April 22, Earth Day, the Bright Futures Project of Fairfax and Arlington county schools launches a two-week drive to replace one incandescent bulb with one compact fluorescent light bulb for each child enrolled in those school systems — 167,000 bulbs in Fairfax County and 18,600 in Arlington.
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
To date the attorneys, regulators and bureaucrats having the most fun and earning the most money from the global warming mytheria have been those involved in utilities and transportation, and frankly, the ones who deal with land use planning are a little miffed and feeling kind of left behind.
Well, their time is now. Coming along on May 5 & 6 is a “comprehensive conference” in Tarrytown, NY, titled, “Climate Change and Land Use: Global warming impacts on land use planning and project approvals,” described thusly:
California, Washington, Oregon and Massachusetts have all passed legislation seeking to regulate GHG emissions in private development and environmentally sensitive projects through their environmental review process. California has passed a landmark statute, AB 32, which requires local governments to consider global warming impacts as part of their planning processes. The settlement agreement between the state and San Bernardino County sheds some light on how the state plans to implement that policy. There is a growing list of other pioneering efforts by local governments that we will address.
For this first-of-its-kind conference, we have assembled experts from early adopter jurisdictions around the country, as well as leading New York land use professionals, to provide insights for the local governments attorneys, planners, consultants and developers. Hear about the factors that go into a successful regulatory program, the appropriate scope of local review in the Hudson River Valley and surrounding regions, and the best way for developers to respond to the concerns leading to these new regulations.
Attorneys, local governments attorneys, planners, engineers, consultants and developers are beckoned to attend and learn how the rent seeking is done.
Here is a list of beliefs in the biomedical and climate sciences that must not be questioned if you're applying for a government grant: That global warming is caused by humans; That AIDS is caused by a virus;That radiation, cigarette smoke and other toxins are dangerous in proportion to their strength, no matter how small the dose;That heart disease is caused by saturated fats; That cancer is caused by mutations.
Forty-eight percent of Americans are unwilling to spend even a penny more in gasoline taxes to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new nationwide survey released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet Indian political and business leaders on Wednesday to urge them to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
While the U.S. tries to figure out how to fight climate change, and how much it will cost, Japan is crunching the numbers on what it will cost to meet the commitments it’s already made.
The upshot, according to a new study presented today by Japan’s trade ministry? Picking the low-hanging fruit will lead to modest cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. But it would carry a hefty price tag and still won’t be enough for Japan to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, let alone its more ambitious targets for mid-century.
Japanese households and businesses could end up paying more than $500 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 11 percent over the next decade, the trade and industry ministry said Wednesday.
A bill to slash Maryland's carbon emissions as a way to address global warming was delayed Wednesday by senators who feared the bill could hike energy prices and put factories out of business.
For the first time in the U.S., carbon dioxide goes on sale in September — and the bidding will start at $1.86 a ton. A consortium of 10 states, including Connecticut, said Monday it will hold the first auction of carbon emissions "allowances" on Sept. 10, part of a plan to curb greenhouse gases from the region's power plants and slow global warming.
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