The European Union's emissions trading scheme, seen as the bloc's trump card in reducing greenhouse gases, allocated several companies higher emissions quotas than they actually needed, it was learned Monday.
Julie Walsh
A new generation of nuclear power stations will be encouraged to supply unlimited amounts of electricity to the national grid, The Times has learnt.
The Cabinet will give the go-ahead for the new building programme today and John Hutton, the Business Secretary, will announce the decision on Thursday.
I'd like to anticipate the new year's unfolding economic events with excitement and optimism, but uneasiness better describes my mind-set. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will announce a decision Wednesday on whether to list the polar bear as "endangered."
On Wednesday, January 2, California, along with 15 other states, sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging EPA unlawfully rejected California's request to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions more stringently than national standards.
In rejecting California's request, EPA noted greenhouse gas emissions do not have any state-specific qualities and are best addressed through national and international policy. Accordingly, California failed to show the "compelling and extraordinary" circumstances required for states to obtain an EPA waiver.
First the credit crunch, now the energy crunch. Just as household electricity bills go stratospheric the first coal-fired power station to be built in Britain for more than 30 years has been approved by Medway Council in Kent. The £1 billion plant at Kingsnorth, near Ashford, will be coal-burning – and carbon-producing – so is hardly an example to India or coal-rich China on how not to overheat the planet. But it will be built if only for one reason – to keep the lights on in the south of England.
The European Commission is considering proposing a carbon dioxide tariff on imports from states failing to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, while also considering a toughening-up of the EU's own emission trading system.
According to a draft commission proposal, firms from heavily polluting countries outside Europe would be obliged to buy EU carbon emission permits as part of the bloc's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), Reuters reports.
The former House Speaker’s latest book, "A Contract with the Earth" co-authored with Palm Beach Zoo CEO Terry Maple, is an appalling paean to environmental naivete and taxpayer-subsidized profiteering.
While the book’s theme — i.e., let’s all just happily pitch in and do what it takes to save the environment — may sound reasonable, at least on a superficial basis, Mr. Gingrich’s notions are often wrong or simply bizarre, and his prescriptions amount to little more than a full embrace of rent-seeking "green" business and left-leaning eco-activist groups, both of which often masquerade as "protectors" of the environment.
The stark headline appeared just over a year ago. "2007 to be 'warmest on record,' " BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government's Meteorological Office, the story announced that "the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007," surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998. But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.
First we see that predictions of 2008 temperatures – as the fourth straight year of global cooling – is further confirmation of a warming trend. This just makes sense coming two weeks after the BBC informed us that the third straight year proved the very same thing. If this is warming, I’m not sure we can afford much more of it.
Of course, one might think we had learned our lesson about making January predictions about the year’s weather.
Even better, we hear news of a “First-ever study to link increased mortality specifically to carbon dioxide emissions”. It’s about time, the alarmists have been claiming this connection for years, and it looked like they may be forced to give up the ship.
Quite a dynamic field for being “settled”.
Do polar bears, which have become the poster child for the potential ravages of future global warming, need special protection from Uncle Sam now?
Chris Tollefson of the Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency responsible for protecting wildlife and their habitats, said the agency's recommendation is due by Jan. 9.
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