Policy News
- June 8, 2012
- Tweaking U.S. tax code could spur green energy: senator
- Reuters, Roberta Rampton
- A freshman U.S. Democratic senator thinks he may have found a way to encourage investment in wind, solar and biofuel projects without sapping too many taxpayer dollars or injecting new venom into a bitter partisan battle over energy incentives. Chris Coons introduced legislation on Thursday that would allow a broad ... more ›
- June 4, 2012
- Emissions Fell Under Cap and Trade Program, Report Says
- NY Times, Mireya Navarro
- The cap and trade system known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative announced on Monday that carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the nine participating states on the East Coast fell by an average of 23 percent during the first three years of the program. The pioneering program, known as RGGI (pronounced reggie), sets ... more ›
- June 1, 2012
- When Cleaning Up Power Plants, Time is Money
- NY Times, Matthew Wald
- New rules on pollution from coal plants will cost the American economy $175 billion to $275 billion between now and 2035, according to a new analysis from the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit utility consortium. But the price can be be closer to the lower figure if the government shows flexibility in ... more ›
- May 15, 2012
- As Congress Continues Its Witch Hunt, Here Are Five Things You Should Know About Clean Energy Investments
- Climate Progress, Stephen Lacey
- In an attempt to keep the political war against renewable energy in the headlines, Republicans are holding another hearing to question the value of government investments in the sector. Looks like ten political sideshows on Solyndra weren’t enough. If tomorrow morning’s hearing were being used as a chance to objectively assess where the industry ... more ›
- May 9, 2012
- Microsoft Imposes a Carbon Price on Itself
- Treehugger.com, Brian Merchant
- Microsoft just announced that it will effectively be carbon neutral by the next fiscal year. But the way it plans to do so is much more interesting than your typical “buy a bunch of offsets” emissions-reduction scheme—instead, the company is creating a “carbon price and charge back model” that will levy ... more ›
