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Falling Carbon Prices Jeopardize Clean Energy Interest

Falling Carbon Prices Jeopardize Clean Energy InterestThe economic slump and new green technology are accounting for a significant drop in carbon prices, Wall Street Journal reports. And to cut down on costs for carbon-emission ...

January 26, 2009

EIA Releases ‘Annual Energy Outlook 2009′

EIA Releases ‘Annual Energy Outlook 2009′The Energy Information Administration released their Annual Energy Outlook 2009, presenting a number of U.S. energy consumptions and production projections for the next few decades. Some ...

January 21, 2009

Economic Slowdown Continues To Drive Recycling Industry Down

Economic Slowdown Continues To Drive Recycling Industry DownJerry Powell, editor of Resource Recycling magazine told Popular Mechanic that recycled materials have dropped about two-thirds to three-quarters in value. The price of recycled polyethylene terephthalate plastics plummeted from $396 ...

January 15, 2009

Dirty Coal A Likely Winner in 2009

Dirty Coal A Likely Winner in 2009As the financial crisis continues, most people think of the job cuts and profit losses, but the global environment may be one of the biggest losers in the current economic downturn, Newsweek ...

January 6, 2009

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular StoriesWith 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...

January 5, 2009

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 EmissionsClif Family Winery partnered with NativeEnergy to launch Green My Shipment, which adds $0.25 per bottle to help offset CO2 emissions generated by the packaging and shipment of orders. The winery says ...

December 3, 2008

U.K. Gov. Reaps $81 M in First Auction of CO2 Permits

U.K. Gov. Reaps $81 M in First Auction of CO2 PermitsEurope held its first auction of carbon dioxide permits last week. The U.K. government reaped about $81 million from sales of 4 million permits, which allow buyers to emit carbon under the ...

November 24, 2008

Alternative Energy Use For Manufacturers Promising, Cost Still A Hurdle

Alternative Energy Use For Manufacturers Promising, Cost Still A HurdleJames Lee, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, recently spoke with IndustryWeek about the pros and cons of alternative energy use in manufacturing. Lee says that manufacturers are investing ...

November 14, 2008

NY Proposes 6-Cent Surcharge For Plastic Shopping Bags

NY Proposes 6-Cent Surcharge For Plastic Shopping BagsNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for a 6-cent fee for every plastic shopping bag given to shoppers, with 1 cent going to the retailer and 5 cents going to the ...

November 10, 2008

Financial Crisis Could Make Complying With EU Carbon Plan Easier

Financial Crisis Could Make Complying With EU Carbon Plan Easier With EU firms cutting production and selling off excess carbon permits allocated by national governments, the global financial crisis may make it cheaper for corporations in Europe to comply with EU's ...

October 27, 2008

Credit Suisse To Offer CO2 Deal Worth About $200 Million

Credit Suisse To Offer CO2 Deal Worth About $200 MillionPaul Ezekiel, Credit Suisse's head of carbon trading, told a conference this week that the bank will offer a structured carbon emissions deal next month worth about $200 million. According Ezekiel, the ...

October 23, 2008

Drop In Oil Prices Dulls Enthusiasm For Renewable Energy

Drop In Oil Prices Dulls Enthusiasm For Renewable EnergyAs oil prices soared, investors looked into renewable energy. But now that oil prices have dropped below $70 a barrel, from $147 in July, the key rationale for investors to pump cash ...

October 21, 2008

California’s Carbon Plan Moves Closer To Reality

California’s Carbon Plan Moves Closer To RealityCalifornia environmental regulators recently released a near-final version of California's plan to reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, which will go before the California Air Resources Board for approval ...

October 16, 2008

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?Greentech investment experts at GoingGreen discuss how much it will cost the U.S. economy to go carbon neutral.

October 2, 2008

RGGI Sells All Carbon Permits At First Mandatory CO2 Auction

RGGI Sells All Carbon Permits At First Mandatory CO2 AuctionThe Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) announced that all 12.5 million carbon permits were sold at its first cap-and-trade auction. Fifty-nine participants from the energy, financial and environmental sectors took ...

September 29, 2008

RGGI Holds First Mandatory CO2 Auction

RGGI Holds First Mandatory CO2 AuctionThe Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the first mandatory cap-and-trade auction in the U.S., opens Thursday. It is expected reduce CO2 emissions by 10 percent in ten years, MarketWatch reports. CO2 ...

September 25, 2008

German Industry: EU’s CO2 Plan Brings Sky-high Carbon Taxes

German Industry: EU’s CO2 Plan Brings Sky-high Carbon TaxesEnergy user's group VIK recently told Reuters that Germany must push for change in how financial burdens of tighter carbon trading rules set for 2012 should be shared among European countries. “The ...

September 17, 2008

Storage Businesses Tap Sun For Power

Storage Businesses Tap Sun For PowerIn Yuma, Arizona, AA Val-U-Stor owner Mike Perry recently finished installing a 56 kilovolt, direct current photo voltaic solar system by United Sustainable Energy on two buildings. Since the system went online in early September, ...

September 17, 2008

GE: Extend Clean Energy Tax Credits Or We’ll Go To Germany, China

GE: Extend Clean Energy Tax Credits Or We’ll Go To Germany, ChinaGeneral Electric Energy's John Krenicki recently pleaded with senators to extend tax credits for renewable energy (see transcript below), which are set to expire at the end of the year. If they ...

September 15, 2008

UK Lighting Industry Violates eWaste Laws

UK Lighting Industry Violates eWaste LawsDespite an official warning from the government last August, manufacturers and wholesalers of fluorescent lamps in the UK continue to impose a 16p (about 28 cents) per unit charge on customers to cover compliance costs ...

September 13, 2008