ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS (Most Recent first)

Why Burying CO2 Gets Wide Interest Much Is Riding on Pilot Project That Puts Clean-Coal Technology to Test By LEILA ABBOUD April 26, 2007; Page B3 Swedish power company Vattenfall AB is trying to rehabilitate one of the world's dirtiest yet most-used forms of energy -- coal.

Renewable Energy What’s So Bad About Big? By MATTHEW L. WALD New York Times March 7, 2007 “SMALL is beautiful,” wrote the economist E. F. Schumacher almost 35 years ago. In most areas of the economy, he reasoned, production had become too big and too centralized. But he might have been wrong about the subject he knew most about: energy. When it comes to alternative ways of generating power, big may be better.

Global warming A new tree line Apr 12th 2007 From The Economist print edition A climate model suggests that chopping down the Earth's trees would help fight global warming

Home Depot to Display an Environmental Label By MICHAEL BARBARO New York Times April 17, 2007 After squabbling over prices for decades, the nation’s big-box retail chains are ready to battle in a new arena: the environment. Home Depot today will introduce a label for nearly 3,000 products, like fluorescent light bulbs that conserve electricity and natural insect killers, that promote energy conservation, sustainable forestry and clean water.

The Power of Green By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times April 15, 2007 One day Iraq, our post-9/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us — and America will need, and want, to get its groove back. We will need to find a way to reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad and restore America to its natural place in the global order — as the beacon of progress, hope and inspiration. I have an idea how. It’s called “green.”

In Quest for Better Battery, Keep an Ion Nationalism By NORIHIKO SHIROUZU Wall Street Journal April 13, 2007; Page B1 In 2005, General Motors Corp. executives -- blue over their company's less-than-green reputation and envious of eco-darling Toyota Prius -- began searching the world for advanced batteries they hoped would power a new generation of gas-electric hybrid cars.

Car Makers Mobilize Over CO2 Curbs Industry Aims to Shift Potential Economic Pain As Tougher Rules Loom By JEFFREY BALL Wall Street Journal April 9, 2007; Page A6 Auto makers are shifting into high gear to protect themselves under a federal global-warming cap they see around the corner.

Tax on Carbon Emissions Gains Support Industry and Experts Promote It as Alternative to Help Curb Greenhouse Gases By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, April 1, 2007; A05 As lawmakers on Capitol Hill push for a cap-and-trade system to rein in the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, an unlikely alternative has emerged from an ideologically diverse group of economists and industry leaders: a carbon tax.

What Next on Global Warming? By DAVID SCHOENBROD Commentary Wall Street Journal April 5, 2007; Page A12 Now that the Supreme Court has decided that the EPA must deal with global warming under the Clean Air Act, what will happen? Not much, if the past is prologue.

States Want Higher Emissions Bar California Takes Lead In Seeking EPA Waiver For Stricter Standards By JOHN J. FIALKA Wall Street Journal April 4, 2007; Page A6 WASHINGTON -- States are renewing their push for controls on greenhouse gases in the wake of Monday's Supreme Court ruling that the emissions are subject to federal or state regulation.

Court Rulings Could Hit Utilities, Auto Makers White House Strategy Toward CO2 Emissions Is Faulted by Justices By JESS BRAVIN Wall Street Journal April 3, 2007; Page A1 WASHINGTON -- In a decision that could mark a turning point in the national debate over climate change, a divided Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, and that the Bush administration broke the law in its refusal to limit emissions of those gases.

Justices Say EPA Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases By LINDA GREENHOUSE New York Times April 3, 2007 WASHINGTON, April 2 — In one of its most important environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases in automobile emissions. The court further ruled that the agency could not sidestep its authority to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change unless it could provide a scientific basis for its refusal.

Economix Earth’s Climate Needs the Help of Incentives By DAVID LEONHARDT New York Times March 28, 2007 Washington The politicians who deny that global warming is a problem used to be the biggest obstacle to a solution. They’re not anymore. They have lost the argument.

Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms By ANDREW C. REVKIN New York Times April 1, 2007 The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas.

Our Atomic Future By WILLIAM TUCKER Commentary Wall Street Journal March 28, 2007; Page A16

Al Gore recognizes that any solution to global warming is going to require a revival of nuclear power.

Changed Climate on Warming Rep. Dingell, a Recent Convert, Begins Emissions-Bill Hearings By GREG HITT Wall Street journal March 20, 2007; Page A6 WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Dingell once dismissed global warming as a "theory." Lately, the Democratic lawmaker from Michigan has had a change of heart. "The science on this question," he said recently, "has been settled."

The environment Winds of change Mar 9th 2007 From Economist.com The EU unveils bold plans to tackle global warming

Driven into a Corner To clean the air, California can steer old cars and new cars in better directions
By Lloyd Dixon, Steven Garber, and Isaac Porche Rand Review Fall 2002.

Push to Fix Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming By KEITH BRADSHER New York Times March 15, 2007 HONG KONG, March 14 — An unusual coalition of industrial and developing countries began pushing Wednesday for stringent limits on the world’s most popular refrigerant for air-conditioners, as evidence mounts that the refrigerant harms the earth’s ozone layer and contributes to global warming.

Climate change What price carbon? Mar 15th 2007 From The Economist print edition Britain and the EU have learnt from some green-policy mistakes, but not from others

A Future for Fossil Fuel By JOHN DEUTCH and ERNEST MONIZ Commentary Wall Street Journal March 15, 2007; Page A17 The cost of heat energy from coal is $1-$2 per million BTUs, compared to $6-$8 for natural gas and $8-$12 for oil. Where it is plentiful therefore -- as in the United States and China -- coal is the economic fuel of choice for new, electricity-generating power plants at today's fuel prices.

BREEZY TALK The Texas Wind Powers A Big Energy Gamble Shell, Others, Pile In Despite Regulatory Risk; Poke Arnold's 'Rib Eye' By JEFFREY BALL Wall Street Journal March 13, 2007; Page A1 SILVERTON, Texas -- Deep in the heart of Texas, multinational giants are gambling on a new supply of energy. The prize isn't oil. It's wind.

Al Gore’s Outsourcing Solution By GREGG EASTERBROOK Op-Ed Contributor New York Times March 9, 2007 Washington LAST month, to the delight of many global-warming skeptics, it was revealed that Al Gore uses 20 times as much electricity and natural gas at his Tennessee house than the national average. Out of curiosity, I put the former vice president’s power bills and ZIP code through the home-emissions calculator of TerraPass, a company that sells “carbon offsets” — the promise to reduce greenhouse gases by the same amount your behavior increases them.

Plan B for global warming? Mar 8th 2007 From The Economist print edition Environment: “Geo-engineering” is the direct use of technology to counteract climate change. The idea is highly controversial

Businesses Rethink Carbon Curbs By NICK TIMIRAOS Wall Street Journal March 3, 2007; Page A7 A growing number of businesses are calling for federal caps on greenhouse-gases, which could spur Congress to action.

U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions By ANDREW C. REVKIN New York Times March 3, 2007 The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.

An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’ By JOHN TIERNEY New York Times February 27, 2007 Stewart Brand has become a heretic to environmentalism, a movement he helped found, but he doesn’t plan to be isolated for long. He expects that environmentalists will soon share his affection for nuclear power. They’ll lose their fear of population growth and start appreciating sprawling megacities. They’ll stop worrying about “frankenfoods” and embrace genetic engineering.

A Buyout Deal That Has Many Shades of Green By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN New York Times February 26, 2007 About two weeks ago, Fred Krupp, the president of a nonprofit advocacy group called Environmental Defense, received an unusual phone call. William K. Reilly, the former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush, was on the other end. But before Mr. Reilly would explain the reason for his call, he said he needed an assurance from Mr. Krupp that he would keep the conversation confidential.

Economix A Battle Over the Costs of Global Warming By DAVID LEONHARDT New York Times February 21, 2007 New Haven Last week, Sir Nicholas Stern, a top adviser to the British government, came to the United States to talk about climate change. In October, a commission he led released a 700-page report calling for “urgent action” against global warming to prevent economic damage that could rival that of the world wars and the Great Depression. Given its source and its tone, the Stern Review has nudged people to talk more seriously about climate change. In the minds of a lot of American economists, however, the review is a badly flawed piece of work. These economists don’t doubt that earth is getting hotter, that human activity is the cause and that the results could be bad. But they think that Sir Nicholas may have exaggerated the likely speed of warming, among other things, and overstated the case for big, quick action.

Climate Pessimists Were Right Wall Street Journal February 9, 2007; Page B1 In the great climate debate, those who argue that the world is not warming, or that if it is, it's warming naturally, don't like being called "greenhouse skeptics." They're none too fond of "climate contrarians" or "greenhouse deniers," either. Instead, James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, a libertarian research and advocacy group in Chicago, calls himself a "climate realist."

On the Climate Change Beat, Doubt Gives Way to Certainty By WILLIAM K. STEVENS Essay New York Times February 6, 2007

Global-Warming Report Gets U.S. Emphasis By JOHN J. FIALKA Wall Street Journal February 3, 2007; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- U.S. government scientists Friday said the long-term outlook for global warming may be more dire than suggested by this week's United Nations' report, which they say doesn't fully address the impact of clouds and melting glaciers.

Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’ By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and ANDREW C. REVKIN New York Times February 3, 2007 PARIS, Feb. 2 — In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human activity is the main driver, “very likely” causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.

Even Before Its Release, World Climate Report Is Criticized as Too Optimistic By CORNELIA DEAN New York Times February 2, 2007 In its 2001 assessment, its third, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that in the next hundred years sea level would rise globally by at least a few inches and perhaps as much as three feet, a catastrophe for low-lying coastal areas and island nations. In Paris today the panel will issue its fourth assessment, and people familiar with its deliberations say it will moderate its gloom on sea level rise, lowering its worst-case estimate.

Increased Heart Risk Linked to Air Pollution Study of 58,600 Older Women Finds Danger Grows in Cities With Higher Soot Levels From Autos and Power Plants By KEITH J. WINSTEIN Wall Street Journal February 1, 2007; Page D1 Breathing common urban air pollution is much more deadly than previously thought, according to a major study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine.

World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming By JAMES KANTER and ANDREW C. REVKIN New York Times January 30, 2007 PARIS, Jan. 29 — Scientists from across the world gathered Monday to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless there are curbs in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation By ROBERT PEAR New York Times January 30, 2007 The White House said the executive order was not meant to rein in any one agency. But business executives and consumer advocates said the administration was particularly concerned about rules and guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Inside Bush’s Energy Proposals January 27, 2007; Page A7 Wall Street Journal THE MAIN EVENT President Bush last week called on the nation to invest in new technology to reduce dependence on foreign oil. (followed by WSJ editorial)

Potomac Watch If the Cap Fits By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Commentary Wall Street Journal January 26, 2007; Page A10. Washington this week officially welcomed the newest industry on the hunt for financial and regulatory favors. Big CarbonCap may have the same dollar-sign agenda as Big Oil or Big Pharma, but don't expect Nancy Pelosi to admit to it.

Climate change The greening of America Jan 25th 2007 From The Economist print edition How America is likely to take over leadership of the fight against climate change; and how it can get it right AND Green America Waking up and catching up Jan 25th 2007 | AUSTIN, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES AND WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition Belatedly, and for many reasons, America is embracing environmentalism

NEW CONSENSUS In Climate Controversy, Industry Cedes Ground Support Grows for Caps On CO2 Emissions; Big Oil Battles Detroit By JEFFREY BALL Wall Street Journal January 23, 2007; Page A1 The global-warming debate is shifting from science to economics.

From Fall 2004

Landscape Design: To Preserve Forests, Supporters SuggestCutting Some TreesUsing Local Wood, Harvested By 'Sustainable' Methods, Will Help Planet, They Say Biggest Rebound in 1,000 Years By JAMES P. STERBA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 5, 2005; Page A1

When Nature Assaults Itself By ALAN BURDICK OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR New York Times April 22, 2005

The Missing Energy Strategy Editorial New York Times April 19, 2005 The House is moving quickly and with sad predictability toward approval of yet another energy bill heavily weighted in favor of the oil, gas and coal industries. In due course the Senate may give the country something better. But unless Mr. Bush rapidly elevates the discussion, any bill that emerges from Congress is almost certain to fall short of the creative strategies needed to confront the two great energy-related issues of the age: the country's increasing dependency on imported oil, and global warming, which is caused chiefly by the very fuels the bill so generously subsidizes.

Change to the Clean Air Act Is Built Into New Energy Bill By MICHAEL JANOFSKY New York Times April 16, 2005 WASHINGTON, April 15 - Deep in the energy bill that was approved by a House committee this week, under a section titled "Miscellaneous," is a brief provision that could have major consequences for communities struggling to clean up their dirty air.

A Dirty Little Footnote to the Energy Bill by ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO New York Times April 15, 2005 Mr. Henning sees a painful paradox in the situation. Nearly two decades ago, the oil companies were asked to find a gasoline additive (MTBE) that would help cut air pollution. "They were attempting to do the right thing," he said. "But they left an oil spill, an invisible oil spill under the ground. Now they are trying to hide behind Congress rather than deal with the issue."

Energy Bills Are Set for Debate on House Floor By JOHN J. FIALKA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 14, 2005; Page A2 Three House committees put the finishing touches on bills that will be combined and debated on the House floor next week to produce a comprehensive package aimed at increasing production and bringing down the cost of energy in the U.S. Driven by Republican majorities on all three panels, the House measures contain at least three hot-button issues that could face stronger opposition in the Senate, including a partial liability waiver for the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether and a relaxation of interstate air-pollution standards.

Tree Huggers Finally Branch Out By Robert Gottlieb and Janice Mazurek April 10, 2005 Los Angeles Times. Some environmentalists are ready to pronounce their movement dead. As evidence they point to the relentless confidence with which President Bush and Republican majorities in Congress attack long-standing environmental goals, such as protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drillers. In truth, though, the environmental movement's vitality depends on how we define the movement. This is more than a linguistic exercise.

Nukes Are Green By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF OP-ED COLUMNIST New York Times April 9, 2005. But it's time for the rest of us to drop that hostility to nuclear power. It's increasingly clear that the biggest environmental threat we face is actually global warming, and that leads to a corollary: nuclear energy is green.

Car Makers Reach Canadian Accord To Cut Emissions Pact Comes as Companies Fight California on the Same Issue By JEFFREY BALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 5, 2005; Page B2 In a move with potential political repercussions in the U.S., auto makers have agreed to reduce global-warming emissions from the cars and trucks they sell in Canada, the companies and the Canadian government are scheduled to announce today.

Ford to Study How Steps to Curb Global Warming Might Affect It By JEFFREY BALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 31, 2005; Page D7 Ford Motor Co., in the latest move by a big U.S. company to talk up the issue of global warming, is expected to announce today that it will produce a report on how the environmental issue could affect its global business.

Geo-Greening by Example By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN OP-ED COLUMNIST March 27, 2005 New York Times

How will future historians explain it? How will they possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing Social Security? We are, quite simply, witnessing one of the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the history of the U.S. presidency.

Coal in a Nice Shade of Green By THOMAS HOMER-DIXON and S. JULIO FRIEDMANN OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS March 25, 2005 New York Times

New Hampshire Senate to Vote on Approach to Mercury Rule By FELICITY BARRINGER March 24, 2005 New York Times

CONCORD, N.H. - Ron Lacroix has been fishing the waters of southeast New Hampshire - Mendums Pond, Swains Lake, Bow Lake, Spruce Pond - for a little less than half a century. He has made endless meals of fresh-caught black crappie, bass, and smelts and has been the host of endless fish fries. So he was not pleased to find that his fishing grounds and fish contain high levels of mercury, a neurotoxin. These lakes are nestled in one of the country's best-documented mercury "hot spots," places with high concentration levels that experts believe probably come from the emissions of local power plants or other facilities, like incinerators.

Stephen Johnson's Main Task March 21, 2005 New York Times Editorial President Bush recently named a respected 20-year career officer, Stephen Johnson, to run the Environmental Protection Agency

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Come on in Mar 17th 2005 | SEATTLE From The Economist And a-drilling we will go

Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Arctic Reserve By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG March 17, 2005 New York Times WASHINGTON, March 16 - President Bush's long-stalled plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling cleared a major hurdle on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, when the Senate voted to include the proposal in its budget, a maneuver that smoothes the way for Congress to approve drilling later this year.

Senate Links Alaska Drilling Plan to Budget By DAVID ROGERS and RUSSELL GOLD Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 17, 2005; Page A2 The Senate, after years of resistance by environmentalists, endorsed a White House-backed plan to authorize oil exploration in a portion of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

New Rules Set for Emission of Mercury By MATTHEW L. WALD March 16, 2005 New York Times WASHINGTON, March 15 - The Environmental Protection Agency released its final rule on mercury emissions from power plants on Tuesday, asserting that allowing companies to buy and sell the right to pollute would encourage control of the biggest sources of mercury first.

EPA issues rules to cut mercury pollution By John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer | March 16, 2005 WASHINGTON --The Bush administration on Tuesday ordered power plants to cut mercury pollution from smokestacks by nearly half within 15 years but left an out for the worst polluters.

Power Plants Wary of Loading Up On New Antipollution Equipment By JOHN J. FIALKA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 16, 2005; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's new regulations to curb power-plant pollution from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury emissions will create a $50 billion market for antipollution equipment over the next two decades, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Check on the following for more news on new mercury rules.

EPA: http://www.epa.gov/mercury/

Environmental Defense: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm

National Resources Defense Council: http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/050315.asp

Utility to Spend $500 Million on Cleanup By MICHAEL JANOFSKY March 8, 2005 New York Times

Traders Gather for Conference on the World's Newest Trading Commodity: Pollution March 01, 2005 — By Arthur Max, Associated Press AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — With trade booming and prices up, it's no wonder traders are anxious to talk about the world's latest commodity: pollution permits.

Greening Bush Mar 3rd 2005 The Economist An unusual, but sensible, suggestion for the homecoming president

IQ Loss Linked to Mercury Deemed Costly By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 1, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb costs the United States $8.7 billion a year in lost earnings potential, according to a study released Monday by researchers at a New York hospital.

Benefits of Cutting Emissions By Michael Northrop Washington Post Monday, February 28, 2005; Page A17

Even as the Kyoto climate protocol becomes a binding international treaty, an astonishing number of otherwise savvy policymakers continue to think that incentives and programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions will cost too much, hamper competition and stifle economic growth. While such reasoning has kept the United States from mounting any serious response to global warming, others have not waited for political leadership to point the way. In fact, businesses and several governments have moved ahead, often aggressively, to constrain carbon dioxide releases, mostly by using energy more efficiently. In doing so, they are reaping enhanced profitability and robust growth.

Rocky Flats Tread warily, you deer-watchers Feb 24th 2005 | DENVER From The Economist Turning nuclear sites into wildlife refuges isn't that easy

Climate change Oceans apart Feb 24th 2005 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist More evidence that global warming is man-made

Perchlorate Level in Human Milk Exceeds Regulator's 'Safe Dose' By PETER WALDMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL February 23, 2005; Page D5

Highlights the problem the EPA faces in setting the correct safety standard.

Senators Warm Up to Emissions Curbs Key Republicans Ease Opposition As Suspected Climate Change Causes Damage in Alaska By JOHN J. FIALKA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL February 22, 2005; Page A4

Tilting at Windmills By Bill McKibben OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR New York Times February 16, 2005

Clear Skies, No Lies By Gregg Easterbrook OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR New York Times February 16, 2005 This article supports Bush's Clear Skies Initiative. The policy would be better, however, if the caps in the cap-and-trade were a little lower and kicked-in a little sooner. If cap-and-trade mechanisms are so good, and the Acid Rain Program has shown that these programs can be successful, then there is no need to get "weak in the knees" when setting the caps. Firms should have no trouble finding the means to meet satisfy more stringent caps.

Global Warring In Climate Debate, The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off Nonscientist Assails a Graph Environmentalists Use, And He Gets a Hearing: Defenders Call Attack Political By ANTONIO REGALADO Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL February 14, 2005; Page A1

COMMENTARY Snubbing Kyoto: Our Monumental Shame As the world celebrates the global warming pact's debut, Bush continues to pander to the energy industry. By Laurie David. Laurie David is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and co-founder of the Detroit Project, a not-for-profit campaign that pressures automakers to produce fuel-efficient cars. February 11, 2005 LA Times

Carbon Emissions Trading is New Weapon to Battle Global Warming February 10, 2005 — By Brad Foss, Associated Press

Wind farms Breezy Feb 3rd 2005 From The Economist print edition Plans for wind farms multiply faster than evidence that they work

Land-use change Animal, farm Feb 3rd 2005 | PARIS From The Economist print edition New data are finally revealing global patterns of habitat loss

Burial Plan: Deep in the Sahara, BP Tries to Put Dent In Global Warming. Energy Giant, Partners Stuff CO2 a Mile Underground, But Will It Stay There? Too Much Carbon for Perrier By JEFFREY BALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL February 4, 2005; Page A1

Climate change and politics Hotting up Feb 3rd 2005 From The Economist The debate over global warming is getting rancorous

Climate change Hot models Jan 27th 2005 From The Economist print edition How to model the climate on the cheap

CALIFORNIA: Bankruptcy Threat With an Edge. Lumber firm says environmental safeguards are at risk if it can't cut more trees. By Tim Reiterman Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 25, 2005

Report: Global warming near critical point: Drought, crop failure among consequences possible The Associated Press Jan. 24, 2005

GM crops Greener than you thought Jan 20th 2005 From The Economist print edition
Genetically modified sugar beet is good for the environment

Wave’s Environmental Toll: Salt Water, Oil Poison a Lake And Threaten Rice Harvest; Rainforests Are Safe -- For Now By ERIC BELLMAN in Lake Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, and TIMOTHY MAPES in Banda Aceh, Indonesia Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 17, 2005 Asia's killer tsunami

Genetically modified arboriculture: Down in the forest, something stirs Jan 6th 2005 From The Economist print edition GM trees are on their way

Economic Effects of Tsunamis and Other Catastrophes: Economic Effects of Tsunamis and Other Catastrophes- Gary Becker
A Reaction to Posner's Discussion From their blog, January 5, 2005

The Tsunami and the Economics of Catastrophic Risk by Richard Posner (http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/the_tsunami_and.html) From the Posner-Becker blog, January 5, 2005

Cheers, and Concern, for New Climate Pact By LARRY ROHTER and ANDREW C. REVKIN December 13, 2004 New York Times

Alaska and oil One state's free lunch Dec 9th 2004 From The Economist print edition For Alaska, as for Arabia, oil wealth is not all good Oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve near Prudhoe Bay and the controversial Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Energy policy and the environment Heating up at last? Dec 9th 2004 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition The Bush administration may yet oversee a proper debate about energy policy - Companion article to the one above

Automakers Sue to Block Emissions Law in California By DANNY HAKIM December 8, 2004 New York Times

Inhofe Sees Clear Sailing for Clear Skies: Republican Senator Expects Party's Gains To Help Bush's Update of Clean Air Act By JOHN J. FIALKA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 26, 2004; Page A4

Climate change: A canary in the coal mine Nov 11th 2004 From The Economist print edition The Arctic seems to be getting warmer. So what?

As Kyoto Protocol Comes Alive, So Do Pollution-Permit Markets: Funds Handling Trades For Emissions Credits Grow
As Russia Signs Agreement. By JEFFREY BALL, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 8, 2004; Page A2 The market for hot air is suddenly heating up.

Non-financial reporting: Wood for the trees Nov 4th 2004 From The Economist print edition Are company reports on their social and environmental impact any use?

Climate Control: As Planet Heats Up, Scientists Plot New Technologies Appetite for Oil, Coal Drives Search for 'Painless Cure' To Global-Warming Issue Storing Carbon Inside a Rock By ANTONIO REGALADO and JEFFREY BALL Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 22, 2004; Page A1

BUSINESS & Climate change Welcome to Kyoto-land Oct 7th 2004 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition Why European companies may not lose out to their American rivals under the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse-gas emissions

Kyoto a-go-go Sep 30th 2004 From The Economist Global Agenda The Russian government has approved the Kyoto protocol. Once approved by the country’s parliament too, the global climate-change treaty will come into effect. But what effect will it have?
BOOK REVIEW The fishing industry Heading for the final fillet Sep 30th 2004 From The Economist print edition A bleak outlook for fish stocks

Global warming and insurance: Awful weather we're having Sep 30th 2004 From The Economist print edition Why climate change could mean higher insurance premiums

California, Russia Take Steps To Combat Global Warming: Sacramento Adopts Rules On Related Auto Emissions As Moscow Moves on Kyoto. By JEFFREY BALL and GUY CHAZAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 27, 2004; Page A2

Carbon emissions trading: A green future Sep 9th 2004 From The Economist print edition The creation of a new exchange - European Climate Exchange (ECX)

Coal fired electricity: The future is clean Sep 2nd 2004 From The Economist print edition Coal is costly, but coming back into favour—and cleaner

China’s environment: A great wall of waste Aug 19th 2004 | BEIJING, GUANGZHOU, HONG KONG, SHANGBA, SHANGHAI AND TAIHE From The Economist print edition China is slowly starting to tackle its huge pollution problems

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