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Let’s call it pollution reduction, plain talk from Senator Kerry
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
So often politicians obscure their message with caveats, euphemisms and wonky references to elaborately named legislation.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) took the conversation a different direction yesterday when speaking to student activists assembled for an online teleconference Tuesday night sponsored by Consequence09.org.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, cap-and-trade, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, controlling carbon emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, pollution reduction, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. John Kerry
Sustainable palm oil? Not so fast…
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
Palm Oil, an ingredient found in most processed food, has been the subject of much environmental debate in recent years over its role in deforestation. It is commonly found in cooking oil and as an ingredient in cosmetics, soaps, detergents, and some plastics. Palm oil also has been considered for use in the production of biodiesel.
 There have been many attempts to make palm oil sustainable. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was even established in 2003 to do just that. Unfortunately, six years later, there is still no system that can effectively trace palm oil beyond the processor to the plantation level. Companies that manufacture products using palm oil have little way of knowing where the controversial substance originated — which leaves the question of whether and to what degree palm oil is sustainably farmed up in the air.
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Tags: · Advertising Standards Authority, Borneo, Carbon Emissions, deforestation, Friends of the Earth, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Malaysia, Malaysian Palm Oil Council, orangutan, palm oil, palm tree plantations, Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, Sumatra, tropical rainforest, United National Environment Programme, World Wildlife Fund
Poll finds that a majority of Americans support climate change regulation
From Green Right Now Reports:
A majority of Americans – about 75 percent – support regulating greenhouse gases from power plants, cars and manufacturing that would reduce global warming, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
But only a bare majority – 52 percent – support a cap-and-trade approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and 42 percent oppose such a program, which is the type of approach taken in the Waxman-Markey climate legislation expected to be voted on in the US House of Representations, possibly Friday.
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Tags: · ABC News, Air Pollution, American Clean Energy and Security Act, cap-and-trade, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, poll, Washington Post, Waxman-Markey
Wind power grew 29 percent in 2008; U.S. leads in wind capacity
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Global wind power installations grew by 29 percent in 2008, exceeding past performance and bringing the world’s commercial wind power capacity to 120,798 megawatts
Wind now produces 1.5 percent of the world’s electricity with 80 countries using commercial wi nd power, according to an analysis by the Worldwatch Institute released this week.
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Tags: · China, clean energy, Germany, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, India, natural gas, Spain, U.S., Wind energy, Wind Power, World Watch Institute
EPA lauds 25 U.S. cities with most Energy Star Buildings
By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized 25 U.S. cities for having the most Energy Star buildings in 2008.
The top 10 are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and Seattle.
Los Angeles ranked first with 262 buildings earning the Energy Star rating, which can be applied to rehabbed and new properties. San Francisco had 194 buildings; Houston, 145; Washington D.C., 136 and Dallas, 126.
Energy Star, the EPA’s label for high efficiency, sets standards for everthing from light bulbs and appliances to buildings.
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Tags: · Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Energy Star, Galleria North Tower, Green Valley ELementary, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Houston, J.C. Penney, LEED, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seatle, U.S. Green Building Council, Washington DC
U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions increased in 2007
By John DeFore
To judge from the coverage of Earth-friendly measures and green innovations in the news, you might think that ever since An Inconvenient Truth Americans have been moving, however slowly, toward addressing the causes of climate change.
Not so fast. According to the Department of Energy’s independent number-crunching agency the Energy Information Administration, greenhouse gas emissions in the United States actually rose in 2007 to a level 1.4 percent above the previous year. What’s more, that growth was higher than the average annual growth recorded since 1990.
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Tags: · Energy Information Administration, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, U.S.
The carbon competition: US and China both take black
By Barbara Kessler
In the race for top carbon emissions polluter, the United States is still Number One, but China is sprinting forward and could soon edge into the lead. The current Olympics host nation accounted for a “staggering 57 percent of the growth of emissions” worldwide this century, and will likely surpass the U.S. [...]
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Tags: · Carbon, China, CO2, coal, Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, oil, U.S.
California Wants EPA To Regulate Aircraft, Ship Emissions
By Barbara Kessler
California is at it again. The state stickler for clean air, which tried to regulate car emissions but was blocked by the federal EPA in late 2007, is now asking the feds to regulate pollution from aircraft, ships and off-road vehicles.
CA attorney Jerry Brown said that California, joined by other states and [...]
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Tags: · California, Clean Air, EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation
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