Tag: tax
member name: Sam Carana
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June 26, 2007 02:43 AM EDT --
Global Warming - Tax or Standards?
As global warming becomes an increasingly urgent issue, there are many calls for action. Many call for standards to be set, to achieve a reduction in pollution. . . .
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April 06, 2007 04:05 AM EDT --
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 2nd that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must limit greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
Four Bills are now under discussion in the Senate that . . .
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April 08, 2007 03:30 AM EDT --
There are many things we can all do to reduce our contributions to global warming. Here are ten things politians can do now to make a difference:
1. Tax energy supply that adds extra heat to global . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
The quickest and most effective way to deal with global warming is to tax greenhouse gas emissions and to spend the proceeds to encourage the use of renewable energy locally.
Tax puts a price on pollution . . .
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November 30, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
What can we expect from the United Nations Climate Change Conference , to be held in Bali, from 3 to 14 December 2007?
One outcome could be an international cap and trade system, allowing nations . . .
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January 02, 2008 07:04 AM EST --
How about taxing financial transactions, instead of taxing income, products, inheritances, capital gains or whatever else is being taxed noways? Let's face it, income tax from companies and individuals . . .
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March 20, 2009 04:49 AM EDT --
U.S. Department of energy Announcement
President Obama Announces $2.4 Billion in Funding to Support Next Generation Electric Vehicles
DOE Support for Advanced Battery Manufacturing and . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 AM EDT --
Last Friday, President George W. Bush urged delegates of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to agree on an approach to deal with global warming. "By next summer, we will . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:31 PM EST --
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in many respects underestimated the severity of global warming and the speed at which it strikes. "From 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions . . .
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March 06, 2008 01:08 AM EST --
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) just released its latest report on climate change, called OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
The report projects that world gross . . .
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September 21, 2007 05:08 AM EDT --
The above image is from a NASA news release discussing that interactions with aerosols boost the global warming potential of gases such as methane . A study published in Science by a team led by . . .
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October 01, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006. But while wind power is making steady progress in Europe, the U.S. gets less than 1% of its electricity from wind power,
Spain . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST --
President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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September 17, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Hydrogen fuel cells constitute an efficient way to store energy and as such they form an important component in our struggle to contain global warming. Hydrogen fuel cells are a convenient and clean . . .
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June 09, 2008 05:46 AM EDT --
The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act was defeated in the Senate last Friday. As CNN reports , President Bush said he would have vetoed the Senate bill anyway. So, it looks like major action on . . .
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September 10, 2009 09:14 AM EDT --
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has decided, as French newspaper Le Monde reports: an environmental levy will be introduced with the starting price of 17 euros ($24.8) per ton of CO2.
While the . . .
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September 21, 2007 04:55 AM EDT --
There are many ethical objections one can have against slaughtering animals and eating them. Vegetarian lifestyles have been around for ages, just like animal rights activists have long and very publicly . . .
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May 19, 2009 01:15 AM EDT --
Cycle A: Inorganic Waste
We're all familiar with the idea that we're running out of scarce resources. We just cannot continue to keep drilling and mining for more fossil fuel, metals and . . .
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October 22, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
Reducing greenhouse gases
Reducing greenhouse gases is one of the biggest challenges of our times. The main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
Over half of all greenhouse . . .
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