Cross-posted from UCS' blog The Equation. As Massachusetts residents dig themselves out of the fourth Nor’easter in the past three weeks, policy leaders on Beacon Hill are beginning to dig in to some of the critical questions that will … [Read more...]
Why Cap and Invest Is the Right Solution for Massachusetts Transportation
With the Baker administration announcing new listening sessions to reduce pollution from transportation I wanted to cross-post this blog post from UCS' The Equation on the need for a cap and invest program covering transportation in … [Read more...]
Northeast Climate Compact Keeps Proving Carbon Cap and Trade Works Really Well
The U.S. Senate Republican minority used the filibuster to block the majority from passing a carbon cap and trade program in 2010, because FREEDOM, or something. So a group of Northeast states went ahead with it anyway and it continues to … [Read more...]
NH Moves to Withdraw from RGGI
It looks like the NH house voted to withdraw NH from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative which is bad news. RGGI's not perfect, but as far as I can tell, it's worked pretty well. I'm not bothered by NH doing something libertarian, that's … [Read more...]
The bigger issue in NYC (not Iran)
The frenzy in NYC over the Iranian president's visit should not overshadow the critical week at the UN in discussions about how to move forward as the first cycle of the Kyoto Protocol ends.Clearly the US needs to adopt something like RGGI … [Read more...]
Washington Post: Inaction on Warming will be Costly
The study, called "Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast." was done by Cambridge, MA based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), 50 scientists and economists and was peer-reviewed. It's the most in-depth report produced to … [Read more...]
New Warnings on Climate Change: Revkin
Note the estimate is now "90% probablity" of being human caused. And remember, that the feared doubling of CO2 is merely an arbitrary number. There is no reason, based on current trends, that the buildup of CO2 would stop there. And, as the … [Read more...]
Senate Climate Change Plans
David Roberts at Grist posts 4 bills or plans being talked about in the US Senate. Seems to me we need "something equal to the task at hand".Mediocre Emissions Limits + Nuke Subsidies: The McCain-Lieberman Bill, now cleverly rebranded the … [Read more...]
RGGI: Romney Yanks, Patrick Restores
There's a great story on the electronic front page of The Boston Globe today on which I'd love wax eloquent (and have) but I need to scoot into Cambridge.:Massachusetts back in RGGI after Romney yanked us out!! (my headline, not … [Read more...]
U.N.: Global Warming Leadership Thin
Time to get off the mark and do something, locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.Tuesday, Jan. 09, 2007U.N.: Global Warming Leadership ThinBy AP/JENNY BARCHFIELDThe chief of the United Nations' effort against climate change said … [Read more...]