Tag: carbon

  • Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Octo­ber 2014 Car­bon tax­es are emerg­ing as a major top-down cli­mate solu­tion envi­ros would like to see come out of Con­gress.  Plen­ty of “tax car­bon” signs were present in the 400,000-strong People’s Cli­mate March in New York City last month.  Even U.N. Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Ban Ki-moon is urg­ing nations to adopt…

  • Study: Logging Destabilizes Forest Soil Carbon

    - by John Cramer, Decem­ber 2, 2014, Dart­mouth College Log­ging does­n’t imme­di­ate­ly jet­ti­son car­bon stored in a forest’s min­er­al soils into the atmos­phere but trig­gers a grad­ual release that may con­tribute to cli­mate change over decades, a Dart­mouth Col­lege study finds. The results are the first evi­dence of a region­al trend of low­er car­bon pools in soils…

  • California Lawsuit Seeks Pollution Cuts From Massive Tree-burning Power Plant

    - by Kevin Bundy, August 22, 2014, Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diversity The Cen­ter for Bio­log­i­cal Diver­si­ty filed a law­suit today chal­leng­ing a Clean Air Act per­mit issued by the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency for a mas­sive, 31-megawatt bio­mass pow­er plant pro­posed by Sier­ra Pacif­ic Indus­tries in Ander­son, Calif. The chal­lenge, filed direct­ly in the 9th Cir­cuit U.S.…

  • Supreme Court Issues Decision on EPA’s GHG Tailoring Rule

    - by Erin Voegele, June 24, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its deci­sion on the U.S. EPA’s Tai­lor­ing Rule. While the court inval­i­dat­ed a por­tion of the rule, it essen­tial­ly held up EPA’s abil­i­ty to reg­u­late green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions for cer­tain facil­i­ties, specif­i­cal­ly those required to obtain a Pre­ven­tion…

  • EPA Begins to Address Biomass Emissions in Permits Following Court Decision

    - by Andrew Childers, March 28, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­ment Reporter The Envi­ron­men­tal Appeals Board par­tial­ly remand­ed an air pol­lu­tion per­mit for a waste-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in Puer­to Rico after it failed to account for green­house gas emis­sions from biomass. The Ener­gy Answers Areci­bo LLC per­mit is one of the first to address emis­sions from bio­mass in the wake of…


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