Offsets Blasted in CDM-Watch Report
08/30/2010 by Charles Komanoff
Offsets Blasted in CDM-Watch Report (NYT – Green blog)
Archive for the ‘Offsets’ Category
EPA EMPLOYEES BLOW THE WHISTLE ON FLAWED CLIMATE BILLS
07/22/2010 by James Handley
EPA Employees Blow The Whistle on Flawed Climate Bills (PEER)
Reaching for a longer spoon
06/6/2010 by James Handley
Nature Conservancy, EDF, Conservation Int’l, Pew, NRDC, WRI Scramble to Explain BP Ties (Economist)
Ten Ways to Game the Carbon Market
05/19/2010 by James Handley
Ten Ways to Game the Carbon Market (Friends of Earth, Michelle Chan)
The American Power Act: Kerry’s and Lieberman’s Climate Junk Shot
05/13/2010 by James Handley
Kerry & Lieberman’s Climate Junk Shot (Erich Pica — Huff Post)
Citizens Climate Lobby: 350 Goal Won’t be Won with Kerry-Lieberman
05/12/2010 by Charles Komanoff
Citizens Climate Lobby: 350 Goal Won’t be Won with Kerry-Lieberman (HuffPo)
ClimateWire Summarizes Kerry-Lieberman Bill
05/12/2010 by Charles Komanoff
ClimateWire Summarizes Kerry-Lieberman Bill (NYT)
Don’t Throw Our 40-Year Old “Grandmother” of Environmental Law (the Clean Air Act) Under the Train!
04/5/2010 by James Handley
While watching Congress make climate legislation “sausage,” it’s easy to forget that the process was jolted to life three years ago when a scrappy group of environmentalists and states won a suit against EPA. The Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are indeed “air pollutants” within the meaning of the Clean Air Act, putting EPA’s gears into motion. The first result of the case was EPA’s new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, issued last week. The Massachusetts v. EPA decision also helped nudge legislators to do something “better” than EPA regulation.
Last spring, the House passed the Waxman-Markey (W-M) bill which: discarded candidate Obama’s 
promise of full permit auctioning and instead gave away 85% of the allowances (lion’s share to utilities); larded polluters with two billion tons of offsets, enough to overwhelm any near term constraint on emissions that (the roughly six billion ton/yr) “cap” might have imposed, and ignored the Ways & Means Committee’s hearings and proposals for direct CO2 pricing. W-M appeased big agribusiness by throwing in special rules for biofuels so the industry wouldn’t have to actually reduce net emissions and cut out EPA oversight over agricultural offsets. Finally, over the objections of just a few green and public interest groups, W-M jettisoned EPA’s Clean Air Act authority over greenhouse gases. With muscular arm twisting, W-M passed the House by the slimmest of margins.
Industries Hoarding Greenhouse Gas Emission Permits
03/14/2010 by James Handley
Industries Hoarding Greenhouse Gas Emission Permits (Common Dreams)
James Hansen and climate solutions
03/14/2010 by James Handley
James Hansen: Tax Carbon, Return Revenue with “Green Check” (GL, Australia)
