http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/09/09/315845/natural-gas-switching-from-coal-to-gas-increases-warming-for-decades/?mobile=nc Natural Gas Bombshell: Switching From Coal to Gas Increases Warming for Decades, Has Minimal Benefit Even in 2100 By Joe Romm on Sep 9, 2011 at 5:01 pm A BRIDGE FUEL TO NOWHERE A stunning new study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) concludes: In summary, our results show that the substitution [...]
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Exxon Mobile is again 2nd worst air polluter in the US
Source: Political Economy Research Institute Exxon Mobil owns 60% of CLP Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters (http://toxic100.org), an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the United States. “The Toxic 100 Air Polluters informs consumers and shareholders [...]
Can China Clean Up Its Act?
BusinessWeek by Adam Aston – May 14, 2009 Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_21/b4132040805185.htm?chan=magazine+channel_in+depth Beijing has big plans to curb pollution and start a cleantech industry. But the global recession and looming trade frictions will test its resolve China’s unprecedented growth in recent years has come at a terrible price. Two-thirds of its rivers and lakes are too polluted [...]
Why Global Warming Could Make or Break South-East Asia
Nicholas Stern and Haruhiko Kuroda, The Guardian UK, 5 May 2009 South-east Asia has the most to lose from global warming but could gain much by developing a low-carbon future In the middle of this financial crisis there is a debate taking place over whether governments can afford both massive tax-funded spending programmes needed to [...]
Green Investments Get Pruned
Asian Investor By Simon Osborne | 2 February 2009 Investment in environmental technology and clean energy was a headline maker just a few months ago, on the back of high fossil fuel prices, climate change and wars in the Middle East. Since then the credit crisis has pushed the quest for environmental alpha into the [...]
Turmoil Offers Opportunity To Promote Green Cars
Kandy Wong, SCMP – Updated on Jan 07, 2009 The central government will soon announce the rate cut for consumption tax, which is regarded as a move to further boost sales and entice consumers to buy “green” cars in a weak market. Beijing aims to transform the industry, with zero emissions as the goal in [...]
Clean Coal Best Way To Fuel Asia’s Growth
Frank Ching, SCMP – Updated on Dec 23, 2008 As China this month celebrates 30 years of extraordinary growth, it is also keenly aware that it has had to pay a steep environmental price – in terms of the health of its people because of severe pollution of its air, water and land. Pan Yue, [...]
Energy Goals To Be Overhauled – Nuclear And Wind Power Expected To Get Far More Emphasis For 2020
Stephen Chen, SCMP – Updated on Dec 20, 2008 China’s midterm energy development goals are tipped to change radically early next year with a surge in nuclear and wind power plants. As the central government pushes infrastructural projects to stimulate the economy, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is revising the 20-year road map [...]
Alarm Raised Over Energy, Population
By Doreen Yu, Philstar.com – Updated December 04, 2008 12:00 AM HONG KONG – Before an audience held in rapt attention, Minister-Mentor Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore painted a dire world scenario, both in the short and the long term. In a dialogue with former US President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative-Asia here [...]
Burning Issue For Beijing
Underground coal fires are blazing out of control on the mainland, contributing greatly to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions Tim Johnson – SCMP | Updated on Nov 17, 2008 The barren hillsides give a hint of the inferno underfoot. White smoke billows from cracks in the earth, venting a sulfurous rotten smell into the air. The [...]