July 29, 2014
Inslee to lay out ideas for cap-and-trade, carbon tax
By John Stang, Originally published by Crosscut Gov. Jay Inslee is putting a cap-and-trade system and a carbon tax into play as ways to tackle the fallout from global warming in Washington. Those are the two propositions that an Inslee-appointed carbon emissions advisory task force will begin studying today, according to a document posted on the governor’s […]

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June 4, 2014
China plan to cap CO2 emissions seen turning point in climate talks
BY KATHY CHEN AND STIAN REKLEV, REUTERS Original article here. China said on Tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its CO2 emissions from 2016 just a day after the United States announced new targets for its power sector, signalling a potential breakthrough in tough U.N. climate talks. Progress in global climate negotiations has often […]

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May 23, 2014
McCarthy Touts Collaborative Effort In Developing Power Plant Emissions Rule
Friday, May 23, 2014 from Energy and Climate Report By Paul Shukovsky May 22 –The Environmental Protection Agency has written its proposed rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants with collaboration in mind and will continue listening to interested parties, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said May 22 in Seattle. Speaking in advance of the […]

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May 20, 2014
Inslee wants to wean state’s electric utilities off coal
By Phuong Le, Associated Press With an abundant supply of hydroelectric power, Washington state currently gets less than 14 percent of its electricity from coal. Gov. Jay Inslee wants to take that down to zero over time. To wean the state off coal-generated power, the Democratic governor will have to persuade the state’s three private electric […]

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May 1, 2014
Meet the Governor's new climate change attack plan
  By John Stang, Crosscut Gov. Jay Inslee’s executive order Tuesday to tackle carbon emissions in Washington is more of a push than a flat-out mandate. The order created an advisory task force to give him advice by Nov. 21 on preparing his climate change agenda for the 2015 legislative session. And the executive order “asks” […]

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April 17, 2014
Mitigation of Climate Change – Part 3 of the new IPCC report
By Brigitte Knopf, published on Real Climate Global emissions continue to rise further and this is in the first place due to economic growth and to a lesser extent to population growth. To achieve climate protection, fossil power generation without CCS has to be phased out almost entirely by the end of the century. The […]

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April 7, 2014
Wind Power Has Cut U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 4.4%
By Kate Sheppard, Huffington Post The growth of wind power in the United States is putting a significant dent in emissions, according to a forthcoming report from the American Wind Energy Association. Wind generation avoided 95.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2013, which is equivalent to taking 16.9 million cars off the road. […]

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April 1, 2014
US Clean Tech Sector Attracts Investment from Abroad
By Erin Ailworth, Boston Globe Foreign investors are pouring millions of dollars into US alternative energy companies, seeking new technologies and markets even as enthusiasm for the once hot industry wanes among their American counterparts. Last week, for example, Japan’s NEC Corp. paid roughly $100 million for a Westborough-based division of the advanced battery maker A123 Systems […]

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January 31, 2014
WA State Senate explores alternative global warming viewpoints
By John Stang, originally published by Crosscut Temperatures are rising on Mars. Jupiter too. And on Triton, the largest of Neptune’s 14 moons. And none of these solar system bodies has any sport utility vehicles driving around on their surfaces. This is what climate change expert Jay Lehr, a physicist with the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, told the […]

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January 23, 2014
CLEW Update: Senator Ericksen and Rep. Short Submit Letter and Recommendations
To view the letter click here. To read the full report click here. SUMMARY Recommended Policies: Incentivize hydroelectric power generation Replace fossils fuels with nuclear generation Promote research and development (R&D) for new technologies Encourage conservation under the Energy Independence Act (I-937) Allow renewable energy credit banking under I-937 Modify fuel mix reporting system Proposals […]

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