States that have been leaders when it comes to embracing state cap-and-trade green house gas emissions programs, are now facing a variety of hurdles due to state and federal politics, economics, and lawsuits.
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Ucilia Wang
May 31, 2011 - 2:10 PM PST
Today marks the first day of a 45-day period for the public to comment on a program to force polluters to cap their carbon emissions starting in 2012, and the proposed rules will give away lots of free permits rather than auctioning them.
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Ucilia Wang
Nov 1, 2010 - 12:40 PM PST
Two weeks from now, voters will decide which federal and state politicians to keep and which to send packing. Here is a list of hot issues and challenges facing cleantech advocates as they lobby for their favorite causes in the coming year.
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Ucilia Wang
Oct 21, 2010 - 2:00 PM PST
Just don’t call it a cap and trade program. That’s what three Senators — John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman — are trying to avoid when they introduce a paired down Senate energy bill, reportedly as soon as Monday.
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Katie Fehrenbacher
Apr 23, 2010 - 8:20 AM PST
In early 2007, the Council of Public Relations Firms (CPRF) and APCO Worldwide partnered to learn more about interactions and relationships between…
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Aliza Sherman
Feb 18, 2010 - 11:00 AM PST
Welcome to the Technosphere: “Having mastered indoor ski slopes and mass desalination, Dubai just unveiled its massive Technosphere, a biological bubble oddly…
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Josie Garthwaite
Nov 2, 2009 - 12:30 PM PST
Cap and Trade’s Biggest Losers: A new report by energy consultants Wood Mackenzie finds “cap-and-trade legislation will cost U.S. refiners about $100…
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Josie Garthwaite
Oct 26, 2009 - 5:00 PM PST
You may have heard of Spotify, the European music streaming app whose mystique has only deepened due to its unavailability in the…
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Liz Gannes
Sep 1, 2009 - 11:46 AM PST
Remember how in 2006, Apple (s aapl) tried to stop Podcast Ready, Inc. from using the word “podcast” because it infringed on…
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liamc
Jul 30, 2009 - 6:00 PM PST
Hilarious. Please watch. Last night Jon Stewart pointed out (in that way that only he can pull off: half ridiculous, half totally…
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Katie Fehrenbacher
Jul 22, 2009 - 7:24 AM PST
Updated: We’ve heard from a couple of our sources that President Obama is forming an advisory council on energy and economic policy…
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Amy Westervelt
Jul 2, 2009 - 11:59 AM PST
The fact that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, now a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, isn’t a big fan of…
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Katie Fehrenbacher
Jun 29, 2009 - 12:00 PM PST
I got a flash back to the past today — and not in a good way. Way back when I was really…
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James Kendrick
Jun 9, 2009 - 4:58 PM PST
The Microsoft (s msft) My Phone service is an online cloud backup and syncing service for Windows Mobile phones. My Phone keeps…
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James Kendrick
May 19, 2009 - 8:03 AM PST
It’s been a mixed bag for coal this week, with some companies throwing in the towel on planned coal power plants and…
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Josie Garthwaite
May 9, 2009 - 5:00 AM PST
Ford’s $550M Electric Focus Factory: Ford (s F) plans to invest $550 million retooling a truck and SUV plant in Wayne, Mich.…
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Josie Garthwaite
May 6, 2009 - 12:23 PM PST
With Congress now waist deep in the climate and energy bill proposed by Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey last…
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Josie Garthwaite
Apr 24, 2009 - 5:03 PM PST
Compromise on Cap and Trade?: Top science adviser John Holdren hinted yesterday that the Obama administration might agree to auction only a…
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Josie Garthwaite
Apr 9, 2009 - 4:30 PM PST
Not What It Sounds Like: Porsche has gone solar. No, not by slapping solar panels on cars, but by installing its first…
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Josie Garthwaite
Mar 20, 2009 - 11:30 AM PST
At the opening dinner for the Forbes Energy conference on Tuesday night in New York, three former secretaries discussed their opinions about necessary energy and climate change policy, and at least two of them were in strong agreement that a cap and trade system in the U.S. would be bad for business.
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Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov 12, 2008 - 8:06 AM PST
Permits for America’s first carbon cap-and-trade scheme will go on the auction block on Thursday this week. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative…
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Craig Rubens
Sep 23, 2008 - 3:11 PM PST
Trading in preparation for America’s first mandated cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions started on Friday on the Climate Futures Exchange. Futures…
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Craig Rubens
Aug 18, 2008 - 4:39 PM PST
The Western Climate Initiative, a consortium of seven states and four Canadian provinces, yesterday issued a draft of their proposed plan to…
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Craig Rubens
Jul 24, 2008 - 1:43 PM PST
California introduced an ambitious energy road map today to achieve the state’s goal of cutting emissions by 28 percent. The policy mandates…
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Craig Rubens
Jun 26, 2008 - 3:02 PM PST
YouTube wrote in to let us know that our back-of-the-envelope math on its partner program had a fatal flaw, because the site…
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Liz Gannes
Apr 16, 2008 - 10:13 PM PST
My migration away from Microsoft Exchange to Google’s Gmail has started to push me more towards “cloud” computing and web apps. When…
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Kevin C. Tofel
Dec 14, 2007 - 2:09 PM PST
The GigaOM team would like to wish you and yours a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. If you’re looking for something to do…
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Craig Rubens
Nov 22, 2007 - 9:00 AM PST
The media educator John Culkin remarked: “We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.” The observation summarizes…
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Daniel Berninger
Jul 27, 2007 - 10:30 AM PST
How often have you been in this situation: you’re running late and frantically trying to get to a meeting or appointment. You…
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Kevin C. Tofel
Jul 9, 2007 - 1:41 PM PST
Over at the Origami Project, one of the forum readers replied to one of my posts with some interesting info for those…
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Kevin C. Tofel
Jun 30, 2006 - 6:37 AM PST
With MPAA cracking down on Usenet services, it is no surprise one of the bigger ones, GUBA is trying to go legit.…
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Om Malik
Mar 20, 2006 - 2:12 PM PST
Many thought it was not possible, but looks like HDTV over plain vanilla copper, and not fiber is finally beginning to happen.…
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Om Malik
Mar 23, 2005 - 7:53 PM PST
TeleGeography says that the international voice-over-IP traffic grew a mere 23 percent in 2003, much lower than typical growth rates of 80%.…
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Om Malik
Nov 15, 2004 - 10:12 AM PST