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Carbon Management

  • Al Gore: World Can't Afford 'Subprime Carbon'

    The former U.S. vice president says the country should take a lesson from the subprime mortgage crisis and assess the real risk of the world's subprime carbon assets

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    Rachel Barron September 27, 2008
  • U.S. Congress Reconsiders Credits While Carbon Auction Launches

    The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on renewable-energy tax incentives yet again this week. Meanwhile, two regional greenhouse gas-reduction schemes are expected to move forward.

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    Jeff St. John September 22, 2008
  • Vattenfall to Trap Carbon Emissions

    The Swedish firm plans to open a 30-megawatt power plant next week to test its carbon capture and storage technology, a controversial approach to cutting emissions at coal-fired power plants.

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    Ucilia Wang September 4, 2008
  • Sindicatum Raises $280M for Carbon-Offset Projects

    The London firm had originally hoped to raise $600M, but had trouble enticing investors to invest in its new fund.

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    Ucilia Wang September 2, 2008
  • Canada to Beat U.S. to Carbon Storage

    A Canadian utility, Saskatchewan Power, is heading a C$1.4 billion project to retrofit part of a power plant and use carbon-capture technology.

    Enterprise

    Ucilia Wang August 22, 2008
  • NYMEX to Trade Carbon-Emission Allowances

    The New York Mercantile Exchange will begin offering futures contracts based on the first mandatory carbon-emissions trading program in the United States.

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    Ucilia Wang August 21, 2008
  • Carbon Offsets: To Define or Not to Define?

    Critics blast Wal-Mart for recommending that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission avoid defining carbon offsets and renewable-energy credits. Some businesses agree with the retail giant, while PG&E and others say a stronger definition is just what the industry needs.

    Enterprise

    Jennifer Kho August 7, 2008
  • Japan Promotes Carbon Trading, Hybrids

    The Asian government has approved a plan to reduce the country's greenhouse emissions by up to 80 percent by 2050.

    Enterprise

    Ucilia Wang July 29, 2008
  • Carbon Capture: Will White Powder Win Out?

    Carbon capture concepts are the vice presidential nominees of green tech – none are perfect.

    Enterprise

    Michael Kanellos July 17, 2008
  • Novomer Launches CO2-Based Plastic

    The Ithaca, N.Y.-based company is selling a binding plastic for high-tech manufactures that is 40 percent carbon dioxide.

    Enterprise

    Rachel Barron June 29, 2008
  • Carbon Tax Debuts in Canada

    Canada's fuel tax would be the first in North America aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the European Union wants to expand its carbon cap-and-trade program to include airlines.

    Enterprise

    Ucilia Wang June 27, 2008
  • DOE to Spend $126M to Put CO2 Underground

    After nixing its support of the $1.8 billion FutureGen project earlier this year, the U.S. government announces $126.6 million for two other carbon-storage projects.

    Enterprise

    Rachel Barron May 7, 2008
  • Al Gore Backs Carbon Tax

    The Nobel laureate and former vice president advocates a tax on carbon dioxide emissions as the U.S. Senate continues to debate a carbon cap-and-trade system.

    Enterprise

    Rachel Barron March 19, 2008
  • Will California Give Cities Carbon Budgets?

    At the UC Berkeley Energy Symposium, a state Air Resources Board member proposed a plan to make cities responsible for budgeting their portions of carbon emissions. The program could open the door for urban carbon-monitoring and tracking technologies, as well as energy-efficiency technologies.

    Enterprise

    Jennifer Kho March 10, 2008
  • Carbon Chameleon

    As Carbon Forum America kicks off in San Francisco, the Center for Resource Studies plans to guarantee consumers that carbon-offset purchases are legitimate. But is it the same old promise?

    Enterprise

    Marisa Taylor February 26, 2008
  • Keeping the Carbon In the Car

    The Georgia Institute of Technology wants to make a hydrogen-fueled vehicle that separates and stores carbon dioxide until it can be sequestered... but why go and make things so complicated?

    Enterprise

    Marisa Taylor February 13, 2008
  • Fat Spaniel Gets Fatter: Q&A With Chris Beekhuis

    Company president discusses the energy-management startup's plan to expand into Europe, to tap into the renewable-energy-credits and carbon-credits markets and to become 'sustainable.'

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    Jennifer Kho January 23, 2008
  • IN BRIEF: Novomer Gets Cash for Turning Pollution Into Plastic, Ecotality Buys eTec

    Startup says it can make bioplastics from carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Hydrogen and fuel-cell company buys its second battery-charging company, this one focused on electric vehicles and hybrids.

    Enterprise

    Jennifer Kho November 7, 2007
  • High-Tech for Old Growth

    Startup grabs $4.5M for technology to monitor forests. Among the purported benefits: more accurate carbon-offset measurement.

    Enterprise

    Alexandra Berzon October 30, 2007
  • New Policy Could Put CO2 Underground

    EPA to lay down regulations on how companies can sequester carbon-dioxide emissions deep under the earth's surface.

    Enterprise

    Rachel Barron October 15, 2007
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