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Global Warming and the Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Effect: as the twenty-first century begins, several well-established environmental trends are shaping the future of civilization. The problems facing us are significant: population growth, rising temperature, falling water tables, shrinking cropland per person, collapsing fisheries, shrinking forests, and the loss of plant and animal species. All of these factors are the result of increasing greenhouse gases and they will have an exasperating impact on our social, political, economic and environmental systems…

Cap & Trade Incentives: the two main incentive-based approaches to reducing CO2 emissions are to tax such emissions or to establish a cap-and-trade program for them. Under a tax, a levy would be imposed on CO2 emissions or on the carbon content of goods (which is ultimately released in the form of CO2). Under a cap-and-trade program, policymakers would set a limit (the cap) on total emissions during some period and would require regulated entities to hold rights, or allowances, to the emissions permitted under that cap…

Assessing the Impact of Climate change on Alaska: Alaska, like many other areas of the world, experienced a shift to warmer temperatures. Such changes are having an impact on the infrastructure presently in place, and may affect the chances of survival of Alaska’s forest and other ecosystems, the goods and services of which are crucial to the region…

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EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps

EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps ordered by data value. The rankings cover energy production, consumption, and price, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants, as follows:
Total Energy Production
Crude Oil Production
Natural Gas Marketed Production
Coal Production
Total Net Electricity Generation
Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Electric Power Producers
Total Energy [...]

Experts Look For Ways to Save Lake Chad

The Food and Agriculture Organization held a special event Friday to raise awareness and mobilize funds to save Lake Chad, which was once one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes…

U.S. EPA to spend more than $50 Million to address DDT, PCBs off Southern California Coast

Agency selects cleanup remedy for Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected a cleanup strategy for the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund Site, where a large area on the ocean floor off the Palos Verdes peninsula is contaminated with DDT and PCBs.
The site, off the coast of Los Angeles , stretches from [...]

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Utility Solar Assessment Study (pdf)

American utilities can reach 10% solar by 2025 (June 2008)

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