As California’s cap and trade law kicks in this month, the question seems to be hovering over the Northwest: Are Oregon and Washington going to follow suit? Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Cap and trade, Carbon tax

With help from author Mike Berners-Lee, The Guardian's Green Living blog is on its way to calculating the carbon-footprint of everything. Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Climate change, Cap and trade, Carbon dioxide

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Filed under: Land, Cap and trade, Logging

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Filed under: Fish & Wildlife, Land, Agriculture, Forestry, Cap and trade

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Filed under: Air, Cap and trade, Carbon dioxide

Eric de Place at Sightline Institute's Daily Score Blog dropped this bombshell after new estimates pegged the BP oil spill at 5 million barrels: The U.S. has a BP-sized leak of greenhouse gas every three hours. Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Energy, British Petroleum, Cap and trade, Gulf oil spill, Pollution

Calculate Your Carbon FootprintOregon's Department of Environmental Quality has a carbon calculator you might want to test out. Go on. It will be good for you. There's no rule saying you have to do anything to reduce your footprint (not yet) once you know your score. And the questions force you to think about things that are actually just good ... Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Cap and trade, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

How clean and green is wood biomass? Here's a new critique from Eugene Weekly that delves into Oregon's unfurling debate over whether it's actually carbon neutral to take wood from the forest and burn it to generate electricity. Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Energy, Land, Sustainability, Biomass, Cap and trade