Man, I love getting updates from the Energy Information Administration. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Carbon dioxide, Coal, Natural gas

The now ubiquitous carbon footprint calculators (like this one from Seattle Climate Action NOW or this one from Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality), efforts like Washington Department of Ecology's Shrink Your Carbon Footprint Pledge and various community Climate Action Plans (including these from University of Idaho, Multnomah County, and the city of Seattle) have been helping residents become more aware about individual impacts on climate change. Continue reading →

Filed under: Climate change, Land, Sustainability, Carbon dioxide, carbon footprint calculator, Initiative for Rural Innovation and Stewardship, Multnomah County Sustainability Office, Northwest climate change

A coastal redwood grove. Scientists say forests in the Pacific Northwest soak up carbon dioxide. Continue reading →

Filed under: Climate change, Forestry, Carbon dioxide, U.S. Forest Service

Science Friday's Ira Flatow just had an interesting chat with Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's CO2 Program. Continue reading →

Filed under: Climate change, Carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The Environmental Protection Agency has changed its tune on regulating greenhouse gases from biomass. Today, the agency announced it is is leaving biomass-fired and other biogenic energy sources out of its greenhouse gas regulations for three years while the agency studies how to treat the related emissions. The new rule exempts facilities that burn wood, crops, manure, sewage, landfill gas and ethanol to make energy. Continue reading →

Filed under: Renewable energy, Agriculture, Forestry, Biomass, Carbon dioxide, Environmental Protection Agency, greenhouse gases

Today, the EPA finalized new rules on carbon capture and sequestration that aim to protect drinking water sources and account for the sequestered carbon. Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Carbon dioxide, Carbon sequestration, Environmental Protection Agency

Global carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 1.3 percent in 2009. David Biello at Scientific American writes that suggests the Great Recession "helped stave off climate change." Increases in CO2 emissions this year suggest the global economy is back on track, he writes. But that begs the question: Will economic health and environmental health always be at odds? Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Climate change, Carbon dioxide

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

Oh, dear. An insurance company has quantified the cost of getting lost. Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Energy, Transportation, Carbon dioxide

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Filed under: Air, Cap and trade, Carbon dioxide