Kerry-Boxer Bill – Part Two of a Many-Part Series: The Personal...
The simple fact is that America’s love affair with the automobile has a whole lot to do with making us not only the largest producer of greenhouse gases but also the largest per capita producer of...
View ArticleCan Forest Biomass Solve Two Problems at Once? Or Will It Just Give Us Two...
We like to think about killing two birds with one stone. Seems efficient. Burning forest biomass to create electricity is one of the potential solutions to reducing CO2 emissions and fossil fuel...
View ArticleCAN WE HAVE A SERIOUS CONVERSATION ABOUT THE COST OF CAP-AND-TRADE?
Washington’s Department of Ecology recently issued a report entitled “Washington Western Climate Initiative Economic Impact Analysis,” which predicts that if the cap-and-trade program advocated by the...
View ArticleHearing on HB 1268 Presents a Microcosm of Why Adopting and Implementing an...
The Washington State Green Energy Leadership Plan Report, released October 21, 2010, identified four areas where it found Washington State might be able to achieve leadership in emerging segments of...
View ArticleOne More (Baby?) Step Towards Aviation Fuel From Forest Biomass
Air travel is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major consumer of fossil fuels. As a result Boeing and Airbus, as well as European airlines, have made major investments in developing...
View ArticleScore One for Producing Electricity from Biomass
We always seem to prefer our energy to come in a form where we can’t really know where it came from. Gasoline comes from a pump at the gas station, doesn’t it? And electricity comes in wires to our...
View ArticleOberlin, Ohio Joins the Ground Game of Carbon Neutrality
I was asked last week to refer someone to a consultant who could help them evaluate a business selling carbon credits and renewable energy credits. While I could suggest a consultant to do that, I had...
View ArticleHow Long Will The Legislature Be Stuck In Neutral On Green Energy?
As I do at the end of every session of the Washington State Legislature, last week I asked our librarian to pull all the natural resource and energy bills passed by the 2012 legislature in its regular...
View ArticleWhat Does Data Show About the Economics of Regional Cap-and-Trade?
Back before the recession, there was a major push in Washington State to adopt a state carbon cap-and-trade program as part of Washington’s membership in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). The...
View ArticleExecutive Orders & Carbon Emissions: Can Governor Inslee Establish A Low...
The authority of a governmental executive to issue an executive order has recently been a hot topic in the politico-legal world. President Obama’s issuance of Executive Order 13682 sparked a national...
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