- No new gas stations in Los Angeles?
- Canada’s “Zero-Plastic Waste 2030” program will cost $13 billion (Canadian dollars), gain only $619 million benefit, says Fraser Institute’s Ken Green.
- Australian Scientists Discover Styrofoam-eating “superworm.”
- Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that would define “waters of the United States” for EPA regulatory purposes.
- Why does electricity usage go down? Income inequality, says Resources for the Future.
- Ford trying to get more congressional support for electric vehicles, says the Washington Post.
Tag: Climate Change
Stanford’s New Sustainability School Gets Heat for Welcoming Funds from Fossil Fuel Companies
John Doerr, a venture capitalist who made billions of dollars in the tech industry, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to set up a school for sustainability. It is the largest-ever gift to Stanford. Wrote David Gelles in the New York Times: “The school, to be known as the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability,…
New Zealand Proposes a Methane Tax on Farmers
Nearly half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from sheep and cattle. To reduce them, the government is negotiating a plan to tax farmers for methane emissions, beginning in 2025. The tax is part of an effort to reduce agricultural emissions by 24 to 27 percent by 2050. “The proposal includes incentives for farmers…
SEC Keeps Up the Pressure on Climate Change
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken several steps to show it’s serious about requiring companies to meet “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) standards . . . even though there are no such standards and developing them would be a massive and dubiously useful task. Using its power to require full disclosure of information needed…
Banker Wakes Up the ‘Woke’ on Climate Change. He May Lose His Job.
“Climate change is not a financial risk that we should worry about,” said Stuart Kirk, a responsible-investing executive of HBSC, one of the world’s largest banking and investment houses last week. He spoke at the “Moral Money” conference in London sponsored by the Financial Times. According to British sources, he was suspended from his job…
Are You Paying to Save a Forest that Won’t Be Cut Down Anyway?
This blog has long raised questions about carbon offsets. And now the New York Times is ruminating over them, too—in particular, over the amounts of money that airline passengers pay to “offset” their use of jet fuel. Some airlines (such as Air Canada and KLM) allow you to get rid of travel guilt by paying…