Plans to prop up the price of carbon for businesses would push up the cost of energy and disadvantage British companies, say select comittee Government plans to prop up the price of emitting carbon dioxide for businesses have been dealt a blow by MPs, who have blasted the proposals as a handicap to British companies. The “carbon floor price” would ensure that companies were paying a minimum …
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'Carbon floor price' plans dealt a blow by MPs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s efforts to deal with its chronic water crisis are again in upheaval as lawmakers prepare to pull an $11 billion water bond off the November ballot even as Governor Jerry Brown revives the controversial idea of a canal to route Northern California water to the state’s arid south.
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California water projects circling the drain
CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) – A Brazilian prosecutor plans to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp and some of its local managers within weeks, adding the threat of prison sentences to an $11 billion civil lawsuit as punishment for a November offshore oil spill.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will be able to avoid power cuts this summer even if the nation’s last few nuclear reactors cease operating due to public safety fears after the Fukushima crisis, the government said on Friday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from the river, state media reported on Friday.
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China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Environmentalists sued the U.S. government on Thursday over naval training exercises off the West Coast involving sonar that they say harms endangered marine animals in the Pacific Ocean including killer whales.
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Environmentalists sue to protect whales from Navy sonar
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday said BP Plc must indemnify Transocean Ltd for some compensatory damage claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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BP must cover some Transocean oil spill damages
AURORA, Colorado (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pitched a plan on Thursday to boost U.S. use of natural gas and open more land for drilling during a campaign-style tour aimed at bolstering confidence in his economic stewardship in an election year.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States must urgently work to find a new central site to house its spent nuclear fuel and probe whether Japan’s nuclear disaster has any safety implications for storage at the country’s plants, a federal panel said on Thursday.
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CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) – A Brazilian prosecutor plans to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp and some of its local managers within weeks, adding the threat of prison sentences to an $11 billion civil lawsuit as punishment for a November offshore oil spill.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pitched a plan on Thursday to boost U.S. use of natural gas and open more land for offshore drilling during a campaign-style tour aimed at bolstering confidence in his economic stewardship.
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Obama pushes energy plan in campaign-style tour
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Not long before his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama ventured to a place he’d never been in three well-traveled years as president: the Environmental Protection Agency.
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LONDON (Reuters) – The World Bank’s carbon finance initiatives will likely be needed for at least five years, as the United Nations struggles to create a self-sufficient, international carbon market, the manager of the bank’s carbon finance unit told Reuters.
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(Reuters) – A federal appeals court threw out an injunction that Chevron Corp won to block enforcement of what it considers a fraudulent, multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador for polluting the Amazon jungle.
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U.S. court rules against Chevron in Ecuador case
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union carbon allowances are far too cheap to encourage increased environmental investment, a leaked EU draft seen by Reuters said, but it stopped short of calling for the market intervention politicians and energy companies argue is urgently needed.
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OHI, Japan (Reuters) – Japan’s nuclear disaster has eroded trust in utilities and shown residents of the rural, mountainous region of Fukui the risk of radiation, but a dependence on atomic plants for jobs and funds means speaking out against them is taboo.
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Japanese town’s dependence on nuclear plant hushes criticism
For a sixth consecutive year, Luminant has made a significant contribution to the University of Texas at Austin’s Luminant Carbon Management Program. This year’s $500,000 gift brin
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LONDON Households in UK face artificially inflated electricity bills under a government move to make businesses greener by setting a carbon emission floor price, an influential committee has warned.
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Proposed carbon emission levy will put UK at a disadvantage, expert panel warns
Airlines using U.K. airspace should be grounded if they refuse to comply with the European Union’s greenhouse-gas emissions-trading system, according to a panel of lawmakers.
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U.K. Lawmakers Threaten to Ground Non-Carbon Compliant Planes
LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate to a city where the jobs are, only to end up living in a slum regularly submerged by floods.
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How climate change, urbanization are changing disaster aid