Did the Oil Price Boom of 2008 Cause Crisis? The WSJ points to a Brookings Institution paper (pdf) by James Hamilton of Econbrowser looking at the link between high oil prices last year and the credit crunch / financial... Read more Economy | | Saturday, 4 April 2009 |
Firms told to prepare now for carbon trading scheme Canberra TimesWednesday 1/4/2009 Page: 4Businesses have been told they are "dreaming" if they are hoping for a delay to Australia"s emissions trading scheme because of the economic crisis or political... Read more Economy | | Saturday, 4 April 2009 |
T. Boone Pickens Statement on Passage of U.S. Senate Version of Economic Stimulus PlanT. Boone Pickens Statement on Passage of U.S. Senate Version of Economic Stimulus PlanMany Key Elements of Pickens Plan Included in Legislation; Nation Now Needs to Shift Focus to Develop... Read more Economy | | TUSEDAY, 10 February 2009 |
Climate protestors threaten to shut down London’s carbon marketwww.environmental-finance.comLondon, 5 February:After attracting thousands of climate protestors to the Kingsnorth power station and Heathrow airport, the Camp for Climate Action has turned its sights on leading carbon trading platform,... Read more Policy | | Sunday, 8 February 2009 |
Congressmen table US renewables targetwww.environmental-finance.comNew York, 5 February:Clean energy advocates have renewed hopes that a US federal renewable electricity standard (RES Southern Cross) will be enacted with the introduction of a Congressional bill that... Read more Policy | | Sunday, 8 February 2009 |
The information society and its limitsThe breathtaking expansion of the Internet and the sources of information now available on it have served to conjure a cybernetic vision of unlimited growth--growth that can never be slowed... Read more Policy | | Sunday, 8 February 2009 |
Senator Mark R. Warner to Attend 2009 Energy Technology Summit at UVA-Wise Virginia"s junior United States Senator Mark R. Warner has [tentatively] accepted the invitation to address the 2009 Energy Technology Summit to be held at The University of Virginia"s College at... Read more Policy | | Sunday, 8 February 2009 |
White House Seeks New Energy PolicyPresident Barack Obama"s national energy policy is posted on the White House web page. Significant elements of the renewable energy policy, coal carbon sequestration research, and monies for a "Smart... Read more Policy | | Sunday, 8 February 2009 |
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