I have seen a flurry of recent predictions on oil and gas prices going forward, so I thought I would share some. Most of them support the thesis I recently put forward that we are setting the stage for another run on prices over the next 3-5 years. But with predictions all over the map, […]

Feds count 46 fatal accidents involving the Rhino
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iWashington Post: The United States and Canada plan to establish new air pollution control zones for ports along their coasts to force domestic and foreign ships alike to curb emissions linked to thousands of illnesses and premature deaths each year. The restrictions announced yesterday, which the Environmental Protection Agency outlined in a request Friday […]

Guardian: A last-ditch effort is being made to insert clearer green commitments into the global economic recovery package. The move comes amid fears amongst some British government officials that the G20 summit is in danger of missing a unique opportunity to prevent the world from being locked into irreversible and catastrophic climate change. Gordon […]

Independent (UK): Britain’s latest coal-fired power station should not be built, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, the economist who led the Government’s review into the financial cost of climate change. Lord Stern called on the Government to halt the planning process and said that the new coal-fired power station proposed for Kingsnorth in Kent […]

iGuardian: Thousands of merchant ships chug in and out of south Florida’s bustling ports each year, bringing boatloads worth of economic benefit to the region. They also deliver a more dangerous cargo: airborne pollution from giant diesel engines that can sicken coastal residents, or even shorten people’s lives. A study by the National […]

iGuardian: I was waiting with bated breath. Last week the Cato Institute — one of the scores of wildly rightwing lobby groups that masquerade as thinktanks in the US — circulated an ad that it intended to place in American newspapers. It was the same old rubbish, debunked a thousand times: We, the undersigned […]

iReuters: A draft statement which would confirm G20 leaders’ commitment to sign a new climate pact in December and support low-carbon growth drew mixed reactions from green groups and policymakers Tuesday. Environment analysts say more was unlikely from an April 2 summit of leaders of developed and emerging countries focused on preventing global recession […]

Reuters: The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee began debate on Tuesday on measures that would strengthen appliance efficiency standards and help U.S. manufacturers use less energy. The proposed legislation would revamp the Energy Department’s program that develops efficiency rules for household appliances by allowing individuals to petition the department to revise standards […]

iAgence France-Presse: Economic stimulus packages launched by crisis-hit countries are not investing enough in "green" sectors, the environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday. Executive director Gerd Liepold said stimulating consumption for its own sake was the wrong response to the economic crisis, and urged governments to pay more attention to the "climate crisis." […]

iReuters: Leading Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday offered a climate change and energy efficiency bill that would give industry up to two billion tonnes in "offsets" annually to help them meet requirements for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The legislation by top Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee also […]

iGreenpeace: Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao’s first meeting on 1 April, is a key opportunity for the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters to lead the way on tackling climate change. While Obama and Hu are meeting at a critical time in London, the first in a series of United Nations climate negotiations […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: The world is striving for a new U.N. climate "treaty" in December to succeed Kyoto. Or perhaps it will be a vaguer "agreement," "deal" or "decision." Delegates at 175-nation U.N. talks in Bonn on ways to step up the fight against global warming are locked in a semantic dispute — […]

New York Times: The debate on global warming and energy policy accelerated on Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and move the country quickly from dependence on coal and oil. But the bill leaves crucial questions unanswered and as of now has no Republican support. For […]

iBBC: There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government. Nina Fedoroff told the BBC One Planet programme that humans had exceeded the Earth’s "limits of sustainability". Dr Fedoroff has been the science and technology advisor to the US secretary […]