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A Post Woodstock Perspective on Cap and Trade

By Roger Feldman, Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP, October, 05, 2009 - It is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the Moon Mission, the Miracle Mets, and the Joe Namath Jets. Everything was possible in 1969. It was the year before the business cycle bubble burst for a decade, and energy prices became a national rather than a consumer issue, as a result of the first oil embargo. NEPA and the environmental movement were emerging green glimmers. The "energy crisis" as well as the "global warming crisis" were not on many radars. The impact on America of sustaining the drain of war on an overheated economy was not fully appreciated. Concern with "fuels mix" might have involved a new herb, potion, or cocktail. It was a simpler time. more...
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Carbon Credit: A Passport to Pollute Our Planet

By Ramanathan Menon, Editor and Publisher, Sun Power, September, 09, 2009 - Most of us favor protecting the environment. We want green grass to grow, clean water to drink, and blue skies to gaze. We want our factories to find ways to get rid of their waste instead of dumping it in the air we breathe or poisoning our drinking water resources. more...
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Offsetting the Invisible Hand

By Roger Feldman, Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP, August, 28, 2009 - Introduction: more...
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Carbon Accounting: Currency of the Future?

By Lee Barken, Energy and Cleantech Practice Leader, Haskell & White, LLP, July, 13, 2009 - If you're not familiar with the term carbon accounting, you're about to start seeing it. A lot. more...
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Emissions Trading: A Brief Negative Resume

By Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor, , February, 02, 2009 - INTRODUCTION more...
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States & Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumers

By Alan Caruba, CEO, The Caruba Organization, November, 07, 2008 - Energy consumers in ten northeastern States are going to see their bills rise and probably not even know why. They will assume that it is tied to the cost of oil, natural gas, or coal, but it does so only obliquely. more...
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The Emerging Carbon Market

By Kim Padilla, President, Valencia, July, 09, 2008 - Greenhouse gas emissions are a global challenge, with the United States emitting 30% of the total greenhouse gases in the world. The approach by the US to address the issue has been fragmented at best. Yet, the carbon market continues to emerge.

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Of Turnips and Tulips and Carbon

By Roger Feldman, Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP, February, 12, 2008 - Everyone has heard of tulip-mania, when flower price speculation ran rampant -- until the financial bubble burst: an historic dot.com experience that, of course, we are immune to. . . The unspoken fear today (sometimes dismissed as carping criticism) is that our scientifically plotted market-based approach to reduction of greenhouse gases could fall prey to this too-human tendency to push markets toward pure speculation -- whenever they are not tethered to the ground by ineluctable or exceptionally rigorous market design -- in short, unless they are more like markets for turnips than tulips. more...
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The Business Electric: Recapping Cap and Trade Systems for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Arthur O'Donnell, The Energy Overseer, , December, 20, 2004 - The National Commission on Energy Policy is certainly not the first group to recommend that the United States implement a "cap and trade" system for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that have been implicated in an apparent, if not completely proven, change in the global climate [see The Business Electric, "You're Probably on the Right Track," 12/13/04]. more...
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Carbon Sequestration - Bridging the Gap between Kyoto and a Viable Global Carbon Management Programme?

By Ian French, Analyst, frost & sullivan, March, 05, 2004 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report of 1992 included confirmation that perceived changes were occurring to the global climate due to human energy generation and consumption. In the next century, a continued increase in carbon emissions and rising concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere is certain unless major changes are made in the way we produce and use energy and deal with the carbon by-product. But how can we change a system that has taken a hundred years or so to put in place? The global energy system is immense and riding on it is the world's economy and the very fabric of society. The complexity of its nature, including most modern social institutions, suggests that it will resist any rapid change and must therefore be managed adequately until realistic alterations can be fully implemented through evolution of practice not paradigm change - a recipe for economic chaos. more...
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