Browsing Tag 'Greenhouse gases'
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by ESA’s Science Policy Analyst, Piper Corp.
Read more...A group called Economics for Equity and the Environment released a report today detailing their predicted costs for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to this article in the Washington Post, the cost could be as low as between one and three percent of the country’s GDP each year to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide [...]
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The debate about climate change has focused on one polarizing gas: carbon dioxide. CO2 and its portrayal to the general public is controversial because on one hand, it’s essential for all life, since plants need to breathe too. But on the other hand it’s a greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere, and in [...]
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Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of NOAA (who, by the by, is a former president of ESA), gave a great interview on this week’s Living on Earth series. If you don’t listen to Living on Earth, it’s an excellent weekly radio show by Public Radio International that focuses on environmental issues. Lubchenco told the Living on [...]
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The EPA released a report yesterday that proposes to change the rules of the biofuels game. The report, titled “Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Changes to Renewable Fuel Standard Program,” examines the lifecycle of corn-for-ethanol practices and sets the “payback” period of carbon emissions for corn-for-ethanol fuel as 33 years. The payback period means [...]
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