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A new climate change bill was released yesterday, the latest version of Senate climate legislation sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry is a companion bill that goes beyond the Waxman-Markey bill.In the Boxer-Kerry bill, short-term emiss…

With climate change legislation in limbo in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is acting under The Clean Air Act to curb greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Yesterday the New York Times reported that the EPA has announced a proposed rule t…

The outcome of health care reform will impact upon the President’s entire legislative agenda. As Frank O’Donnell, president of the activist group Clean Air Watch said, the healthcare debate “has basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room.” The pro…

Nobel prize winning quantum physicist Steven Chu Ph.D is the most qualified Energy Secretary ever to lead the Department of Energy. He is a far cry from the kind of people that some Republican Presidents have appointed to the job. Conservative icon Ron…

Small businesses need help if they are to support proposed cap-and-trade legislation. Although the climate change bill passed in the US House of Representatives on Friday, it was by the thinest of margins (219 versus 212). Predictably Republicans where…

Small business has more to fear from unchecked CO2 emissions than it does from cap-and-trade. If proposed climate change legislation can gain the support of lawmakers, cap-and-trade will help businesses make the transition to a low carbon economy.The A…

The small business community has been silent on American cap-and-trade debate even though the passage of proposed climate change legislation is crucial to global efforts to reduce CO2. The legislation has supporters, but there are those in Congress who…

The debate on climate change is amongst the most important discussions humanity has ever engaged but despite the heroic economic contributions of the small business community, they have yet to weigh-in on this historic debate.In the US cap-and-trade is…