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7/22/2008 2:58:03 PM EST
David Ostrove
Posted by David Ostrove
LexisNexis Environmental Law & Climate Change Center Staff
Concerned about your own carbon footprint or that of your family?  Check out the EPA’s Personal Emissions Calculator below, which is intended to help “ individuals (and households) reduce greenhouse gas emi ...
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9/27/2007 4:31:25 PM EST
David Ostrove
Posted by David Ostrove
LexisNexis Environmental Law & Climate Change Center Staff
In 2007, California ’s Legislature passed two new laws on climate change. These bills, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are in addition to the landmark legislation signed into law last year—the California Global Warming So ...
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5/21/2008 10:47:17 PM EST
Ed Viguerie
Posted by Ed Viguerie
LexisNexis Quality & Training/LexisNexis Law Center Staff
Carbon offsets have been controversial since their inception. Paying someone else to reduce the amount of CO2 in the air in an effort to make up for one’s hedonistic lifestyle has always seemed like an easy sh ...
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5/16/2008 4:41:50 PM EST
Gregg Lawson
Posted by Gregg Lawson
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
“Oh, to again have a president with the ethical compass of Richard Nixon!”
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5/14/2008 4:33:50 PM EST
Gregg Lawson
Posted by Gregg Lawson
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
Was it a good day for the polar bears, or just a symbolic gesture?
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4/11/2008 5:25:58 PM EST
Gregg Lawson
Posted by Gregg Lawson
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
Joe (and Jane) Sixpacks of the world beware:  Climate change may be hazardous to your hunting, your fishing and your beer drinking.
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3/26/2008 2:19:04 PM EST
Morgan Wade
Posted by Morgan Wade
Legal Project Editor/LexisNexis Law Center Staff
On Thursday, February 21, National Public Radio's Morning Edition ran a story tracing the growing trend of corporate and governmental investors to look more closely at the "carbon risk" of potential investments [ ...
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2/25/2008 5:59:53 PM EST
Mark J Bennett
Posted by Mark J Bennett
Senior Counsel/Miller Canfield
The Green Building Finance and Investment Forum held on February 20-22 in San Francisco reinforced market trends which I have recently seen accelerating relative to the institutionalization of green building require ...
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2/14/2008 7:17:33 AM EST
Morgan Wade
Posted by Morgan Wade
Legal Project Editor/LexisNexis Law Center Staff
Two reports in the journal Science find biofuels cause more greenhouse gas emissions than traditional fuels when the effect of land changes are considered, as reported  Friday, February 8 ...
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2/12/2008 3:08:50 PM EST
LexisNexis Environmental Law Center Staff
According to a recent news release from NASA’s Earth Observatory site ( http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ ), a link between changes in the temperature of the surface of the sea and increases in hurric ...
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2/7/2008 2:49:55 PM EST
LexisNexis Environmental Law Center Staff
On February 7, 2008, EPA announced the launch of a new Greenhouse Gas Calculator that can estimate greenhouse gas emission reductions. The calculator converts greenhouse gas-related savings estimates, typically presented in "million metric to ...
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12/8/2007 7:33:16 PM EST
Michael B Gerrard
Posted by Michael B Gerrard
Attorney, Arnold & Porter
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11/2/2007 11:12:21 AM EST
Karen C Yotis
Posted by Karen C Yotis
LexisNexis Insurance Law Center Staff
The message at the climate change conference sponsored this morning by the Washington, D.C. law firm Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP was very clear--a progressive movement is afoot to effect monumental change in the way Americans think and in the way America ...
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