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If “cap and trade” has worked so well in Europe for reducing greenhouse gas emissions there, why haven’t we tried something similar here in the U.S.?

EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: If “cap and trade” has worked so well in Europe for reducing greenhouse gas emissions there, why haven’t we tried something similar here in the U.S.?       — Sandra M., Bern, NC “Cap-and-trade,” whereby big polluters must pay to emit greenhouse gases against a capped […]

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Moving away from business as usual

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), appointed by the United Nations, released their fifth climate assessment since its creation in 1988. Key findings include the planet is warming at an accelerated pace, there is a 95 percent certainty humans are causing it, and the past three decades are the hottest on record since 1850 […]