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Posted on May 7, 2008 by Dennis Pfaff
- Who finds it easy -- or good business -- being green? The San Francisco Chronicle, citing a report from a New Hampshire nonprofit group, gives an accounting of climate-friendly companies.
- It's mercury, not climate issues, driving the opposition, but the Sierra Club is threatening to sue to block a number of coal-fired power plants, according to Reuters.
- The pending lapse of renewable energy tax credits causes the Christian Science Monitor to look at the implications, focusing on Arizona.
- Nuclear power is on the minds of all three major presidential candidates, reports Reuters in a story carried on Planet Ark.
- Democrats in the U.S. Senate unveil a new energy bill that taxes "Big Oil," according to a report on Reuters (see Democratic analysis of bill here).
- The worldwide carbon market, now valued at $64 billion, "could become a victim of its own success and paralyze further progress," writes the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital, citing a new World Bank report (see World Bank press release here; text of report here).
- Iowa Gov. Chet Culver signs a bill promoting renewable energy in that state, reports The Messenger of Fort Dodge, Iowa (see Culver press release here).
