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Carbon Disclosure Project – Iowa and Minnesota Sign On

The Carbon Disclosure Project - founded in 2000- works to disclose information about major corporations’ global warming pollution. Its goal is to “facilitate dialogue, from which a rational response to climate change will emerge.”  ...read more »

ILSR - Per Capita Dividends in Carbon Cap

John Bailey of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance e-mailed the Commons with a policy brief on universal per capita dividends in carbon cap. Check out the PDF online.

Local opposition delays decision on mine, gasification plant

For immediate release: January 4, 2008 Please Contact: Cindy Klein 701-483-2851 Derrick Braaten 701-221-2911

Stark County zoning board votes to table land use change  ...read more »

Coal makes USA Today

Plans for at least 8 clean coal plants hit snagsBy Paul Davidson, USA TODAYClean coal-fired power plants have been touted as a remedy for an environmentally challenged age, offering the promise of turning cheap but dirty coal into a pollution-free energy source.

Don't turn off those wind turbines yet.  ...read more »

Nov. 5, 2007: Redsten: Plant Would Use Worst Technology Available

Mark Redsten, Executive Director of Clean wiscsonin, responds to Alliant Energy's assertion about its proposed coal plant in Cassville.

Wisconsin State Journal
Redsten: Plant Would Use Worst Technology Available
By Mark Redsten
Nov. 5, 2007
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/column/other/255...  ...read more »

Sept. 12, 2007: New Hybrid Metro Buses Set to Hit Campus Streets Soon

As part of the Mayor's plan to reduce CO2 emissions, the city of Madison will now offer public transportation on hybrid buses.

The Badger Herald
New Hybrid Metro Buses Set to Hit Campus Streets Soon
By Bridget Roby
Sept. 12, 2007
http://badgerherald.com/news/2007/09/12/new_hybrid_metro_bus.php  ...read more »

Aug. 29, 2007: Meeting Today on Power Plants

Environmental advocates gather to express concerns over the pollution of a power plant in southern Illinois.

Naperville Sun
Meeting Today on Power Plants
By Kate R. Houlihan
Aug. 29, 2007
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/532913%2Cna29_powe...  ...read more »

Gary Serio

Title:
Vice President
Company:
Entergy Corp.
Date:
11/13/2006
Article name:
Coal: Could Be The End Of The Line
Media outlet:
BusinessWeek

It's very likely the investment decisions many are making, to build long-lived high-carbon-dioxide-emitting power plants, are decisions we'll all live to regret.

Notes:
published before election
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