A carbon tax would not cause too much grief at the gas pump
A new report from the University of Michigan Energy Survey offers insight into how American consumers would react to a carbon tax.
A new report from the University of Michigan Energy Survey offers insight into how American consumers would react to a carbon tax.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 18, 2017
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Economists say countries should ramp up the price of carbon emissions to as much as $100 per metric ton by 2030 to stop catastrophic global warming.
Environment
May 29, 2017
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Australia's gas industry is under scrutiny from the competition watchdog after apparently failing to deliver on its pledge to bring down domestic prices and ease the east coast gas supply crisis.
Environment
Apr 24, 2017
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Oil prices can have a major impact on the types and quantities of energy sources used—and thus on greenhouse gas emissions. A new study from researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the ...
Environment
Jun 13, 2016
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If the price of oil decreases, carbon dioxide emissions increase. This is what two Spanish scientists claim after comparing the relationship between air pollution and economic development by using the real oil prices in Spain ...
Environment
Mar 11, 2016
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Unstable crude oil prices and limited oil resources have made the production of petrochemicals from methanol increasingly popular—above all in China. Scientists at ETH Zurich have now deciphered the complex chemistry behind ...
Materials Science
Sep 22, 2015
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The emissions trading program in the northeastern U.S. to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector is responsible for about half the region's emissions reductions – an amount far greater than reductions ...
Environment
Aug 24, 2015
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Academics and economists called Friday for a price on carbon and an end to fossil fuel subsidies to help curb rampant greenhouse gas emissions harming Earth's climate system.
Environment
Jul 10, 2015
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Researchers from MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing are collaborating to bring new insights into how China—now the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2)—can reverse the rising trajectory of its CO2 emissions ...
Environment
Jun 19, 2015
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Six leading oil and gas companies Monday called on governments to put into place a carbon pricing system, saying this would be the most effective way of cutting the emission of greenhouse gases.
Environment
Jun 1, 2015
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