Home furnishings giant Ikea last month set a new bar for renewable energy installations among big box retailers by announcing it would produce almost 5 megawatts of electricity atop two sprawling distribution centers in Maryland and New Jersey. The planned installations are among a flurry of recent announcements involving rollouts of large solar arrays by the company, and other retailers are following Ikea's lead.
Former Secretary of State George Shultz is preparing to promote a carbon tax, putting him in the company of a small cluster of Republican statesmen who are embracing efforts to reduce greenhouse gases that their party has rejected. Shultz, who spent nearly seven years in President Reagan's Cabinet, says a carbon tax that returns its revenue to taxpayers and public programs could eventually be accepted by the Republican Party, despite its current hostile outlook on measures that reduce emissions.
Bobby St. John is leading a tour of catacombs carved into a salt formation by the Department of Energy when his helmet lamp shines on the last thing you'd expect in one of the Earth's driest places: water. (Greenwire, )
The House on Friday voted 315-108 in favor of a $638.4 billion 2014 defense policy bill that would repeal a 2007 ban on the government purchase of carbon-intensive fuels and restrict the military's biofuels program. (E&ENews PM, )
Climate scientist James Hansen -- now retired and free from the constraints of his role at NASA -- on Thursday promoted a carbon tax as the most effective way to curb GHGs. (Greenwire, )
Will he change your mind about nuclear power? (ClimateWire, )
2012, which included severe drought and Superstorm Sandy, was the second-costliest year in natural disaster damages since 1980, government officials said Thursday. (Greenwire, )
President Obama has told donors in recent weeks that he intends to release climate change proposals next month. (Greenwire, )
