John was the founding editor of Climatewire. He's now a reporter working on special projects, based in Denver, Colo. He's a former reporter with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered a wide variety of issues for the Washington bureau. He also served abroad as the lead reporter for the Journal in the first Gulf War and in the London bureau, during the waning days of the Cold War. He has written four books and is the co-founder of SOAR!, a group that has raised more than $10 million to help retired Catholic sisters and brothers.
China has launched its long-awaited national emissions trading system, a set of market-based greenhouse gas regulations to be imposed first on 2,392 coal- and natural gas-fired power plants that produce 40% of the nation's massive carbon dioxide emissions.
The system that supplies clean electricity to Vermont is not exactly a model of Yankee ingenuity.
GOLDEN, Colo. — The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is experimenting with two types of electric vehicles that promise to change American transportation habits and, eventually, help reduce one of the world's fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions: gasoline-powered cars.
IBM is developing a safer, more powerful electric battery that promises to reduce the charging time for electric vehicles and may enhance the possibility of electric aircraft, the company announced yesterday.
A new study says the wider use of heat pumps for heating and cooling homes and buildings could sharply reduce global fossil fuel emissions, but the solution has received relatively little policy support from governments, and its advantages are poorly understood by consumers.