congress carbon legislation Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 04:34:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Food Companies Demand Climate Agreement from Congress https://www.greenoptimistic.com/food-companies-climate-agreement/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/food-companies-climate-agreement/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2015 04:34:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56883 Ten global food companies urged both the United States and world leaders to design an international agreement to address climate change in a joint letter. Released on October 1, the letter was coordinated by Ceres and signed by the CEOs of ten major companies including Nestlé and General Mills. Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, expressed […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/food-companies-climate-agreement/feed/ 0 56883 Congress Drops Carbon Legislation, CO2 Still Drops https://www.greenoptimistic.com/congress-drops-carbon-legislation-co2-still-drops-20121026/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/congress-drops-carbon-legislation-co2-still-drops-20121026/#respond Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:58:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27268 Even though the carbon taxes and cap-and-trade legislation pushed by the Obama administration in 2010 failed to pass in Congress, it seems that greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions, carbon-dioxide [CO2] mainly, still dropped on a nationwide scale. Market changes and individual state regulations seem to have made more of an impact than the failed legislation did. […]

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