Tag: Featured Business
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California’s Cap-and-Trade Program Upheld in Court
[caption id="attachment_312347" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The Sacramento Superior Court upheld California’s cap-and-trade program just five days before the fifth scheduled carbon auction. The California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation filed lawsuits claiming the one-year-old program, which auctions off the right to emit greenhouse gases, was unconstitutional. The court sided with the state, which…
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Light Rail Benefits Economy and Environment—Why Oppose It?
By Rob Perks [caption id="attachment_312310" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] I recently returned from a transportation conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on the economic benefits of building a light rail system to connect the Triangle region (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). The event—dubbed the “Transit Makes $ense” summit—was organized by the area’s leading “good growth” advocacy group WakeUP Wake…
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Walmart Under Fire for Failing to Meet Climate and Energy Promises
A Washington DC organization simply can’t forget what the country’s largest employer said in 2005. That’s when Walmart Stores Inc. pledged to be a leader in environmental sustainability amid the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Eight years later, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) issued a report stating that Walmart didn’t live up to that promise…
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Tesla Planning Electric Pickup to Rival F-150
[caption id="attachment_312177" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: @TeslaMotors on Twitter[/caption] Tesla’s latest idea might be bigger than any discussed in the company’s decade-long existence. CEO Elon Musk told Business Insider that his brand would release an electric pickup truck to rival the popular, far less efficient Ford F-150. Musk didn’t make a formal announcement about the truck.…
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We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us?
By Tara Lohan [caption id="attachment_312150" align="alignright" width="450"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The environment is one bad news story after another. The Pacific Ocean is warming at a rate faster than anything seen in the last 10,000 years and we may have the warmest Arctic in the last 120,000 years. We’re told to brace for more and worse…