Apologies, but I can`t resist: I saw a news item earlier today - "Copenhagen climate summit borrows Dylan's voice" - that indicates that the COP 15 organizers (the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which Pres. George H.W. Bush & Congress...
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has done it again*, by proposing in a speech on October 1 in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. shelve cap-and-trade legislative approaches to managing greenhouse gas emissions in favor of direct carbon taxes that are rebated to consumers . Tillerson`s full speech is here ; the press...
Margo Thorning, Chief Economist and SVP at the influential American Council for Capital Formation (and director of research for its tax and environmental policy think tank (ACCF Center for Policy Research) and managing director of its new international affiliate, the International Council for Capital...
A little birdy told me this story yesterday, which I think I was the first to ”Tweet". ExxonMobil has announced a $600+ million venture with Craig Venter' s advance genomics firm to develop fuels from algae. An Exxon scientist noted: "the potential advantages and benefits of biofuel...
[Somehow most of my excerpts of Tillerson`s speech weren`t included in my first try; there`re here this time.] It may still seem novel to some, but Exxon Mobil Corporation began throwing its weight behind carbon pricing policies more than two years ago , Subsequently, Rex Tillerson, Exxon`s Chairman...