Good news and bad news from our English-speaking cousins:First the good news: Jim Prentice, Canada’s environment minister, announced last week that his Conservative government will institute a cap-and-trade system for coal-fired power plants, effectively forbidding new coal-plant construction without carbon sequestration and leading to the phase-out of existing plants.The bad news is that Australia has delayed its cap-and-trade system by a year, until 2011, repor [...] Share and Enjoy:

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Non-fossil liquid fuels got a boost yesterday when the California Air Resources Board called for a 10% cut in the carbon emissions of motor fuels by 2020.On the face of it, the rule is good news for the ethanol and biodiesel industries. To limit land-conversion and food-competition problems, CARB favors low-carbon fuels with high energy content per acre. The board has published complex rules that are seen to promote sugar cane over corn ethanol, for instance. In response to protests fr [...] Share and Enjoy:

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