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Should a ‘green’ state ship coal to China?
A new Columbia River port terminal to ship coal overseas has environmentalists, energy sector lobbyists and government officials questioning its global-political implications.
NM regulators to rule on ‘cap and trade’
The other big vote in New Mexico may be overshadowed by Election Day but it has huge economic implications by reducing greenhouse gas in the Land of Enchantment.
Keystone pipeline dirty, no economic boon
A rural policy group is giving the mitten to a proposed pipeline to pump Canadian tar sands oil to U.S. refineries. Opponents say the project would double greenhouse gas emissions and hurt local renewable energy efforts.
Trading carbon for jobs
A Santa Fe public hearing today aims to reconcile competing interests to cap greenhouse gas and boost a recession-battered economy.
Change in GDP for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Source: Congressional Budget Office, The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions [PDF] Data: Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, CRA International, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Brookings Institution, and the Congressional Budget Office.
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