Jun 06 Climate Change Bill Blocked, Left to New Congress By Admin, PBS News Hour Republican senators blocked a proposed global warming bill Friday that would have led to major reductions in greenhouse gases, calling it a huge tax increase. Continue reading
Jun 02 Watch Lawmakers Struggle to Agree on Plan for Emissions Cuts, Energy Policy A new climate bill on Capitol Hill aims to reduce carbon emissions by creating a hotly-debated carbon cap-and-trade system. Senators on both sides of the debate weigh the pros and cons of instituting such a system and how it could… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch Extended Interview: Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla is an influential venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He was a cofounder of Sun Microsystems and later a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, which helped fund Google and Amazon. In 2004 he started his own… Continue watching
Nov 30 Bali Talks to Set Stage for Further Climate Negotiations By Admin, PBS News Hour Nearly 20,000 policymakers, activists and journalists will gather on the island of Bali, Indonesia Monday to open talks aimed at crafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations treaty on climate change. Continue reading
May 01 Watch Energy Experts Debate Future Use of Coal In the fifth part of a series about how to deal with climate change, a coal industry advocate and the author of a book critical of the coal industry debate whether new coal technologies hold promise or peril. Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch Climate Change Experts Look to European Model for Curbing Emissions An international panel of scientists issued a report last week on the potential impacts of global warming. In the first part of a series on climate change, an advocate for an emissions cap-and-trade system used in Europe explains how it… Continue watching
Feb 16 Next Generation of Emissions-Cutting Bills Emerges By Admin, PBS News Hour Over the last few months, new legislation has been introduced in Congress that aims to reduce the effects of global warming by midcentury. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Emissions Exchange Program Aims to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Among businesses addressing the global warming issue, the Chicago Climate Exchange is creating a trading market with financial incentives to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases. Continue watching