Pricing pollution a tricky business
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Carbon trading is taking off, but what concrete results do these abstract markets achieve?
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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A proposed "congestion pricing" toll system to reduce traffic and pollution will be too expensive, its array of cameras for enforcement will threaten civil liberties, and downtown businesses will shrivel.
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Investing the wrong way can cost you dearly.
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The discount behemoth's out to level prices -- and the competition.
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Sales may be light, but ThermoGenesis's wallet is heavy.
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Those fuel-economy estimates posted on new cars and trucks are baloney. The government agency in charge of them doesn&#39;t mean them to be; in fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency seems unusually scrupulous about its ...
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By Teddy Ng  Hong Kong entrepreneurs who own factories in the Pearl River Delta Region are grappling with a new challenge: Care about pollution or perish.
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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.
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The need to reduce carbon emissions has even environmentalists rethinking nuclear energy, but high costs could prove a deal-breaker.
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Some in the utility industry are arguing that it will take decades of investments and innovation to get substantial reductions in their emissions of greenhouse gases.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 10--Adding a fee to utility bills   The state's consumer advocate has concluded that higher electricity rates could be in your best interest.   And yes, there is a method to the madness.
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As concern about global warming ripples across Sweden, the average citizenâs relationship with comfortable â and highly polluting â cars is becoming strained.
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The case for using a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Convenience usually comes at a price â and that price has been climbing.
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A Cambridge power plant reduced its emissions last year when it switched from oil to natural gas. But environmentalists gathered yesterday to say that the plant simply traded one kind of pollution for another, now threatening the water instead of the air.
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Surging oil prices are a mixed blessing for the environment, experts say. Clean renewable energy and recycling are getting a major boost from 100-dollar-a-barrel crude -- but so are coal, a massive contributor to global warming, and nuclear power, which remains shadowed by safety concerns.