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Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

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Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia’s carbon pricing plan—a core element in a new clean energy plan—in a short address to the nation. The Government intends to introduce legislation to underpin the carbon pricing mechanism into Parliament in the second half of 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. But what about plug-in hybrids?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. But what about plug-in hybrids?

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. RGGI: A Case Study.

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PPIC Survey Finds Californianss Support for Policies to Curb Warming Slips With Economy and Budget Crisis; Partisan Split Widens

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But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.

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Going with the talent flow

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It saves the farmers from buying diesel fuel and breathing diesel fumes. First or second car… New or used… Time to buy electric. He decided to take personal action by joining Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. “In Oregon, legislation dies if it doesn’t make it through in a particular session,” Barnhart explained.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Twelve chips, each with more than 3000 transistors and 36 leads, were to handle different elements of the calculator logic and controls, and he surmised the packaging alone would cost more than the targeted retail price of the calculator. And finally, they estimated that sales might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.”

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