State regulators just set energy efficiency standards for new TVs, but the Consumer Electronics Association isn't happy about. It should be. If past is prologue, this new regulation will drive innovation in the form of exciting new technologies that can be adapted for other products.    Read More

California is flirting with car insurance paid at the gas pump, so you’re actually paying based on how much of highway system you use—and how much carbon you pump into the air. Allstate, State Farm and Progressive are considering the idea.   Read More

As the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee began hearings on carbon regulation, debate ran along traditional battle lines, but with a new script.   Read More

New York's governor has proposed using $90 million of the state's $202 million in carbon allowance revenues this year to subsidize the budget deficit.   Read More

It’s not just the ads showing a baby-boomer couple sitting in matching bathtubs on a beach at sunset where you can find performance anxiety these days. Try looking in the hardware aisle and at the gas station.    Read More

New standards and models are being developed around the world for how to measure things that don’t have a smokestack, driving even more business to this new business of carbon counting.    Read More

It may have only been a dream, but President Obama and China's leader Hu Jintao were betting bold plans to measure and register greenhouse gas sources, trying to outbid each other. The reality is: If we play the game shrewdly this may be a game with many winners.   Read More

The Empire State Building is one of America’s oldest skyscrapers, but it is proving that you can teach an old dog new environmental tricks.   Read More

Unilever scientists are developing an ice cream that can be stored and transported at room temperature.   Read More

Even as China overtakes the US in the dubious category of “world’s leading greenhouse gas producer” it is also taking the lead in developing the technologies and policies to solve the problem well ahead of the US - - and sell those solutions to us at massive profits which could have been ours.    Read More