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A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Trigger?

In his essay, Mr. Bressler incorporated recent public health research into the latest version of the DICE model, estimating the number of additional deaths due to rising temperatures. The resulting expanded model yielded an amazingly high…

Exxon Mobil Proposes Carbon Seize Plan

HOUSTON - Amid mounting pressure from investors to address climate change, Exxon Mobil proposed a $ 100 billion project on Monday to track carbon emissions from large industrial plants in the Houston area and deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico…

American Petroleum Institute endorses carbon pricing

The oil and gas industry's largest trading group on Thursday approved a price on CO2 emissions to warm the planet, a big shift after long resisting regulatory action on climate change.The American Petroleum Institute's move comes as…

Invoice Gates on his carbon footprint

Bill Gates is a climate change philanthropist and evangelist.But he knows full well that his life as a billionaire and business tycoon also makes him an "imperfect ambassador for climate change", he writes in his new book "How to Avoid a…

Pay farmers to chop carbon footprint

Fourth generation rancher Loren Poncia made Stemple Creek Ranch carbon positive. He has implemented rotary cattle grazing systems that allow the soil and grass to recover, put compost on pastures, and planted chicory that aerates the…