August 30 in a letter to the Speaker of the House, President Obama identified seven new government regulations that would cost the economy more than $1 billion each a year including four proposed Environmental Protection […]
With 90,029 confirmed registrations, Ontario has reached a new record for the number of incoming undergraduates according to the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre. Enrollment in Ontario has been increasing every year since 2004 and the […]
Most US states have some form of renewable energy objective. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to enact a national renewable energy or energy-related emissions objective. One of the problems arising from the lack of […]
The Government of Ontario has been very active in pushing a revolution in electric power in the province. In 2004 as part of Ontario’s Smart Metering Initiative, the Ontario Government legislated that all electric power […]
In January 2010, Canada formally notified the United Nations that in line with the Copenhagen Accord Canada committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels. At that time […]
A new survey of Californians’ attitudes on the environment has been released by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). Renewable energy California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy requires that one-third of the state’s electricity […]
Brazil has become the economic powerhouse of South America. Over the next few years Brazil will be getting even more international attention because Brazil will be hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the […]
The impact of shale gas on the US economy is hard to underestimate. The most important impact is that shale gas has pushed natural gas prices down and kept them there. Incredibly in 2009 there […]