Getting Back on Track: Climate Change and State Transportation Policy

Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/smartgrowth/statepolicy.asp This analysis evaluates each state based on 17 policy and spending criteria that have been compared by expert analysis to achieve transportation sector greenhouse gas reductions. States can also implement these criteria independent of local or federal action and each criterion has successfully been adopted in one or more states. … Continue reading »

New Deepwater Drilling Requirements: Approval Requirements for Activities That Involve the Use of a Subsea Blowout Preventer (BOP) or a Surface BOP On a Floating Facility

Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement http://www.boemre.gov/ooc/press/2010/press1213.htm The Obama administration on Monday gave new details (new-drilling-requirements) about the rules for deep- water drilling, responding to oil companies’ complaints that mandates imposed since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are so unclear they are delaying projects. Although the administration lifted … Continue reading »

A Method for Assessing Carbon Stocks, Carbon Sequestration, and Greenhouse-Gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of the United States Under Present Conditions and Future Scenarios

US Geological Survey / by By Zhiliang Zhu (editor), Brian Bergamaschi, Richard Bernknopf, David Clow, Dennis Dye, Stephen Faulkner, William Forney, Robert Gleason, Todd Hawbaker, Jinxun Liu, et al. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5233/ [From Interior Dept. press release] A new methodology to assess the potential to store carbon in U.S. wetlands, forests and rangelands ecosystems–and thus to reduce … Continue reading »