Energy and Environment News Roundup – 11.26.13
A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world.
EMISSIONS
EPA says US spewing 50% more methane into air than estimated (via AP)
Feds reveal data behind “social cost of carbon” (via The Hill)
On campuses, a fossil-fuel divestment movement (via Washington Post)
Activists to push DC fossil fuel investment ban (via Seattle Post-Intelligencer/AP)
MIT study finds air pollution causes 200,000 premature deaths per year in US (via Facts of the Day)
CARBON MARKETS
China expands carbon emissions trading scheme (via Phys.org)
California carbon auction raises $297 million (via Environmental Leader)
California carbon market caps off successful first year (via Environmental Leader)
RENEWABLES
Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua top Latin America clean energy investment index (via RTCC)
Small wind turbine market to top $3 billion by 2020 (via BusinessGreen)
The US has 43 nuclear power plants’ worth of solar in the pipeline (via Quartz)
Wind picks up as coal declines in the Midwest (via Greentech Media)
Ecotech finds more than 1 million clean energy job postings (via Energy Manager Today)
Capital markets, regulatory certainty needed to scale up US advanced biofuel production (via Breaking Energy)
Ohio energy policy revamp bill getting a rewrite to include compromises (via Cleveland Plain-Dealer)
CLIMATE
Climate change refugee bid denied by New Zealand court (via The Guardian)
White House climate “resilience” group gets going (via The Hill)
GREEN BUILDING
Five ways buildings have reached a “GREEN” tipping point (via RMI Outlet)
Greenbuild 2013: Three signs green building is on the rise (via GreenBiz)
Top 10 innovations from Greenbuild 2013 (via Inhabitat)
OPINION
Warsaw outcome a hint of what’s to come (via C2ES)
China can turn its challenges into clear opportunities for greener growth (via South China Morning Post)
Future of energy storage is behind the meter (via Greentech Media)
Five myths about the carbon asset bubble (via Energy Collective)