by Admin | Apr 9, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Green Energy
Set to be the second major economy in Latin America to resort to environmental taxation to discourage the use of carbon-intensive fuels, Chile’s government wants to impose a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from thermal power plants. The proposal for a carbon tax...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2014 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards
The WWF said in a statement early last week that leading non-governmental organizations issued a joint declaration on Monday protesting against the ongoing construction of the Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River mainstream. In the declaration, the organizations also...
by Admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Articles, Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Air pollution has become the world’s single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million – or nearly one in eight deaths in 2012 – according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The figures released by WHO are more than double previous...
by Admin | Apr 2, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
Duke Energy, the company responsible for nine environmental violations, is seeking to withhold records from the court. The latest violation came Friday for a crack in a dam at a coal ash dump in Moncure, where regulators say Duke illegally pumped 61 million gallons of...
