Time Magazine’s latest issue covers the top 10 green stories of 2008, headlined by the Obama election.
Here are the rest.
2. Congress Passes Renewable Energy Credits
Federal tax credits for the solar and wind industries are set to expire at the end of ’08. Gasp!
“Drill, baby, drill.” Are coastal waters safe now that the democrats are in office and gas prices have plummeted?
4. Failure of Warner-Lieberman
The first national carbon cap-and-trade legislation gets whacked in Congress.
5. New Rules Put a Freeze on Coal Plants
Coal industry to clean up or shut up.
Doesn’t look like America will be replacing oil fields with ethanol-producing corn fields anytime soon.
The first animal listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. “Swim, baby, swim.”
8. Indonesia Warms to Avoid Deforestation
Cool idea: California open to helping Indonesia save its rainforests.
Utilities coughed up $38.5 million for the right to emit 12.5 million tons of Co2.
10. Word of the Year: “Hypermiling”
Do you know what the Oxford American Dictionary word-of-the-year means?
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