Pricing pollution a tricky business
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Carbon trading is taking off, but what concrete results do these abstract markets achieve?
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A government panel recommended that prices be set for greenhouse gas emissions.
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Oil at more than $90 a barrel is concentrating minds in the shipping industry. Higher fuel costs and mounting pressure to curb emissions are leading modern merchant fleets to rediscover the ancient power of the sail.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Costs have increased steadily in recent years, causing some to wonder about quality.
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Those fuel-economy estimates posted on new cars and trucks are baloney. The government agency in charge of them doesn&#39;t mean them to be; in fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency seems unusually scrupulous about its ...
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Number of bat deaths poses a problem for an industry that sells itself as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional power plants.
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A Cambridge power plant reduced its emissions last year when it switched from oil to natural gas. But environmentalists gathered yesterday to say that the plant simply traded one kind of pollution for another, now threatening the water instead of the air.
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Converting corn and soybeans into fuels is contributing to higher food prices. The dispute is how much.
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By Jonathan Fenby  China is finally coming clean about the cost to its economy of its huge pollution problem.
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The food company's profits are hit by cost pressures -- are higher prices the solution?
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KING COUNTY - A nasty surprise for fishermen and apple growers. The World Trade Organization says there will be tariffs on those products and heavy machinery from the United States.
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Some say the $16-a-day charge aimed at alleviating traffic will hurt businesses.
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The case for using a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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The decision to outsource and offshore is more complicated than just counting costs.
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Convenience comes at too big a price.
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Surging oil prices are a mixed blessing for the environment, experts say. Clean renewable energy and recycling are getting a major boost from 100-dollar-a-barrel crude -- but so are coal, a massive contributor to global warming, and nuclear power, which remains shadowed by safety concerns.