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On Clean Energy, China Skirts Rules - NYTimes.com

But much of China’s clean energy success lies in aggressive government policies that help this crucial export industry in ways most other governments do not. These measures risk breaking international rules to which China and almost all other nations subscribe, according to some trade experts interviewed by The New York Times.

Fed reimbursing Metro for snow removal | Washington Examiner

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending Metro $1.76 million to help cover the cost of snow removal during last winter’s vicious snow storms.

This is the second million-dollar reimbursement FEMA has agreed to pay Metro after record December and February snowstorms cost the transit agency an estimated $12.7 million for snow removal. Metro officials say the agency also lost millions in passenger revenues when storms kept above-ground stations closed, buses off the roads and many commuters home.

Conservatives hammer candidates over cap and trade' - KansasCity.com

Conservative Republicans around the country are using cap and trade - a way to limit global warming pollution - as a political weapon to attack GOP moderates as well as Democrats.

In the Market for Pollution: Carbon Trade or Carbon Con?: Scientific American

"There is an interesting story to be told looking back through the 20th century at the drivers of wealth creation," wrote Richard Sandor, founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary trading regime for carbon dioxide, in the October issue of Environmental Finance, the trade magazine of emissions markets. "In the 1990s, it was the commoditization of information. Looking forward, I think the 21st century will be driven by the commoditization of the two most important resources on the planet: Air and water." Nevertheless, Sandor cashed out of at least the air commodity business this spring, selling CCX to IntercontinentalExchange for $600 million.