European airlines fear trade war with US over carbon emissions levy | Business | The Guardian

European airlines have warned of a damaging trade war with the US, Russia and China if Brussels pushes ahead with plans to include carriers in the emissions trading scheme next year in a move that will put fares up by €40 and cost the industry €1.1bn (£980m).
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"It makes Europe completely uncompetitive," said an Iata spokesman, who said airlines already faced an expected rise in fuel bills of $27bn this year. "Whether the airlines can recover it from passengers depends on market conditions."

Health camp on Environment Day - The Times of India

"We can reduce carbon footprint drastically if people switch over from exercising in gymnasium to yoga," one of the doctors told the participants.

When anti-technology kills

I’m talking—again, as I have for over 20 years—about electronic pasteurization. About streams of high-energy electronic particles basically sterilizing our ground meat and fresh produce, much as we defanged tuberculosis by pasteurizing our milk. No radioactivity. The necessary doses are so small that the food will even taste fresher—because the spoilage bacteria have been killed.

'Only tiny' carbon tax effect on mining jobs

THE impact of the carbon tax on the mining industry will be "trivial" [Question:  If that's true, how, exactly, will this tax save the planet?] - so small that for practical purposes it will be "invisible," according to one of Australia's leading labour market economists.