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Making Emissions Personal

Posted April 08, 2009 8:16 AM

U.S. EPA may have set the process in motion for establishing a federal carbon market when it proposed a national greenhouse gas reporting framework. About 13,000 facilities emitting over 25,000 metric tpy must submit emissions data beginning in 2011. So large industrial emitters will be accounted for. What about you and me? Imposing a personal emissions reduction target of 10 tpy on people in both developing and industrial states who emit more by virtue of lifestyle and wealth is proposed to keep emission targets fair. Does this seem fair or a personal affront?

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04/09/2009 10:29 AM

Would they measure how much CO2 celebrities emit when they fly their personal jets to attend global warming conferences?

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04/09/2009 11:09 AM

Pull my finger . . .

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Re: Making Emissions Personal

04/10/2009 5:59 AM

Beans beans are good for your heart .............

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04/09/2009 4:17 PM

Fantastic

I see the streams of lawsuits now. The individual gets charged for their emissions then they sue the companies who don't provide an alternative to generating these emission and so on. Lawyers will have an entire new industry.

On the other hand this could bring about wide spread change. How ever moving too quickly may also lead us from one addiction to another.

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