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  • Oil weaning should be shared

    I was watching the show 60 Minutes where the US President-elect Obama was being interviewed for the first time after winning the election. According to Obama, despite that the price of oil has gone down energy and a green economy will remain at the forefront of his agenda along with trying to fix the...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008

  • Lost polar bears

    Sometimes the way to get to your pocket is to tug your heart strings and this advertising about polar bears almost worked on mine. According to WWF , several polar bears are way miles away from home and swimming more in open waters to find food and shelter. "While these bears are swimming around...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008

  • Next decade's weather forecast: BAD

    Summer this year in New York has seen several weeks of downpours and continuous heat and humidity, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said you ain't seen nothin' yet. The EPA released its climate change report last month and noted that continued global warming could likely increase...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008

  • Humans are to blame?

    For those who think global warming is just nature's way of being grumpy, US physicists are saying otherwise and reaffirmed that humans are to blame for the future mess the world is going to be in. "Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

  • Green lawyers to the rescue

    Preserving the environment is proving to be a profitable venture for lawyers. In the past few weeks, I've encountered several announcements from law firms stating that they are forming new businesses dedicated to untangling the intricacies of the carbon market. Cincinnati-based Thompson Hine formed...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

  • Dirty ships keep out!

    Ports from around the world are planning to join the greenhouse gas (GHG) cutters club by implementing their own regulations such as charging higher docking fees to polluting ships. Port representatives met last week at the C40 World Ports Climate Conference in Rotterdam and started planning on measures...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • News catch-up

    I'm back just in time to face the heat wave in New York. Tornadoes, flood, heat wave, earthquake -- some people are wondering if climate change is in play. Here are some noteworthy news that I came across while on semi-vacation: 1. The climate change bill in the senate got axed last week, according...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-10-2008

  • Climate change post footnote

    Also check out this week's issue of ICIS Chemical Business (Disclosure: I work for ICIS ) featuring global regulatory issues such as Europe's REACH, worldwide climate change, California's Green Chemistry Initiative, and other environmental/health concerns challenging the chemical industry...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008

  • GHG is up says weathermen

    If melting polar ice caps and increasing hurricanes and tornadoes do not convince skeptics of earth's rising temperature, maybe the high tech gadgets and scientific views of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NAOOA) could do the trick. According to NOAA scientists, the global levels...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008
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