Information about the source, price and environmental impact of power is unavailable for most of the power grid.
If governments want to see a blossoming of clean technology, therefore, they should use taxes to put a price on environmental externalities (such as carbon) rather than coddle pet technologies.
What carbon markets attempt to do is to price the environmental externality (emissions of greenhouse gases) so people making decisions have a truer picture of the full cost of their actions.
At the same time, they are aware of the downside of the Chinese model of economic development, which promises fast economic growth, but more often than not, at the price of environmental degradation and pollution, not to mention other social problems.
VAT, and the government makes no attempt to price in the environmental costs of flying.
Decades of environmental damage would be the price paid for "months" of oil, he said.
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How badly do environmental extremist policies effect the price of gas?
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That is a small price to pay for environmental protection and the health of a promising industry.
His planned environmental tax, the Carbon Floor Price, will raise the cost of energy from fossil fuels.
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At the same time, a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing the price of coal up.
He himself pins the blame for the recent price increases on costly environmental mandates for cleaner petrol ordered by the federal government (by implication: Mr Gore).
Beyond mere price, there are substantial environmental benefits in a switch from crude oil to natural gas.
There has been a lot of local debate about how much of the price increase will go to environmental protection and how much will go to filling government coffers.
And while this never happened, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) consumption quotas imposed by the federal and several state governments require more to be used every year, regardless of high price, negative food cost or environmental impacts and lousy efficiency.
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We will pay an enormous price in cleanup costs, economic losses and environmental and social damage.
Among other things, his administration foisted the Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and price controls on an economy already struggling.
The environmental and economic damage will come at an incalculably high price to a region-- and, for that matter, a country-- that can ill-afford either.
For now, only a handful of smaller players nationwide is choosing to embed sustainability into the very DNA of what they do, incorporating environmental intelligence into core business activities with no trade-off in price or quality.
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Mr Noda has pressed President Barack Obama for approval, but faces American opposition over the environmental risks and from those who say it will push up the domestic price of gas.
The decisions are predicated on federal and state environmental laws as well as prior court cases, not to mention the relative cheap price of natural gas.
As part of the price of its involvement, it has demanded a number of economic, environmental and social studies, and sent a team of international dam experts to Laos.
Adding to the malaise, the price of piston-engine fuel with low lead content shot skyward stoked by environmental concerns.
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The attraction of cap and trade systems is that they provide a more certain environmental outcome (a set level of allowable emissions), but at the cost of price volatility.
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By controlling for individual and environmental influences on weight, such as income and health, they then measure whether food-price changes affect body-mass index (BMI).
Insofar as renewables have desirable environmental attributes (and some notably corn-based ethanol may not), the preferable approach is to price these attributes and let the market choose the technologies that produce the best balance between environmental and non-environmental considerations.
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The economic and environmental case for high taxes on fuel is sound, but when tax accounts for 72% of the price of anything, it is not surprising that people grumble.
If the price of oil stays high enough, if the retorting process can be made cheap enough, and if environmental concerns can be satisfied, there's a lot of oil to be had here.
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