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10 ways to game the carbon market
This guide outlines ten different ways in which schemers can game carbon trading systems and shows how markets contaminated with carbon offsets are especially prone to corruption and fraud.
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Buying Bills: How the biofuels industry influences Congress to waste your taxpayer dollars
A report examining how the bioufels industry finances Congressional champions in thier re-election bids and how much money the industry spends on lobbying.
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Nanotechnology, Climate and Energy: Over-Heated Promises and Hot Air?
This groundbreaking report rigorously examines claims that nanotechnology will allow for continued economic growth and resource use while minimizing environmental impacts, showing that to date nanotec…
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Nano & Biocidal Silver
Extreme germ killers present a growing threat to public health.
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Getting a Grip on Cruise Ship Pollution
Authored by cruise industry expert, Ross Klein, this report looks at all aspects of the cruise industry — from its pollution streams to its history of environmental violations to the modest number of…
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Manufactured Nanomaterials and Sunscreens: Top Reasons for Precaution
Nanomaterials are already being used (unlabelled) in hundreds of consumer products including sunscreens and cosmetics. This report explains why this is reason for concern.
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A Dangerous Distraction
Why offsets are a mistake the U.S. cannot afford to make
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A Boon to Bad Biofuels
This evaluation by Doug Koplow of EarthTrack for Friends of the Earth estimates the costs of the Renewable Fuel Standard and the various biofuel tax credits.
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Subprime Carbon?: Rethinking the World’s Largest New Derivatives Market
This report is one of the first critical analyses to characterize carbon trading as a massive new derivatives market and . It finds that existing financial regulations, as well as those proposed in ma…