Is a carbon tax on consumption the happy medium we’ve been looking for?

Here’s a better way to regulate carbon — and change the tired environment-versus-economy debate.

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Is a carbon tax on consumption the happy medium we’ve been looking for?

5 Leading US Health Groups Oppose Efforts to Block EPA Regulating Greenhouse Gases

In case you hadn’t heard, the chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Fred Upton (R-MI) wants to scrap EPA plans to to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and other large industrial sources altogether . While on the face of it, Upton and fellow Congressmen Inhofe (R-OK) and Whitfield (R-KY) argue that it should be up to Congress to enact such measures and not the EPA.

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Aquaponic Growing of Desert Plants Too? (Video)

Image credit: Eco Films Australia From keeping stingless native bees to exploring the secrets of abundant, healthy soils , the folks at Eco Films Australia have some great permaculture-related content online. This latest one is no exception, offering a tour of an incredibly abundant looking aquaponics system (for the uninitiated,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New US Energy Chairman: "I Don’t Think We Have to Regulate Carbon"

Fred Upton (R-MI) is the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives.

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New US Energy Chairman: "I Don’t Think We Have to Regulate Carbon"