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High court hears climate case
AT DEADLINE
9 coal projects net
$1 billion from IRS
By Elizabeth McGowan
The Internal Revenue Service
has allocated nearly $1 billion in
tax credits to nine planned
clean-coal projects.
The Energy Policy Act of
2005 authorized $1.65 billion in
credits for clean-coal projects.
The act allocated $800 million
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WASHINGTON — Fittingly, the two
attorneys arguing the first case
about global warming before the
U.S. Supreme Court did so on a
balmy Nov. 29 when the temperature in the nation’s capital rose
10 degrees above normal.
At issue in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency are
three relatively simple concepts.
One, is the federal agency authorized to regulate heat-trapping gases under the 1970 Clean Air Act?
Two, did the EPA exercise its dis-
cretion appropriately when it refused to regulate emissions from
new cars? And three, do the 12
states and 13 environmental organizations involved have a legal
leg to stand on by claiming these
pollutants are harming their property and citizens?
A decision — expected by June
— could bust open a longtime political stalemate and have sweeping implications for vehicle manufacturers, as well as power plants,
factories and other greenhouse gas
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California, RecycleBank, Dell earn Waste News awards
A trio of winners
Green
schools’
IN THIS ISSUE
SOLID WASTE
AIG Highstar Capital II, a unit of
the insurance giant American International Group Inc., acquires Interstate Waste Services Inc. Page 7
Study: Eco-friendly
facilities would
save big money
HAZARDOUS WASTE
EnergySolutions LLC buys the
naming rights to the home of the
NBA’s Utah Jazz. Page 5
AIR POLLUTION
Sen. John Warner
says he wants to
become the ranking GOP member
of the Senate
Environment
Committee. Page 3
Environmental Award, Corporate category
(tie): RecycleBank launches a successful formula for increasing residential recycling rates and
participation that combines technology and
goodies from retailers. Page 11
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Andrew Mangan of
the U.S. Business
Council for Sustainable Development
says byproduct use
partnerships are
springing up everywhere. Page 4
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Environmental Award, Corporate category (tie): Dell Inc. —
whose CEO, Kevin Rollins, is
pictured at left — goes global
with a no-strings-attached recycling initiative that can serve as
standard-bearer for all types of
take-back programs. Page 13
America could save billions of dollars over the
years by building green
schools — enough money to
hire an additional teacher
at each building, according
to a new study.
A study of 30 ecologically
friendly school facilities
shows that greener schools
save money and make for
better students when compared with traditional construction.
The report, written by
Greg Kats of Capital E, a
national green building
firm, concludes that energy
savings alone would total
$14 billion over 10 years if
every school building in the
country was green.
Breaking the numbers
down a different way shows
the average school could
save almost $800,000 in energy costs over a 20-year period by building green,
enough money to hire an additional teacher, Kats said.
Kats, managing principal
of Capital E, estimated the
average added cost to build
green schools compared to
traditional schools is only 2
percent higher, or a little
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promise
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Environmental Award,
Government category:
The state of California
beats the federal government and other states to
the punch, becoming the
first to cap greenhouse By Jim Johnson
gas emissions from industrial sources. Page 12
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Eco-Troubadour Stan
Slaughter brings the world
of waste and recycling to
thousands of schoolkids
across the Midwest.
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PET fiber made from
recycled bottles forms
the basis of the Mohawk
Group’s display at last
month’s Greenbuild
conference. Page 17
