Carbon Emissions

A bill that would price carbon emissions got its first hearing in the state legislature Wednesday. NHPR's Annie Ropeik reports it aims to discourage the…

Nine Northeast states and the District of Columbia will plan a new program to price and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.The…

A new report suggests New Hampshire's Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant will be essential to curbing the effects of climate change in the coming years.Seabrook…

New Hampshire is the only New England state that didn't join a coalition opposing the proposed rollback of the Clean Power Plan.The EPA wants to replace…

A new report says the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has put $4 billion into Northeast economies since 2009.The three-year study by the Analysis Group…

The nine states of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, including New Hampshire, have set a new, more ambitious goal for reducing carbon emissions by…

New Hampshire has joined 48 other states and cities to sign a non-binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The pledge is called…

A lot of reporters were distracted by the big number in yesterday's announcement of proposed reductions in carbon dioxide emissions: 30 percent by 2030.…

When President Obama announced that he wanted the EPA to fast-track regulations on carbon emissions at existing power plants, the outcry was…