The Nicholas Institute in the News 
- May 2, 2008 - Energy
concerns presidential candidates - News and Observer
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton
and Barack Obama support more aggressive efforts to curb global
warming and federal spending to create green jobs.
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- April 18, 2008 - The
Spore Against Terror - Grist
Marine biologist Raphael Sagarin has eclectic interests. During
the course of his career, he's scoured an Alaskan gambling record
for clues to climate change, retraced John Steinbeck's and Ed
Ricketts' survey of the Sea of Cortez, and even studied how
Easy Cheese escaped early chlorofluorocarbon regulations. In
2002, as a science fellow on Capitol Hill, he turned his biologist's
eye to post-9/11 Washington, D.C., with its proliferating Jersey
barriers and security checkpoints.
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- April 8, 2008 - Raleigh
mayor pledges water savings - Charlotte Observer
Even as they repealed the most severe water-use restrictions on
residents and businesses, Raleigh officials said Monday that that
water conservation will no longer be merely an occasional goal.
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- April 8, 2008 - MARKETS: Outside groups
float compromise to 'safety valve' - ClimateWire
The staffs of two nonprofit groups with important roles in shaping
the leading Senate global warming bill are suggesting a compromise
that would bridge one of the measure's biggest sticking points
-- the uncertainty over what the carbon emissions cap-and-trade
system will cost the nation's economy.
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- March 28, 2008 - Utah:
Epicenter for rising temps - Salt Lake Tribune
Death Valley-like
daytime highs and hot nights in Utah and the West last
summer reinforced the Southwest's status as ground zero
for deadly global climate disruption, a new report says.
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- March 26, 2008 - Moore:
Perdue dodging true debate - Star News Online
When they invited the leading Democratic candidates for governor
to a water policy forum, organizers at Duke University hoped
Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue and State Treasurer Richard Moore
would answer questions together on the same stage. Instead,
Moore and Perdue appeared separately Tuesday, sitting at different
times in the same red wing-back chair. The format provided more
verbal artillery for Moore, who again accused Perdue of purposefully
avoiding one-on-one debates in the final weeks of their high-stakes
campaign.
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- March 26, 2008 - Governor candidates
debate water use - Duke
Chronicle
Four of the 10 candidates for governor of North Carolina gathered
in the Griffith Film Theater Tuesday to discuss an issue that
many of the state's voters are talking about for the first time-water.
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- March 26, 2008 - Candidates
offer thoughts on water, drought - News and
Observer
Candidates for governor were asked questions Tuesday about water
and drought at a forum at Duke University. The questions touched
on the legal, economic, environmental and political aspects of
the state's water supply and the continuing drought. Two Democrats,
one Republican and a Libertarian took the stage one at a time
to face questions from a moderator.
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- March 11, 2008 - The
history of the ’safety valve’ debate - Climate Progress
Congress’ effort to pass passing global warming legislation faces
many sticking points, but few are as sticky — or as wonky — as
the battle over whether a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse
gas emissions should include what is called a “safety valve.”
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- March 3, 2008 - Coastal
towns are de-salting water - Charlotte Observer
With demand for water increasing as the drought and growth continue,
some coastal counties in Eastern North Carolina are tapping a
saltier source: rivers of brackish water that flow underground.
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- February 24, 2008 - Water
woes draw crowd - News and
Observer
It was the sort of gathering that would have been unthinkable
just 10 months ago in pre-drought Raleigh. More than 200 residents
from around the Triangle spent their Saturday morning listening
and talking about water -- how it's consumed, managed and paid
for.
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more >
- February 18, 2008 - City's era of cheap,
abundant water 'over' - Herald Sun
"We'll get through it, but the era of cheap and abundant
water is over." That was the assessment Sunday of expert
Bill Holman in the aftermath of last year's drought and its
effect on Durham's water supply.
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- February 9, 2008 - Interview:
Using nature to tackle terrorism - New
Scientist
Protection from terrorism is an unusual subject
for a marine biologist to get involved with, but Raphael
Sagarin has a special reason. He believes living things
can show us how to keep society safe. He explains to John
Whitfield why one look at natural systems will tell us that
the war on terror is doomed to fail
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- February 3, 2008 - Well
of ideas - News and Observer
A Raleigh City Council member's proposal for water impact
fees should be part of any conservation-and-growth discussion
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- November 28, 2007 - Preserving
land saves water - Charlotte Observer
We have all experienced drought pains this summer -- mandatory
water restrictions, alarmingly low lake levels, and parched landscapes.
It would be comforting to know that this summer's drought is an
anomaly and we will not experience the hardships of drought again
for years to come. Unfortunately, research is forecasting the
opposite.
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more >
- November 25, 2007 - Digging
in to cool the planet - Philadelphia Inquirer
Planting a tree used to be such a simple thing. For many, it was
a simple act of beautification. Or perhaps a way to shade a patio.
But lately, planting a tree has been elevated to a cause, a mission,
a step - however tiny, as skeptics note - to stall global warming.
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- November 18, 2007 - Drought
won't hamper N.C. ski resorts - Charlotte Observer
N.C. ski resort operators say the ongoing drought doesn't
change how they operate. None of them rely on the wet stuff
from the sky, otherwise known as natural snow, no matter the
year. Snowmaking requires water, but several resorts said they
maintain their own reservoirs fed by natural springs and melting
snow reclaimed off the mountains.
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more >
- November 14, 2007 - Water
bills likely to rise in Durham - News and Observer
Durham water bills almost certainly will be higher next year,
as city officials must pay for pumps and pipes to connect to new
water sources and offset the money lost when residents conserve.
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- November 7, 2007 - You
say reused water. Law says wastewater - Charlotte Observer
Pouring dish and bath water over the Charlotte region's
parched yards and wilting gardens is a popular way to fight
the drought. It's also illegal.State law prohibits rerouting
anything headed for the drain to the dry outdoors, even if
it's something as simple as leftover water from half-empty
glasses at the dinner table.
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- November 2, 2007 - Cross-border
water users getting cut off - Charlotte.com
Dale Johnson first noticed them in August -- big tanker trucks
stopping to fill up at a fire hydrant in his Providence Crossing
neighborhood on N.C. 16, just before the Union County line.
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- October 30, 2007 - Climate bill faces wave of opposition -
Politico
After years of debates and documentaries, Congress is poised to
address the issue of climate change. The Warner-Lieberman bill
is the vehicle and it’s headed for a bumpy ride, as industries
mobilize to set up roadblocks to stall or wreck the passage of
legislation that could cost them millions.
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- October 24, 2007 - As water dwindles,
families cut back -
News and Observer
Easley's plea has residents struggling to figure out how
to reduce consumption dramatically
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- October 24, 2007 - Severe water restrictions
likelyto start in 3 to 6 weeks - Charlotte Observer
Drought conditions around Charlotte will likely trigger the severest
water restrictions -- Stage 4 -- in three to six weeks, Duke Energy
predicted Tuesday.
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- October 23, 2007 - Governor: Cut water
use by half - Charlotte
Observer
Gov. Mike Easley asked North Carolinians on Monday to cut water
consumption in half between now and Halloween, offering tips that
included speedy showers and shallow dishpans.
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- October 23, 2007 -
Don’t
let it rain on new ways of looking at things - Fayetteville
Observer
I remember the moment I learned to stopped worrying and love
the drought.I was sitting on a bench in Linear Park downtown,
looking at a water fountain that had no water. Earlier, I had
passed a waterless water feature near the library.
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more >
- October 5, 2007 - Drought
cues up harsher restrictions - News and Observer
Drought's harshest hold now grips the Triangle and more than half
of North Carolina's counties, increasing the likelihood of tougher
conservation measures for homeowners and industry.
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more >
- October 2, 2007 - Water
demands may stress Cape Fear basin - Fayetteville
Observer
Projects are planned that would pull millions more gallons of
water from the Cape Fear River in the near future.
Some of it will fill water glasses in towns such as Cary, Dunn,
Fayetteville and Sanford.
Some of it will be used at the Smithfield Packing plant in Tar
Heel to clean up after the slaughter of thousands of hogs every
day.
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- September 29, 2007 - On
Warming, Bush Vows U.S. 'Will Do Its Part' - Washington
Post
President Bush assured the rest of the world yesterday that
he takes the threat of climate change seriously and vowed
that the United States "will do its part" to reduce
the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet, but he proposed
no concrete new initiatives to reach that goal.
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- September 25, 2007 - Green
MBAs Aim to Balance Profit, Planet - New
York Times
Business professor John Stayton remembers when eyes would
start rolling at the idea of a "green MBA." These
days, business schools across the country are incorporating
the environmental and social costs of doing business into
their curricula and a few, like the program Stayton directs
at Dominican University of California, aim for an all-green
program.
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- September 20, 2007 - Congressional
action on climate change - Daily Report
There has been an "explosion of activity" on energy
and climate change in the current Congress, according to Manik
Roy, director of congressional affairs for the Pew Center
on Global Climate Change. "Climate change is an important
issue in Congress."
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more >
- September 18, 2007 - As
demand continues to rise and drought drains the Cape Fear, our source
of drinking water is in danger - Star
News Online
The half-dozen broken trees and gnarled branches perched on top
of the spillway seemed destined for the foamy water at the dam's
base. But five minutes later, the debris was still rooted in place.
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more >
- September 6, 2007 - Duke
report offers water-saving ideas - News
and Observer
As North Carolina wilts for lack of rain, a group of Duke researchers
is offering suggestions for better long-term water use.
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more >
- September 6, 2007 - Regional
Approach Needed For Drought - NBC-17
Researchers at Duke University are calling for a unified approach
to protecting our water supply.
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- September 6, 2007 - In
deep water: North Carolina must do better job conserving
its resources - Charlotte Observer
When it comes to having enough water for our future, it's
a matter of simple arithmetic, says a report from Duke University's
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions: "By
2030, 12 million North Carolinians will demand use of
the same water resources that served four million North Carolinians
in 1960."
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- August 9, 2007 - The
truth about denial - Newsweek
Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment
Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. "Warming
of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report
by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and
businesses in 40 countries. Worse, there was now at least a 90
percent likelihood that the release of greenhouse gases from the
burning of fossil fuels is causing longer droughts, more flood-causing
downpours and worse heat waves, way up from earlier studies.
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- August 2, 2007 - Congress
Is Getting Ready to Debate Energy Bill - New
York Times
This was to have been the year that that Congress finally took
meaningful action to address the related problems of energy dependence
and global
warming. The new Democratic majority vowed to make these issues
a top priority, President Bush spoke of ending America’s addiction
to imported oil and industry groups promised to do their share
to build a cleaner and more efficient future.
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- July 25, 2007 - A
better idea than the 'safety valve' - Grist
So you want to have greenhouse gas standards with teeth, but
you want to minimize the risk they take too big a bite from
the economy. And, of course, like me, you don't
like the safety valve idea. What do you do? Banking and
borrowing, of course.
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- July 25, 2007 - Lawmakers
Turn To Spending, Farm Bills - Congress Daily
The House and Senate turn their attention to spending for domestic
security, law enforcement and public works this week, as the
FY08 appropriations process lurches into an uncertain future.
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- July 25, 2007 - Trade
you some CO2 for a little O2 - GreenTech Pastures
I wouldn’t hold my breath on anything getting done about the
atmosphere and climate change in the current configuration of
power in Washington D.C. But there are some rumblings that may
hint about the next phase of American politics.
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- July 25, 2007 - Cost
containment for the carbon market: A step toward cap-and-trade -
Grist
As Joe mentioned
yesterday, four moderate-to-conservative senators -- John
Warner (R-Va.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.),
and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) -- just proposed a measure to achieve "Cost-Containment
for the Carbon Market."
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more >
- July 25, 2007 - Duke
researcher helps Congress shape global warming policy - Medill
Reports
It seems everyone on Capitol Hill has a solution for dealing
with global warming these days.
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more >
- July 24, 2007 - Moderates' Bill
To Fight Global Warming Gets Company - Congress Daily
Four senators today offered a global warming bill that is
intended to be less burdensome on business than a competing
plan by fellow moderates.
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- July 24, 2007 - Climate concerns
heat up Congress - Herald
Sun
More than 125 bills, resolutions and amendments related to global
warming and greenhouse gas emissions have been introduced in
Congress so far this year, compared to just 106 in the previous
two-year session of Congress, reports the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change.
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- July 24, 2007 - US
Senators Lieberman, Warner CO2 bill allows emergency 'offramps' - Market
Watch
The new cap-and-trade climate-change bill currently
being drafted by U.S. Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Joseph Lieberman,
I-Conn., includes emergency 'offramps' to protect the economy
if costs for cutting carbon dioxide rise too high.
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- July 24, 2007 - 4
senators gang up on emissions - Houston
Chronicle
A bipartisan group of four senators who have never voted for
climate-change legislation is proposing a plan to limit the
costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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- July 15, 2007 - Warming
may redefine what flourishes - News
and Observer
Global warming is a big thing. The pine beetle is an exceedingly
small thing. But when the two are combined, it means one thing
for North Carolina's pine forests -- trouble.
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more >
- July 15, 2007 - Q&A:
Duke expert talks tax incentives, 'Inconvenient Truth' - News
and Observer
As part of the series on the current and potential effects
of global warming on our state, The News & Observer
asked Dr. Brian C. Murray, an economist at Duke University,
to answer your questions about the economic consequences
of a changing climate and the various costs and benefits
of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through public policies.
Murray, director for economic analysis at Duke's Nicholas
Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, has expertise
in forestry, agriculture and energy.
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- July 15, 2007 - Climate
Change Debate Hinges On Economics - Washinton
Post
Here's the good news about climate change: Energy and climate
experts say the world already possesses the technological know-how
for trimming greenhouse gas emissions enough to slow the perilous
rise in the Earth's temperatures.
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- June 19, 2007 - Will
standards tighten carbon trading rules? - Farm Press
Whatever program or term is favored — carbon sequestration,
offset credits, cap-and-trade — there remains a glaring problem
with the practice of polluting companies buying greenhouse
gas reduction credits from farmers and landowners.
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- June 18, 2007 - U.S.
environmental NGO helps Chinese farmers reduce greenhouse
gas emissions -- China View
The first manual for farmers and foresters on how to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions will be available to Chinese users soon, a U.S.
environmental protection NGO announced here on Monday.
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more >
- May 25, 2007 - Ecotality:
Carbon Sequestration Could be $8B Business for Agriculture - Green
Options
It’s not going to be the most scintillating beachside reading
this summer, but a new guide coming out in June from Duke
University Press could help prevent rising seas from obliterating
your favorite beach.
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more >
- May 23, 2007 - New
guide aimed at helping ID greenhouse opportunities - Farm
Week
As the White House outlined its greenhouse gas reduction goals,
the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at
Duke University last week unveiled a new guide aimed at helping
farmers participate profitably.
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- May 23, 2007 - Bush
greenhouse gas order raises hopes, concerns - Farm
Week
President
Bush issued an executive order last week aimed at reducing domestic
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to purported global climate
change.
That could both offer opportunities and pose new regulatory
risks for producers.
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- May 3, 2007 - Nature's
carbon 'sink' smaller than expected - Christian
Science Monitor
While the continents and oceans have absorbed much of the carbon
dioxide that humanity has pumped into the atmosphere so far,
they won't be able to keep up with the expected rise in greenhouse-gas
emissions over the next several decades. Indeed, some recent
studies suggest that current scientific estimates about natural
absorption are too optimistic: Earth's climate by century's
end could be on average up to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F.)
hotter than current "business
as usual" projections suggest.
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- April 8, 2007 - Business
future through green-colored glasses - Orlando
Sentinel
It's no longer news that "green" products and practices
are good for the bottom line. But the days when "green" is
only a garnish on the business plate might be ending.
With the integration of greenhouse-gas emissions controls into
our national economy seemingly inevitable, we may soon take
our longest stride toward an inherently green and sustainable
economy in American history. As a result, "green" increasingly
is business, not just good for it.
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- April 8, 2007 - The
Court's Green Light for Green Tech - The
Washington Post
In San Francisco last month, I found myself discussing the concept
of carbon sequestration with my friend Kevin while he was giving
his daughter Emma a bath. The fact that we were chatting about
injecting carbon dioxide into untapped oil fields as we squirted
water at a 2-year-old highlights just how trendy the U.S. green-tech
market has become. Kevin is what you call a "serial entrepreneur," who
spots business trends and invests in start-ups before selling
them and moving on to the next promising venture.
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- April 3, 2007 - Ruling
Undermines Lawsuits Opposing Emissions Controls - New
York Times
Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on carbon dioxide emissions
largely shredded the underpinning of other lawsuits trying to
block regulation of the emissions and gave new momentum to Congressional
efforts to control heat-trapping gases linked to climate
change.
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- March 31, 2007 - How
much is carbon worth? -
United Press International
If continuing discussion
in Congress on climate change is solidified in legislation
capping emissions, electricity rates would most likely spike.
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- March 7, 2007 - Wise
water courses - News & Observer
More people moving to North Carolina means more water usage
in homes, businesses and industrial plants. North Carolina is,
after all, sixth in growth rate in the United States, and water
demand is expected to increase 35 percent by 2030, to 2.2 billion
gallons a day. Those are clear, and worrisome, facts that local
and state policymakers must face regarding the adequacy of water
supplies.
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- March 2, 2007 - Planning
urged ahead of warming | Ex-interior secretary: N.C. vulnerable - News & Observer
Planning could help North Carolina prepare
for rising sea levels that are predicted as part of
global climate change, Bruce Babbitt, a former secretary
of the interior, said Thursday.
Babbitt, who held the position in the Clinton administration,
made his comments to a group meeting in Raleigh on the state's
future water supply.
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- March 2, 2007 - Big business
sweats climate change laws - Chicago
Tribune
Recent state actions to curb global
warming are having a surprising effect: They are prompting big
power companies and manufacturers to call on the Bush administration
to mount a fight against climate change.
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- February 1, 2007 - Boxer
faces tight margins in committee to move GHG legislation - E&E
Daily
Among the most daunting hurdles facing
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) as she tries to craft legislation
capping greenhouse gas emissions is the narrow level of support
on her Environment and Public Works Committee.
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- January 7, 2007 - Striking
a green balance in N.C. - Charoltte Observer
Bill Holman has been at the center
of N.C. environmentalism for more than a quarter-century.
Holman worked for 18 years as an environmental lobbyist,
later served as state environment secretary. He became
executive director of the Clean Water Management Trust
Fund, which makes grants to protect the state's waters,
in 2001. Last week, he joined Duke University as a
visiting scholar at its Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions.
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- November 16, 2006 - McCain:
Bush Admin Officials In Denial On Climate Change - Comtex
News Network
U.S. Sen. John McCain Thursday
criticized Bush administration officials as being "in a
state of denial" when
it comes to global warming and announced plans to immediately
reintroduce climate change legislation early next year.
"We will reintroduce legislation again on the first day
of the session," said the Arizona Republican, who is exploring
a 2008 presidential bid after losing to President George W.
Bush in his 2000 race for the nomination.
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- November 16, 2006 - Holman
moving on
- Fayetteville Observer
Not many folks were surprised Monday when Bill Holman announced
he was leaving the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund
to take a new environmental policy post at Duke University.
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- November 14, 2006 - Holman
is leaving N.C. water trust fund
- Charlotte Observer
Bill Holman, executive director of the state Clean Water
Management Trust Fund, said Monday he's resigning to join
a Duke University environmental institute.
Holman's surprise
announcement came at the end of a Clean Water board meeting
in Raleigh. The fund makes about $100 million a year in grants
to help state agencies, local governments and nonprofit groups
address water pollution.
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- November 13, 2006 - Director
of N.C. clean water fund resigns to take post at Duke - Washington
Post
The executive director of the state agency
that allocates money to protect North Carolina waterways announced
his resignation Monday.
Bill Holman, a longtime environmental
advocate, said he will step down from the North Carolina Clean
Water Management Trust Fund effective Dec. 27. Holman, who announced
his resignation during an agency meeting, said he will become
a visiting scholar at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for
Environmental Policy Solutions.
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- October 30, 2006 - Warming
Called Threat To Global Economy
Failing to curb the impact of climate change
could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression
or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that
could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic
product, according to a report issued yesterday by the British
government.
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- October 3, 2006 - Report
challenges ecological hypothesis - United
Press International
A U.S. report finds little to support a widely held ecological
assumption that species are most abundant near the centers of
their geographic ranges.
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- September 21, 2006 - Branson
to Invest Billions To Combat Global Warming - Washington
Post Foreign Service
Iconoclastic British billionaire Richard Branson pledged Thursday
to invest all profit from his Virgin Group airline and train
businesses over the next decade -- an estimated $3 billion --
to fight global warming and promote alternative energy.
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- September 13, 2006 - Chafee
fends off challenge to take GOP nomination - E&E
Daily
Sen. Lincoln Chafee
won the Rhode Island Republican primary yesterday, overcoming
a bid to unseat him from the more conservative wing of his party.
Chafee, one of the most moderate Senate GOP voices on energy
and environmental legislation, defeated Cranston Mayor Stephen
Laffey by 8 percent.
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- August 26, 2006 - Climate
bill puts governor on hot seat - Mercury News
An ambitious proposal that would make California a leader in
the fight against global warming has emerged as one of the most
hotly contested measures in the Legislature this year, and a
key environmental test for Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
in his bid for a second term.
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- August 22, 2006 - The
Exact Price of Power- Newsday
As temperatures approached 100 degrees during this month's heat
wave, many Long Island residents pushed up their air-conditioner
settings to stay comfortable - in some cases, to make their
homes livable.
But those adjustments also helped push electricity consumption
to record levels despite appeals from the Long Island Power
Authority for people to cut back or risk outages. The increased
consumption, in turn, leads LIPA to continue to develop more
sources of power to meet the demand, at a greater expense to
ratepayers.
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- August 11, 2006 - Cities,
States Aren't Waiting For U.S. Action on Climate - Washington
Post
With Washington lawmakers deadlocked on how best to curb global
warming, state and local officials across the country are adopting
ambitious policies and forming international alliances aimed
at reducing greenhouse gases.
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- July 19, 2006 - Northeast
Plan To Extend Climate Cap Raises Constitutional Questions - Inside
Washington Publishers
Northeast states are considering expanding a regional cap
on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to cover companies that
import electricity from states not subject to the mandate,
in order to curb emissions "leakage" that could
result if the climate change program displaces power generation
into other areas of the country.
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- June 19, 2006 - ‘25
By 25’ Energy Proposal May Face Election Year Delays -Tim
Profeta Interviewed on American
Public Radio - Marketplace
The U.S., of course, wants to wean itself off Middle Eastern
oil. The latest proposal in Washington is called 25 by 25. It
calls for the U.S. to get a quarter of its energy from renewable
sources by 2025. But getting this through Congress is another
matter.
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- June 7, 2006 - Long
wait appears likely for flurry of energy proposals - E&E
Daily
A bipartisan group of lawmakers
today will unveil a sense of Congress resolution that
says the Unites States should attain 25 percent of
its energy from renewable resources by 2025, kicking
off a flurry of activity in the coming weeks on energy
proposals that are not likely to see the light of
day until the next Congress is sworn in.
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- April 20, 2006 - Benefits
of forested carbon sinks outweigh risks -- Greenwire
Recent reports that planting forests as carbon sinks might
increase methane in the atmosphere and impair groundwater
flow should not dissuade policymakers from exploring this
method of carbon sequestration, according to a new analysis
by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions.
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- April 18, 2006 - California
tackles greenhouse emissions -- The
Christian Science Monitor
As it has done with tailpipe emission standards, coastal
protection, and endangered species, California is trying
to become a leader on one of today's most pressing environmental
concerns: global warming.
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- March 3, 2006 - Who's
an environmentalist anyway? - Tim Profeta interviewed
on Living on Earth
Who's an environmentalist anyway? These days it's sort of a
forest/tree question. The closer you look, the harder it is
to tell the difference between granola-eating tree huggers from
the corporate suits selling the virtues of going green. Then
there's the religious right warning about global warming, and
typically conservative hunters taking up the cause of preserving
habitats. To help sort out the distinctions and political implications
of the changing environmental landscape we turn to Timothy Profeta,
director of Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions. Thanks for joining me.
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- Fall 2005 - Summit
Webcasts - University Channel
Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions held a summit featuring keynotes
by Pulitzer-winner Jared Diamond, Duke Energy VP Richard Osborne,
and Russell Train, chairman emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund.
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more >
- Fall 2005 - Environmental
Summit Launches Nicholas Institute at Duke - Duke
Environmental Law Newsletter
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