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Jennifer Turner, Director, China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is interviewed on energy demand and environmental conditions in China leading up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Turner discusses China's long-term energy and environmental concerns, as well.

This is a video timeline since the inception of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as told by those who ran the Agency from 1970-2008.

Sudhakar Kesavan, Chairman & CEO, ICF International, shares his insight on how "going green" makes good business sense.

This hearing examines how manipulation is affecting energy markets, including oil and natural gas. The hearing discusses, among other topics, the case of Amaranth, a $9 billion hedge fund that manipulated natural gas prices and ultimately came under investigation. Another topic is what the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) -- two agencies that share jurisdiction over these matters -- have done to address the problem of energy market regulation.

Nearly nine in ten European firms see a conflict between the regulations set out by national governments and the European Union, and 89% view green compliance as a "financial burden", according to the research conducted by research firm Coleman Parkes....

Marji Philips of the utility PSE&G outlines the increased costs utilities must take on to comply with environmental regulation.

Virginia Lyons, Vermont State Senator, talks about Vermont's efforts to deal with climate change.

The Dutch may actually make a longterm committment to fighting climate change. A novel concept.

A new survey of American attitudes toward combating global warming was released by New Scientist magazine, with support from Stanford University and RFF. The poll finds that most Americans want the government to establish regulatory mandates -- so long as they don"t hit consumer pocketbooks too hard.

As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently stated, nanotechnology has evolved from a futuristic idea to watch to a current issue to address. And for this new technology’s enormous potential to improve everyone’s life to be realized, nanotechnology must be subject to an adequate oversight system—a system designed to identify and minimize any adverse effects of nano materials and products on health or the
environment.