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The article reports on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's success in securing the support of most provinces for a national carbon-pricing scheme. Topics discussed include Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto accord in 2011, the need for each province to impose a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme by 2018, and the country's national emissions target by 2030.

The article looks at the environmental policy of California which started with its emission-reduction efforts and the establishment of its greenhouse-gas regulatory program, as of June 2019. Topics discussed include the state's dedication to environmentalism including its high standards for energy efficiency, views of Governor Gavin Newsom on the state's climate change policy, and the benefits from its California Environmental Quality Act including progress in public-works projects.

The article looks at energy and environmental policy in the U.S., focusing on the responses of different states to U.S. President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan requiring reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. It discusses the choice of several states including Oklahoma to oppose the policy by suing the federal government and cites factors including petroleum industry locations and electoral politics affecting each state's policies.

The article focuses on the success of water conservation efforts in Las Vegas, Nevada. It states that between 2002 and 2014, Clark County, Nevada's consumption of water from the Colorado River declined by 30 percent even as a half million additional residents moved to the region. It mentions that new homes in Clark County are banned from including front lawns, resulting in rock gardens and the planting of cacti and yucca plants. It compares how Nevada regulates water use with California.

The article discusses the introduction of policy reforms by Secretary Ryan Zinke of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Zinke is criticized for jeopardizing the department's land-management exercises. He wants to promote drilling on grouse habitat. His deputy, David Bernhardt, has been targeting certain areas of conservation and environmental policy.

The article discusses the nominee for to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt's climate change skepticism and his previous efforts to legally challenge the U.S. government's Clean Power Plan (CPP). An overview of the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plan to reverse many of U.S. President Barack Obama's policies to prevent climate change is provided.

The article focuses on carbon-reduction methods in China, the European Union (EU), and the United States and the need for a carbon tax. It states China has instituted a pilot carbon-trading program in Shenzhen while U.S. President Barack Obama announced on June 25, 2013 new controls on U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions. It comments that the EU confirmed limits on automobile emissions by 2020. It suggests the measures are insufficient and talks about the need for a stiff carbon tax.

The article discusses the Mexican government's traffic control policies to reduce air pollution in Mexico City, Mexico, including its limiting the amount of automobile traffic, expanding the city's bus rapid transit (BRT) network and its issuing of what are referred to as ozone alerts.

The article focuses on pollution-abatement efforts by the city government in Paris, France by holding its first car-free day on September 27, 2015. It states eco-citizens petitioned Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo after being inspired by inspired by a similar event in Brussels, Belgium. It mentions that in 2014 background levels of fine particles were 50 percent above target limits, and by roadsides was up to three times the thresholds. It comments on the anger of Parisian car owners over the event.

The article discusses America's state governors and their ability to shape federal policy. The author contends that policy changes on the state level are often a type of testing ground for changes on the federal level. Environmental policy, economic policy, and policies reforming health care are all being experimented with on a state level with some success.

Reports on Spain's water policy and opposition to the plan announced by Spain's government to redistribute water to dry regions. Controversy of the planned transfer of water from the Ebro river; How the conflict is part of a wider debate between Spain's depopulated interior and the crowded coast.

The article focuses on environmentalism in the mid-1990s and states that some environmental rules have created fast-growing clean-up industries. Businesses in many Countries have been complaining that environmental regulations push up their costs. Greens and economists have long recognized that growth should not be the only goal of government policy. But it is not yet time to write environmentalism off. The green movement has been cultivating new allies, and devising a new argument. Green rules have created a fast-growing clean-up industry, which is joining hands with green groups to lobby governments for stricter rules on emissions. There is a perfectly good reason for having regulations to protect the environment. It is to protect the environment. That is a public good that even economists recognize, and see the need to pay for, though they will rightly quibble about the price.

The article informs that cleaning up contaminated land has become the most expensive and controversial aspect of American environmental policy. Obligations to clean upland arise under a number of programmes. Some of the them impose burdens mainly on the private sector. Others, such as the need to treat old military sites owned by the departments of energy and defence, will fall on the tax-payer. Most of the debate about cleaning contaminated sites has concentrated on the Superfund programme.

The article reports that the British government may soon have to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in. The British government tends to see itself as a bastion of common sense where European environmental policy is concerned, weighing benefits against costs which more dogmatic governments ignore. Now, foreign dogmatism threatens to drive the government down a road it abhors- forcing it to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in. In practice, lots of "recyclables" slip out of Germany, looking for buyers abroad. In Britain, the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life.

The author discusses political posturing among Great Britain's political parties, including the Labor Party and the Conservative Party, over their respective stances toward global climate change. Topics include comments by British Prime Minister David Cameron against an environmental strategy for climate change mitigation and the economic aspects of domestic climate change policies.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has created three marine conservation reserves near the Marianas Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The reserves, which are undersea wildlife reserves, total more than 500,000 square kilometers. Environmentalists had long lobbied for the U.S. to expand its marine reserves.

The article reports that twelve states, along with several other organizations in the U.S., are suing to force the country to limit emissions of carbon dioxide. The Supreme Court heard argument in the case on November 29, 2006, and while the outcome is yet to be determined, it is speculated that the political mood seems to be shifting in favor of stricter government action to counter climate change. Further details of the case and the debate are explored.

This article offers a look at British economist Sir Nicholas Stern's report on climate change, which was commissioned by Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain. Also mentioned is David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party, who put green issues at the heart of his attempt to redefine the Conservative Party.

Now that Pasquall Maragall is head of the coalition government of Catalonia, he hopes to "paralyze" the Spanish government's plan to move water from north to south. The national hydrological plan, Europe's biggest water project, is set to be a big bone of contention in the long tussle between Madrid and Barcelona. The government of José María Aznar is pressing on: Aznar's chosen successor, Mariano Rajoy, has condemned Maragall's stance as "unpatriotic". The water balance between the wet north, where a third of Spain's rain falls, and the dry south, where 60 percent of the land is semi-arid, continues to inflame passions. The plan would divert a cubic kilometer every year away from the Ebro River, of which a fifth would flow to the Barcelona area and the rest to Valencia, Murcia and eastern Andalusia. Critics say the entire plan is outmoded, unwieldy and designed to benefit the government's business friends.

Focuses on the efforts of the Kazakhstan government to prevent pollution of the Caspian Sea by the petroleum industry. Suspension of drilling in the Kazakh sector after a spill by Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company; Problem created by onshore oil wells abandoned by the former Soviet Union when they became offshore wells.

Reports that, on May 3, 1994, the Clinton administration brokered a tenative agreement between environmentalists, chemical firms and insurers to reform America's nightmarish `superfund' law on hazardous-waste sites. Discussion of the superfund legislation which was passed in 1980; Two main strands of the proposed deal; Details.

Reports a policy to reduce America's emissions of `greenhouse gases' was conspicuously missing from the proposals announced by President Bill Clinton on October 19, 1993: a tax on fuel. `The Climate Change Action Plan' presented by Clinton and Vice President Al Gore contained a lot of hot air; Clinton's hope that voluntary co-operation with industry will produce a reduction in emissions; Partnerships to stimulate development of energy-efficient motors; Other ideas; Green lobbies.