The company says: "As one of the nation's leading stewards of environmental responsibility and economic growth, CSX supports balanced environmental regulation that reduces emissions, preserves fuel diversity and energy independence, and ensures affordable energy for businesses and families.
For now we have no choice to but to utilize the tools at hand and try our best to reduce emissions, preserve endangered ecosystems and sustain biodiversity.
But there are many responsible operators who capture methane emissions, thereby preserving the tremendous advantage that natural-gas production has over coal.
Vik Bakshi (left), Caroline Lauer, and Yuan Zhang were part of a team of graduate students that traveled to Alaska to develop an innovative plan for reducing carbon emissions by preserving existing forest land.
One team, composed of six graduate students representing business, public health, design, law, and policy, visited Anchorage, Alaska, for a week while developing a plan for reducing emissions through preserving 150,000 acres of forest land owned by a native village.
But if we don't have a strategy for reducing global carbon emissions and preserving biodiversity, we could end up in a very bad place, like in a crazy rush into corn ethanol, and palm oil for biodiesel, without enough regard for their impact on the natural world.
More than a decade ago in the northeast corner of Bolivia, a group of polluters and environmentalists joined forces in the first large-scale experiment to curb climate change with a strategy that promised to suit their competing interests: compensating for greenhouse gas emissions by preserving forests.
In addition, companies can comply with the rules by investing in offsets, which are projects designed to reduce emissions by preserving forests or other strategies.
The new US-Canadian environmental agreement is aimed largely at cutting methane emissions and preserving the Arctic, but it could have repercussions on the other end of the continent.
"We need a balanced approach to fuel economy regulation with reasonable and achievable targets that will reduce our consumption of oil and greenhouse gas emissions while preserving U.S. jobs and promoting U.S. manufacturing," wrote Upton in his letter.
