Results tagged “Associated Press” from Innovations

Auction Sets Carbon Emissions at $3.07 per Ton

September 29, 2008 2:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The country's first auction of emissions permits set the price of releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at $3.07 per ton. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a consortium of 10 states in the Northeast, held the first U.S. cap-and-trade auction last week and announced the results today, the Associated Press reports. Under the program, companies buy permits to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases, and if they reduce their emissions they can sell the permits to other companies for a profit.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Associated Press, carbon offsets, greenhouse gases

Anthrax Attack Spurred New Branch of Science

August 11, 2008 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Whether Bruce Ivins, the scientist who killed himself last month as the FBI was closing in, was indeed the person who mailed deadly anthrax in 2001 or not, there is at least a legacy that could help the nation in a future emergency, the Associated Press reports. The attacks spurred a new branch of science, microbial forensics. Investigators used it to identify the unique genetic signature of the spores from the attack and trace them back to a specific flask, which they then linked to Ivins.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: anthrax, Associated Press, Ivins, microbial forensics

Shaping the Next Generation Internet

July 31, 2008 1:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A project to re-think the Internet from the ground up has received $12 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. The Associated Press reports that the money will go toward developing prototypes for the Global Environment for Network Innovations, a testbed to try out new networking ideas. Actual construction of GENI would cost about $350 million.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Associated Press, GENI, Global Environment for Network Innovations, National Science Foundation, NSF