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Hot politics.
Bi-partisan political and economic forces prevented the U.S. government from confronting what may be one of the most serious problems facing humanity today, global warming.
Frontline.
25 April 2007
Concern soars about global warming as world's top environmental threat.
After a year of increasing scientific alarms, public concern about global warming has risen dramatically.
ABC World News Tonight.
25 April 2007
Al Gore trains a global army.
Al Gore's Climate Project has drawn everyone from Wal-Mart workers to Cameron Diaz.
USA Today.
25 April 2007
Senate Democrats press EPA chief on global warming.
Pressed repeatedly by Senate Democrats, the Bush administration's top environmental official would not say Tuesday when he would respond to a Supreme Court ruling that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks.
Boston Globe.
25 April 2007
Russian energy giant to bundle carbon credits with gas sales.
In Russia, even modest improvements to industrial plants can yield great reductions in carbon emissions. Gazprom plans to bundle emissions credits with its gas sales.
New York Times.
25 April 2007
Climate change bites.
While much attention has focused on the broad environmental consequences of global warming, a case of malaria in Corsica highlights the shift of public health toward the center of the climate change debate.
Financial Times.
25 April 2007
Wolfowitz deputy under fire over climate.
One of Paul Wolfowitz’s two handpicked deputies, Juan José Daboub, tried to water down references to climate change in one of the World Bank’s main environmental strategy papers, the bank’s chief scientist has told the Financial Times.
Financial Times.
25 April 2007
In warming world, time to reconsider the clothesline.
A dryer is typically the second biggest electricity-using appliance after the refrigerator.
Christian Science Monitor.
25 April 2007
Out of spotlight, Dodd runs on hope.
Senator Christopher J. Dodd had a small group of New Hampshire voters enthralled as he discussed -- of all things -- a carbon tax on businesses to discourage them from polluting.
Boston Globe.
25 April 2007
Teens rally for safer cosmetics.
Teenage girls gathered in the heart of San Francisco's shopping district Tuesday to protest the makeup of their makeup, urging regulators to follow Europe's lead and ban harmful chemicals from cosmetics.
Oakland Tribune.
25 April 2007
Lost world warning from North Sea.
The discovery of a huge prehistoric "lost country" hidden below the North Sea serves as a warning for the scale of impact that climate change can cause.
BBC.
25 April 2007
EPA won't specify global warming plans.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency repeatedly refused to say Tuesday how soon he will comply with a Supreme Court ruling and decide whether to regulate carbon dioxide, the leading gas linked to global warming.
Associated Press.
25 April 2007
Climate toll ‘to double within 25 years’.
Deaths and injuries from climate change are set to more than double in the next 25 years, according to estimates to be published soon.
Financial Times.
25 April 2007
UN panel proposes giant parasol in space.
Governments should consider proposals to put a huge barrier in space to block sunlight if conventional efforts to curb rising temperatures don't succeed, says a draft report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Canadian Press.
25 April 2007
Government to unveil new emissions rules on Thursday.
Canada will unveil rules on Thursday to restrict the output of greenhouse gases from heavy emitters such as energy companies and power-generators, a spokesman for Environment Minister John Baird said on Tuesday.
Reuters.
25 April 2007
Democrats want swifter EPA action on emissions standards.
EPA's chief came under fire from Democrats, who said he had failed to respond more aggressively to the Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gas emissions could be federally regulated.
Los Angeles Times.
25 April 2007
EPA moves on state emissions.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency today signed papers in response to California's request to begin regulating tailpipe emissions from cars, SUVs and light trucks.
Orange County Register.
25 April 2007
EPA takes up Calif. plan to limit greenhouse gases.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday agreed to consider a California request to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, a plan that has been on hold for more than a year.
Reuters.
25 April 2007
Fossil animal tracks point to climate risks.
Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global warming.
Reuters.
25 April 2007
Virgin seeks to reduce its carbon emissions.
Airline orders lighter jets from Boeing, plans to test a form of biofuel next year
San Francisco Chronicle.
25 April 2007
Academics denounce global warming sceptic.
Pretoria academic Professor Will Alexander has been accused of publishing biased, self-delusional and "scientifically indefensible" viewpoints on global climate change.
KwaZulu-Natal Mercury.
25 April 2007
How to deal with climate change.
United Nations-sponsored scientists who warned of the dangers of a warming Earth will issue a new study next month describing how to avert the worst.
South African Press Association.
25 April 2007
EU and US in climate change dispute.
The EU and the US are locked in a dispute over climate change, days before a showpiece summit intended to display co-operation between the two.
New York WNBC-TV.
25 April 2007
Climate clash threatens EU-US summit.
The European Union and the US are locked in a dispute over climate change, days before a showpiece summit intended to display co-operation between the two.
Financial Times.
25 April 2007
B.C. joins Schwarzenegger's 'carbon credits' trading market.
British Columbia's government announced Tuesday it will be the first Canadian province to join an emerging international system to fight global warming by creating a carbon trading market that lets polluters buy "carbon credits" from cleaner and greener companies.
Vancouver Province.
25 April 2007
Would the world be better with a space umbrella?
If all else fails in the battle to curb global warming, there's always the big umbrella in space.
Canadian Press.
25 April 2007
'Lead fight' to save earth.
The big nations have been urged to act now to stem the tide of imminent danger posed by climate change.
Barbados Nation News.
25 April 2007
Strasbourg carbon cost condemned.
The European Parliament's monthly move from Brussels to Strasbourg generates more than 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, Green Party MEPs say.
BBC.
25 April 2007
Ice clouds pique curiosities.
NASA plans to launch a spacecraft today that will study mysterious ice clouds forming at the highest levels of the atmosphere -- a relatively recent phenomenon that might be related to global warming.
Melbourne Florida Today.
25 April 2007
Most Britons believe that airlines are failing to clear the air.
Nearly three quarters of the British public believes that the airline industry is not doing enough to tackle global warming and rising carbon dioxide emissions.
London Times.
25 April 2007
C4 film denying global warming under fire.
A controversial Channel 4 documentary that claimed global warming was not happening has come under fresh attack with a point-by-point rebuttal of some of its key claims being sent to Ofcom, the television regulator.
Edinburgh Scotsman.
25 April 2007
Germany also faces extreme weather due to global warming.
German meteorologists say that the country must start preparing for extreme weather that could cause numerous deaths due to global warming. Germany has already heated up by 0.9 degrees Celsius in the past century.
Deutsche Welle.
25 April 2007
Party climate targets 'lacking'.
A leading climatologist has accused all of Wales' main political parties of lacking ambition on combating greenhouse gas emissions.
BBC.
25 April 2007
Miscreants delay beach reclamation programme.
Squatters in Lagos, Africa's fastest growing city, are hampering government plans to fight a possible ocean surge due to global warming, the Nigerian news agency reported Tuesday.
Agence France-Presse.
25 April 2007
China: Climate takes a backseat to economy.
China says it will continue to put economic development ahead of combating climate change despite acknowledging the serious impact of global warming.
ABC News.
25 April 2007
Emissions to become the great pall of China.
Explosive growth means China will overtake America this year as world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
London Independent.
25 April 2007
Growth priority over carbon cuts for China.
Climate change could seriously hinder China's development, hitting agricultural regions with increased droughts and coastal areas with worsening floods.
Associated Press.
25 April 2007
China postpones climate change report.
China has delayed releasing a long-awaited report on how to deal with climate change, an official said on Tuesday, amid rumours of internal government bickering over its economic impact.
Agence France-Presse.
25 April 2007
China to top USA in greenhouse emissions.
China will overtake the USA as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gasses this year.
USA Today.
25 April 2007
China lukewarm on climate change goal.
Beijing has for the first time disclosed internal targets to fight global warming but these, even if officially adopted, are as unambitious as a similar US goal.
Reuters.
25 April 2007
Bangkok set to battle global warming.
Bangkok's administration is going to tackle global warming by reducing emissions, creating more green areas and increasing public awareness of climate change.
Bangkok Nation.
25 April 2007
Dirty Beijing air? Make rain.
China announced today its plan to address climate change. Good thing, too, because that Beijing air is nasty.
MarketPlace.
25 April 2007
China could overtake US as biggest emissions culprit by November.
China may overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases within months, one of the world's leading energy analysts predicted yesterday.
London Guardian.
25 April 2007
Growth trumps environment in China.
Global warming could devastate China's economic growth, slashing food production and leaving its heavily populated coastal cities at risk from rising sea levels, the country's first official report on climate change has concluded.
Sydney Morning Herald.
25 April 2007
Global warming to further meteorological risk: Swaminathan.
Father of the Green Revolution in the India, M S Swaminathan has said that global warming would aggravate the agriculture related meteorological risks as during the last summer, the Himalayan and Ladakh glaciers showed signs of melting.
Kerala News.
25 April 2007
Student launches green legal bid to block CUB site.
A second law student is using the Land and Environment Court to target the State Government on global warming.
Sydney Morning Herald.
25 April 2007
Flannery considers handing back award.
Scientist and environmentalist Tim Flannery says he has considered handing back his Australian of the Year award because of Prime Minister John Howard's climate change policies.
Australian Associated Press.
25 April 2007
Howard undermined on climate.
The nation's leading scientific body, the CSIRO, has undermined Prime Minister John Howard's position on climate change by advising that big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions appear to be both inevitable and affordable for Australia.
Melbourne Age.
25 April 2007
Revolt on uranium plan grows.
Four more Labor frontbenchers have joined the push to scuttle Kevin Rudd's plan to end the ALP's ban on new uranium mines at this weekend's national conference.
Sydney Australian.
25 April 2007
CSIRO contradicts Howard over climate action.
Big greenhouse emissions cuts are affordable and achievable, the CSIRO says, contradicting statements from Prime Minister John Howard yesterday that put economic prosperity ahead of reducing emissions.
Australian Associated Press.
25 April 2007
Company gets green light on new bulbs.
Incandescent light bulbs will be phased out by 2010 but until then one company stands to make millions of dollars by giving away energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Sydney Morning Herald.
25 April 2007
Speech on environment plan accidentally leaked.
The Conservative government's long-anticipated release of its environment plan hit an embarrassing snag Tuesday night when a copy of a speech to be delivered Wednesday by Environment Minister John Baird was accidentally leaked to the Opposition.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
25 April 2007
Canada plans to curb greenhouse emissions 20% by 2020 .
Canada will curb its output of greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020, Environment Minister John Baird said in a speech published today on a government Web site.
Bloomberg News.
25 April 2007
Smog cleanup 'a bad use of money'.
The Ontario government has firmly rejected the idea of spending up to $1.6 billion on pollution-control technologies to clean up the province's coal plants, arguing the expensive measures would do nothing to combat climate change and would take too long to implement.
Toronto Star.
25 April 2007
B.C. joins Schwarzenegger's 'carbon credits' trading market.
British Columbia's government announced Tuesday it will be the first Canadian province to join an emerging international system to fight global warming by creating a carbon trading market that lets polluters buy "carbon credits" from cleaner and greener companies.
Vancouver Sun.
25 April 2007
Oil patch gloomy over Tory emissions plan.
Forget about carbon dioxide emissions. The rising levels of angst emanating from Alberta's oil and gas industry is expected to skyrocket after the Conservative government's unveiling of reduction targets.
Canadian Press.
25 April 2007
Leaked pollution plan sets 20% goal.
The Conservative government is planning to bring in restrictions on industrial polluters to cut greenhouse gases by 20 per cent, or 150 million tonnes, by 2020.
Toronto Star.
25 April 2007
Liberals want early release of environment rules.
The Liberal party is calling on the Conservatives to move up the release of their environmental rules for industry after a speech outlining the plan to be unveiled tomorrow was accidentally faxed to the opposition lobby of the House of Commons.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
25 April 2007
20% emissions cut by 2020.
The Conservative government's new climate change plan calls for greenhouse gas emissions to be slashed by 20% below current levels by 2020, Environment Minister John Baird said yesterday.
CanWest News Service.
25 April 2007
Tories to flick switch on inefficient bulbs.
Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn is expected to announce plans Wednesday to ban inefficient light bulbs in the first flash of the Conservative government's larger strategy to combat climate change.
CBC Canada.
25 April 2007
Tory plan calls for 20% cut in emissions by 2020.
Environment Minister reveals plans for greenhouse gases.
Edmonton Journal.
25 April 2007
Oil-sands obstacle: emissions.
After several years of breakneck growth in Canada's oil sands, energy producers now seem to be on an obstacle course.
Wall Street Journal.
25 April 2007
Climate change a security issue, McCain says.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) cast global warming and America's dependence on foreign oil as national security issues in a speech on energy policy, the last of three designed to outline the foundation of his soon-to-be announced presidential campaign.
Washington Post.
25 April 2007
Senate panel rejects Ca. governor's plan to build more dams.
Senate Democrats rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $4.5 billion proposal to build two dams, saying the projects were premature and lacked commitments from local water users to help pay for them.
Associated Press.
25 April 2007
Funds step away on climate change issues.
Investors pressing companies to say more about the possible financial effects of global warming haven't found an ally in large mutual funds.
Associated Press.
25 April 2007
Billionaire challenges U.S. to fight global warming.
British billionaire entrepreneur and environmentalist Richard Branson is putting his giant green footprint on global aviation and he wants the White House to follow his example.
Reuters.
25 April 2007
Bush administration's response to global warming under scrutiny.
The Bush administration's chief environmental officer came under fire on Capitol Hill this morning for failing to act more aggressively to address global warming.
Los Angeles Times.
25 April 2007
Governor pledges to fight global warming.
Gov. Deval Patrick held up an energy-saving light bulb, with its signature spiral design, before a rapt audience at the Statehouse and announced that a new age of enlightenment had begun in Massachusetts.
Ottaway News Service.
25 April 2007
EPA accused of dragging feet on global warming.
The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency came under fire from congressional Democrats on Tuesday for failing to respond more aggressively to the Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse-gas emissions can be federally regulated.
San Jose Mercury News.
25 April 2007
EPA may let California set rules.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it will start considering a request by California to set its own fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, as Congress pressures the agency to write new rules for vehicles.
Detroit Free Press.
25 April 2007
Green grocers.
Chains embrace energy-saving strategies for practical and public-image purposes.
Associated Press.
25 April 2007
LS Power lobbies against renewable resources mandate.
A company hoping to build a power plant near Waterloo has written a letter to area lawmakers urging them to reject legislation that would require merchant coal-fired plants to invest in renewable energy.
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.
25 April 2007
Investors see greenbacks in green energy.
Renewable energy is fast becoming a hot new target for the investment market.
Stamford Advocate.
25 April 2007
Senate panel presses EPA.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee members yesterday pressed the EPA to decide quickly whether to regulate carbon dioxide, and also urged quick action on allowing CA to start regulating greenhouse gas.
Washington Times.
25 April 2007
Andrews hails drive to cap carbon output.
Accusing the Bush administration of "wasting six precious years," NJ Rep. Rob Andrews, D-Haddon Heights, called on the United States to "redeem itself" in the eyes of the world by tackling global warming.
Cherry Hill Courier-Post.
25 April 2007
EPA chief noncommital on enforcing Clean Air Act.
The head of the EPA yesterday repeatedly refused to say how soon he will comply with a Supreme Court ruling and decide whether to regulate carbon dioxide, the leading gas linked to global warming.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
25 April 2007
Ads push global warming toward debate stage.
With help from actor Robert Redford and key state legislators, environmentalists launched a full-scale effort this week to make global warming a priority issue for presidential candidates in South Carolina.
Columbia State.
25 April 2007
Expert warns of negative impact of global warming on Jamaica.
Jamaica stands to lose some of its land surface in the future, and infrastructure close to the island's coasts could be lost to the sea, if global warming continues unchecked.
Kingston Jamaica Observer.
25 April 2007
AEP says it won't abandon coal plans.
Regulatory hurdles, legal challenges and slow site work will keep American Electric Power from starting operations at two coal-fired plants along the Ohio River until the middle of the next decade.
Columbus Dispatch.
25 April 2007
Biodiesel crops considered.
California farmers are hoping to strike oil - vegetable oil, that is - with crops that can be processed into biodiesel, an increasingly sought-after fuel squeezed from oilseed plants.
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25 April 2007
Solar panel offers real-life energy lesson.
Students entering the Pescadero Elementary and Middle School campus can now look up and see a solar panel sitting proudly on a pole in front of the school, installed just a week ago.
Oakland Tribune.
25 April 2007
China environment official wants action by citizens.
A top Chinese environmental official said on Wednesday that greater citizen involvement was needed to rein in the country's powerful polluters as he announced new transparency rules.
Reuters.
25 April 2007
Oz fears jet-flight guilt.
Australia is concerned that growing guilt over the impact of jet flights on global warming could hit the country's multi-billion-dollar tourism industry, officials say.
Agence France-Presse.
25 April 2007
Gov. will not meet attorney.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declined to meet with an attorney from Ecuador who asked for help in pressing a lawsuit that alleges environmental damage by Chevron Corp., a financial supporter of the governor.
Los Angeles Times.
25 April 2007
Sununu supports emissions bill.
Sen. John Sununu has signed on as a lead sponsor to a bill that would require power plants to cut emissions of four pollutants that contribute to poor air quality, including carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
Concord Monitor.
25 April 2007
Group protests coal power plant.
Environmental activists seeking to halt the permitting of a coal power plant’s construction in Blakely stopped in Albany Tuesday to voice pollution concerns about the plant.
Albany Herald.
25 April 2007
Green living takes root; but habits die hard.
Most Americans believe that dramatic steps are needed to conserve energy and reduce the threat of global warming, but they are willing to go only so far in changing their lifestyles to “go green.
Ithaca Journal.
25 April 2007
Lawmakers urged to pass pollution cuts.
The debate about how to fight global climate change moved to the Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers took up a proposal for Maine to join the nation's first multi-state effort to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
Portland Press Herald.
25 April 2007
Students launch recycling at school.
Four students at Wappingers Junior High School didn't just hear about human impact on the environment, they decided to do something about it. Led by their friend Lindsey Chew, the seventh-graders have started a bottle recycling program in their school's cafeterias.
Poughkeepsie Journal.
25 April 2007
20 years later, N.J.'s recycling effort wanes
While N.J. once separated 67% of trash, figures are now 34%.
Newark Star-Ledger.
25 April 2007
GE Aviation in on biofuel project.
General Electric Aviation will team with aircraft maker Boeing and an arm of British-based Virgin Atlantic Airways to develop and test a new biofuel to power jet engines.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
25 April 2007
Change in energy policy sought for Indiana region.
Activists are pushing for standards on renewable sources of electricity.
South Bend Tribune.
25 April 2007
Northwestern no enemy of proposed highwood generator.
NorthWestern Energy Chief Executive Officer Michael Hanson talked Tuesday about the future of energy in Montana.
Great Falls Tribune.
25 April 2007
State Senate panel rejects water-storage bill.
Rejecting one of Gov. Schwarzenegger's big agenda items, a Democratic-led committee on Tuesday voted down a bill that would ask voters to spend $2.5 billion on water storage, including a dam east of Fresno.
Fresno Bee.
25 April 2007
Democrats dismiss governor’s dam proposal.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday rejected California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $4.5 billion proposal to build two dam projects.
Marysville-Yuba City Appeal-Democrat.
25 April 2007
