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A green crossroads for the Supreme Court.
While the presumptive nominees for each party have similar environmental ideas, their nominees for the Supreme Court could decide environmental politics long after they are gone.
Time Magazine.
15 July 2008
EPA ties health problems to global warming; White House tried to bury analysis.
Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Climate pain ahead for folk in the 'kidney stone belt'.
Kidney stones will strike up to 2.25 million more Americans per year by 2050 because of temperature increases, research suggests.
New Scientist.
15 July 2008
Children, coal don't mix, China study shows.
Children born after the closure of a coal-burning plant in China had 60 percent fewer developmental problems, a study released Monday suggests, giving ammunition to those who argue the country should embrace cleaner sources of energy.
Associated Press.
15 July 2008
World's forests threatened by food, fuel demands: report.
The world's forests will be gobbled up by an escalating demand for fuel and food unless steps are taken to hand the people who live in them greater rights, two reports said.
Agence France-Presse.
15 July 2008
Setting precedent, Exelon plans a huge cut in its emissions.
Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, will promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008.
New York Times.
15 July 2008
State gets greener; activists ask more.
Connecticut lawmakers in recent years have committed more funding for protecting open space, ordered the cleanup of the dirtiest power plants and most recently joined the battle against climate change.
Bridgeport Connecticut Post.
15 July 2008
Sports teams increasingly eco-conscious .
All-Star Game planners are trying to reduce the event's ecological damage and encourage fans to lead eco-friendly lives.
San Diego Union-Tribune.
15 July 2008
Out of sight, out of clime: burying carbon in a vault of sea and rock.
The best place to store all that carbon dioxide from power plants might turn out to be volcanic formations off the U.S. west coast
Scientific American.
15 July 2008
Should all species be protected ?
When climate scientist Jean Brennan and others suggest it may be time to change the Endangered Species Act to allow some species to go extinct, it underscores the crisis they say the West and the world face from climate change.
McClatchy Newspapers.
15 July 2008
Warnings of a global land grab.
The relentless demand for raw materials will lead to the destruction of the world’s forests, a new study warns. The rush for fuel, food and wood will result in a global land grab that will leave millions of forest people impoverished and homeless.
London Daily Telegraph.
15 July 2008
CSIRO paints a grim picture of Murray in new report.
The Murray River could be robbed of more than two-thirds of the flows at its mouth by 2030 due to climate change and extraction.
Sydney Australian.
15 July 2008
EPA says greenhouse emissions endanger health.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, a critical finding that has languished in bureaucratic limbo since last December.
Reuters.
15 July 2008
Global warning: melting ice threatens Arctic foxes.
Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the frozen seas to survive the bleak winters.
London Guardian.
15 July 2008
Global warming may raise kidney stone risk.
Global warming could do more than hurt polar bears: It could force a rise in kidney stones, scientists warned Monday.
USA Today.
15 July 2008
Global warming may lead to more kidney stones, researchers say.
More Americans may develop kidney stones as global warming raises the risk of dehydration, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bloomberg News.
15 July 2008
Global warming may raise kidney stone cases: study.
One more unwanted consequence of global warming may be an increase in cases of kidney stones in areas with rising temperatures, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Reuters.
15 July 2008
Global warming to hit nether regions.
We all know that global climate change is heating sensitive ecological regions around the world. Now U.S. researchers are predicting it will bring a burning sensation to some sensitive human regions.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
15 July 2008
Global warming will bring more kidney stones. study warns.
The prevalence of kidney stones may rise by 30 percent or more in some U.S. areas if global temperatures rise as forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientists found.
Houston Chronicle.
15 July 2008
Global warming prompts polar station evacuation.
A spokesman for a Russian scientific institution says global warming is causing Arctic sea ice to melt earlier than it normally does, forcing the evacuation of a research station in the Western Arctic.
Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Russia reintroduces warship patrols in Arctic.
Russia announced Monday that it is sending warships to patrol Arctic waters for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union -- the latest move to increase the country's global military presence.
Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Ms Carby discusses global warming.
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has asked the Director of Hazard Management Cayman Islands Ms Barbara Carby to be part of two panel discussions on the subject of disaster risk reduction and climate change.
Grand Cayman Caymanian Compass.
15 July 2008
Global warming to spark rise in kidney stone cases.
It may not be the most profound effect of global warming, but it could be the most painful: Climate change could bring a sharp increase in cases of kidney stones in Illinois and other Midwestern states, according to a new study.
Chicago Tribune.
15 July 2008
US auto trends cloud fuel efficiency rules.
A law signed last year requiring a 40 percent jump in mileage economy by 2020 looks likely to be eclipsed much sooner, as pricier fuel drives demand for thriftier vehicles and the adoption of new technologies.
Reuters.
15 July 2008
Carbon ration cards demanded.
Scots should sign up to the idea of emissions rationing in order to become a zero-carbon community, according to the scientist behind a radical new environmental campaign.
Edinburgh Scotsman.
15 July 2008
State rebates lead more people to go solar.
California has added enough solar power to its electrical grid this year to light a small town, according to an update released Monday on the state's solar rebate program.
San Francisco Chronicle.
15 July 2008
Canada's Boreal forest gets some protection.
A huge swath of Canada's northern Boreal forest will be permanently protected from tree harvesting and mining as part of a plan to combat climate change, Ontario province's premier announced Monday.
Agence France-Presse.
15 July 2008
Ontario vows to protect boreal forest.
The Ontario government has declared a huge swath of land in the Far North off-limits to industrial development, as part of a plan to combat climate change and preserve much of the province's boreal forest and its endangered species.
Toronto Globe and Mail.
15 July 2008
Drift around the world on a high-tech lily-pad city.
It could be the solution to rising sea levels - a floating city for 50,000 people in the shape of a lily pad.
Sydney Morning Herald.
15 July 2008
Japan to buy emission allowances from Ukraine; seeks Czech deal.
Japan, a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, yesterday agreed to buy greenhouse-gas emission allowances from the Ukraine to reach a target set under the U.N. climate-change treaty.
Bloomberg News.
15 July 2008
Answer to carbon emissions may lie under the sea.
Scientists may have found a way to chemically lock up a trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide, many times the expected global carbon emissions over the next century.
Science.
15 July 2008
In deep-sea rock, a place for CO2.
Researchers are proposing to inject carbon dioxide into deep-sea basalt formations to remove it from the atmosphere.
New York Times.
15 July 2008
Carbon capture in the Juan de Fuca plate could store century of US CO2.
century's worth of future carbon dioxide emissions from the US could be stored securely in a layer of undersea rocks within easy reach of the west coast of the continent, according to a new study.
London Guardian.
15 July 2008
What will drive the energy ‘innovation revolution’?.
Satisfying global energy demand while limiting human influence on climate will require revolutionary advances in both policy and technology.
New York Times.
15 July 2008
Freight the big emitter of carbon, study shows.
The freight industry is not doing enough to cut pollution and is on track to contribute 13 per cent of all carbon emissions in Australia by 2020, a new report reveals.
Australian Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Nippon Steel says emissions rules may force overseas growth.
Nippon Steel Corp., Japan's largest maker of the metal, said it may be forced to increase production overseas should it be disadvantaged compared with rivals under new international climate change rules under discussion.
Bloomberg News.
15 July 2008
Union warns on loss of 15,000 aluminium jobs.
The aluminium industry should be partially exempted from the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme to avoid up to 15,000 Australian jobs being lost to China, Brazil and India.
Sydney Australian.
15 July 2008
Students in Bronx can't see big picture on cleaning up the borough.
The Bronx teen throws gum wrappers on the street, doesn't reuse plastic bags from the store and doesn't have a compact fluorescent light bulb in her bedroom.
New York Daily News.
15 July 2008
Court hearing set in dispute over Kansas coal plants.
A utility hopes a district court hearing Tuesday will bring it closer to building two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas despite a state regulator’s concerns about global warming.
Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Blumenthal: Rell proposal illegal.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has blasted as illegal a proposal from Gov. M. Jodi Rell to include consumer rebates in a plan to control emissions from power plants.
Hartford Courant.
15 July 2008
Governors can't agree on climate change fix.
Governors from across the country agree that it will take bold leadership to confront the nation's energy crisis. But they couldn't come to a consensus position on climate change or nuclear expansion or the future of coal.
Salt Lake Tribune.
15 July 2008
Cities pledge to reduce energy consumption.
Forty-four Maine communities have signed on to a Sierra Club program aimed at "stopping" global warming by encouraging energy conservation.
Augusta Kennebec Journal.
15 July 2008
More arrests at Newcastle coal protests.
Police have arrested another nine people today after continuing climate change protests at the Newcastle port.
Australian Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Pell a climate change sceptic.
The Pope may have put climate change on the agenda as he jetted into Sydney for World Youth Day, but the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, is a self-proclaimed sceptic.
Australian Associated Press.
15 July 2008
Australia battles against food barriers.
Amid rising food prices and fears that a hotter climate will make food scarcer, trade ministers will meet in Geneva next week to broker an agreement to remove agricultural trade barriers.
Sydney Morning Herald.
15 July 2008
Action on climate can't wait, voters say.
Three-quarters of voters believe Australia should act on climate change even if the rest of the world does not, according to a new poll that will hearten the Rudd Government as it prepares to release its discussion paper on emissions trading tomorrow.
Sydney Australian.
15 July 2008
Populate or perish, says Cardinal Pell.
The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney has called on Australia to populate or perish and declared himself a climate change sceptic - a day after the Pope called on Catholics to change their way of life to deal with global warming.
Sydney Morning Herald.
15 July 2008
UK government lambasted over own carbon emissions.
The British government's record in cutting its own emissions of planet-warming gases was "extremely poor", a cross-party panel of politicians said on Monday.
Reuters.
15 July 2008
British ministries making little progress in carbon cuts: watchdog.
British ministries are lagging significantly behind government targets to cut their own carbon emissions, a parliamentary watchdog warned Monday.
Agence France-Presse.
15 July 2008
Businesses emerge to help school fund-raisers go green.
For decades, children have hawked goods to help fund school extras. Now a handful of entrepreneurs are offering ecologically friendly products for kids and parents to sell for school fund-raisers.
Wall Street Journal.
15 July 2008
"Cadillac of worms" rules as an urban composter.
Bins of red worms, which turn everyday table scraps into a rich fertilizer, are becoming more common in Seattle-area condos and apartments as urban dwellers plant fruits and vegetables on decks and balconies.
Seattle Times.
15 July 2008
Canada's Boreal forest gets some protection.
A huge swath of Canada's northern Boreal forest will be permanently protected from tree harvesting and mining as part of a plan to combat climate change, Ontario province's premier announced Monday.
Agence France-Presse.
15 July 2008
Lawmakers cheer call for drilling.
Oklahoma lawmakers praised the move by President Bush to lift the executive ban on offshore oil and gas drilling Monday, but the political stalemate over expanding domestic production showed no sign of ending.
Oklahoma City Oklahoman.
15 July 2008
Bush decision on oil backed by industry.
The oil industry applauded President Bush's announcement Monday that he would lift an executive ban on offshore drilling, even though no drilling will take place unless Congress lifts its own ban.
Associated Press.
15 July 2008
State mulls best use of gas cash.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell's plan to divert money from a clean energy fund to subsidize consumer electricity bills is illegal, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
Greater Danbury News Times.
15 July 2008
B.L England power plant to get $204M. upgrade.
The owner of the B.L. England power plant plans to invest more than $204 million in improvements to meet air- and water-pollution rules by 2012.
Atlantic City Press.
15 July 2008
Coal-to-liquid plant planned for Pikeville.
Pike County Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford announced Monday that officials have chosen a site for a $4 billion coal-to-liquid plant in Pike County, which sits in the heart of eastern Kentucky coalfields.
Lexington Herald-Leader.
15 July 2008
