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A Walk Through the Week's Climate News
The Climate Post: You heard it here first—Copenhagen a success 0
Posted 2 days, 3 hours ago A week of anticlimaxes saw President Barack Obama conducting a less-than-exuberant swing through China, the international community conceding a binding climate treaty at the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen, and U.S. lawmakers postponing to the spring of 2010 consideration of climate policy -- even as talk of a legislative "plan B" surfaced. -
A Walk Through the Week's Climate News
The Climate Post: Where there’s a Will there’s a fray 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago No prominent columnist spends more energy prying climate rhetoric and understanding farther apart than Newsweek and Washington Post columnist George Will. -
U.S.: missing R's and the point
The Climate Post: The gods must be crazy 1
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago Eric Roston takes a walk through the week's climate news -- and the problems facing India. -
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: U.S. to Kyoto Protocol: just not that into you 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The U.S. Senate is looking at new climate change legislation as the COP-15 global talks in Copenhagen approach this December. These two stories have fed off and driven each other all year. That they are happening together offers a clear view of just how stark differences are on what the U.S. should do. -
A Walk Through the Week's Climate News
The Climate Post: Gentlemen, start your lawsuits 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago First Things First: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation that if approved would force the largest industrial emitters, including utilities, energy-intensive manufacturing, and refineries, to invest in the cleanest available technology for new projects or major renovations. -
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Climate change blamed for New York midtown traffic 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago The journal Nature has published a study that attempts to find numerical “planetary boundaries” for global change, an effort that the authors believe will help policymakers better understand humanity’s impact on the planet and its life. -
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Climate debates re-emerge after week-long obscurity 4
Posted 2 months agoSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) turned heads this week when he suggested to reporters that the calendar is so full, a vote on climate change legislation might wait until next year.
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A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: If you don’t understand this you’re not alone 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks agoAt the risk of stating something innocuous that sounds controversial, coal, natural gas, and man-made refrigerant chemicals never did anything to anyone.
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A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Big hopes for Al G. 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Extending electricity's shelf-life, the recent carbon control high-five between the U.S. and China, and bending algae to our biofueled will: this week in climate news from The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.
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A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Smalls steps and giant leaps 3
Posted 4 months agoHillary Clinton visited India, which sees an increasing value in clean tech. Congress prepares for summer recess as Copenhagen climate talks loom ever closer, and George Will continues to test the limits of journalistic integrity. It's all in a week's worth of climate news.
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A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Pools of oil, plumes of gas 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The Washington-to-Beijing diplomatic shuttle shows no sign of slowing down. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited China this week to prod collaboration on clean energy technology. Chu announced the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a partnership that will study how to capture carbon dioxide emissions and trap them underground. And that's just the beginning of this week's climate news.
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Ewe Betcha
The Climate Post: L’Aquila, the Senate, and shrinking sheep 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Conflicting early reports obscured events at a major international summit in L’Aquila, Italy. The Group of Eight has apparently resolved to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, but disagreed on thorny “mid-term targets."
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A walk through the week's climate news
The Climate Post: Has the political climate changed? 7
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
First things first: The U.S. House of Representatives last week narrowly voted to overhaul the nation's energy economy by limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions, boosting efficiency, and developing renewable electricity sources. The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would limit, or "cap," annual pollution and allow industry to buy and sell, or "trade," credits in a new and tightly regulated commodity market. The vote, 219-212, sends an equivocal message to the Senate, where advocates face an even tougher sell. Eight Republicans voted with the majority and 44 Democrats broke with their party leaders.
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A walk through the week's climate news
The Climate Post: Deal or no deal 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks agoU.S. representatives may head into Independence Day recess with their climate work done for the moment.
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A walk through the week's climate news
The Climate Post: Gimme your wallet–or else the forest here gets it 2
Posted 5 months ago
The Obama administration this week released a 196-page plain-language report that describes predicted future impacts of climate change on the U.S. The report comes during a week of inconclusive negotiation among key House lawmakers on climate legislation, and as the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passes what could be the third energy bill in four years. "Green jobs" start to wear a human face.
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A walk through the week's climate news
The Climate Post: Insider baseball on Waxman-Markey, outsider baseball on Hawaiian solar power 3
Posted 5 months, 1 week agoFor those mercifully far enough away not to know, the “Capital beltway” is a looping highway, Interstate 495, the way many metro Washington residents ride to work. “Inside the beltway” isn’t coincident with Washington, DC. It also connotes a mythical place unrestrained by geography, a state of mind where consequential details of legislation attract and hold attention, sometimes for years on end. Whether you work inside or outside the beltway determines whether you think there was climate news this week in the capital, and by extension, Bonn.
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A walk through the week's climate news
The Climate Post: Waxman-Markey, Bonn, and carbon counting 6
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks agoThe U.S. Congress fast-tracks climate legislation, international negotiators hash through the first “negotiating text” for year-end global talks in Germany, and big businesses start counting their carbon. The pile of climate stories this week climbed faster than predicted New England sea levels.
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The Climate Post: Something wrought in the state of Denmark? 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
A roundup of the week's climate news, from Copenhagen to China to Russia.
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The Climate Post: The House at the center of the world 0
Posted 6 months agoLately, every week is the most consequential in the history of climate change. This week was no exception.
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The Climate Post: The blind press grope the carbon legislation elephant 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The first installment in a regular column from The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, rounding up and analyzing the climate news of the week.
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