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How Much CO2 Does a Kegger Emit? College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge		13 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
How Much CO2 Does a Kegger Emit? College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge Aiming to give greenhouse-gas reduction the old college try, 280 institutions have signed on to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. Modeled after a pact signed by mayors across the country, the agreement commits schools to promoting research on global warming, keeping track of emissions, and aiming ...
Topics: climate, education, United States (all these topics)

Must Be All That Hot Air In Crawford Texas tops list of greenhouse-gas emissions by U.S. states		04 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Must Be All That Hot Air In Crawford Texas tops list of greenhouse-gas emissions by U.S. states Know what would make the climate debate even contentiouser? Some sort of ranking of which U.S. states produce the most emissions. Oh look! The Associated Press has analyzed a set of U.S. Department of Energy carbon dioxide data from 2003! Let the finger-pointing begin. It seems that states with a lot of co ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, United States (all these topics)

Wider, but still paper thin Reality checking the polls	Ken Ward	31 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

A really vicious cycle Are Americans smart enough to learn from Australia's crisis?	JMG	26 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, United States (all these topics)

Poison the people? Everyone's doing it Canada may raise pesticide levels to match U.S.	Katharine Wroth	10 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Canada, food, United States (all these topics)

One Bad Scrapple Spoils the Bunch Regulators reveal new information on China-U.S. food links		09 May 2007	Daily Grist
One Bad Scrapple Spoils the Bunch Regulators reveal new information on China-U.S. food links The tangled food relationship between China and the U.S. keeps getting tangledier. As new details emerge in the wake of the March wave of pet deaths, concerns about the possibility of tainted food reaching U.S. dinner tables are growing. U.S. regulators said yesterday that cyanuric acid, a chemical used as a ...
Topics: agriculture, China, industrial ag, news, United States (all these topics)

Battle of the developed vs. the developing Climate change justice is contentious	Joseph Romm	04 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, China, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, United States (all these topics)

The responsibility era	David Roberts	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Route of the Problem Following U.S. consumerism through the fields of China and Brazil	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Victual Reality
In what surely counts as one of the greatest feats in the history of global trade, the United States has essentially outsourced its manufacturing base to China in little more than a decade. It all starts with shuttered factories. Photo: iStockphoto But in doing so, the U.S. has helped unleash new trends in global agriculture that threaten global climate stability and biodiversit ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Brazil, China, industrial ag, United States, Victual Reality, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part III This time, it's personal	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Due Deferens Separate studies show chemicals, cigarettes may affect male birth rate		11 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Due Deferens Separate studies show chemicals, cigarettes may affect male birth rate The percentage of boys born in the U.S. and Japan each year has gradually declined over the last three decades, a new study says -- and pollutants are a possible cause. "Male reproductive health is in trouble," says lead researcher Devra Lee Davis of the University of Pittsburgh, noting that both adult fertil ...
Topics: green living, Japan, news, population, United States (all these topics)

Power ballad Canucks 1, US 0	Kate Sheppard	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Canada, energy, energy efficiency, United States (all these topics)

Femme Natal Anika Rahman, women's- and reproductive-rights advocate, answers readers' questions		16 Mar 2007	InterActivist
What are the implications of the Bush administration's denial of funds to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)? ��-- Name not provided Anika Rahman, Americans for UNFPA. In 1969, the U.S. was integral in the formation of UNFPA, recognizing the importance of providing women's health care. Since 2002, the U.S. has withheld $161 million from UNFPA. The denial of funds strips the moral, ...
Topics: green living, health, InterActivist, interview, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Why is climate change not taken seriously in the U.S.? Is it a communications failure?	Andrew Dessler	14 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, United States (all these topics)

A Little Light Music U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
A Little Light Music U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon The world is seeing the energy-efficient light: a U.S. coalition including Philips Lighting and the Natural Resources Defense Council will push to phase out incandescent bulbs by 2016. ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Intent of a Woman Anika Rahman, women's- and reproductive-rights advocate, answers Grist's questions		12 Mar 2007	InterActivist
Anika Rahman. What work do you do? What's your job title? I'm the president of Americans for UNFPA. UNFPA, or the United Nations Population Fund, is essentially the United Nations' women's health agency. It provides women's health care and promotes the rights of women all over the world. Working in 140 countries, it is the largest international source of such assistance. Americans for ...
Topics: green living, health, InterActivist, interview, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Cloudy, With a Chance of Powers As Asian economies grow, increased pollution affecting world's weather		06 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Cloudy, With a Chance of Powers As Asian economies grow, increased pollution affecting world's weather Scientists say smog from Asia is drifting east, seeding storm clouds, and intensifying weather in the Pacific. On a typical spring or summer day, they say, nearly a third of the air high above the U.S. West Coast comes from Asia. And according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academ ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, news, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

What Goes Up Must Keep Going Up Draft of U.S. government report says greenhouse-gas emissions on the rise		05 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
What Goes Up Must Keep Going Up Draft of U.S. government report says greenhouse-gas emissions on the rise A leaked draft of a U.S. government report shows that officials expect greenhouse-gas emissions to keep climbing under President Bush's watch. The U.S. Climate Action Report -- which was due to the U.N. over a year ago and comes with its own ironicalicious acronym -- says emissions will be 11 per ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, United States (all these topics)

You Wanna Peace of Him? Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize		02 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Wanna Peace of Him? Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Three cheers for Al Gore, whose incessant blabbering about climate change has gotten him nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. "Al Gore with his movie and his dedication and his active diplomacy among world leaders has really moved the issue forward," says Boerge Brende, one of two Norwegian lawmakers who snuck Gore's nomination in just bef ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, news, United States (all these topics)

Hidin' Dirty Bush pushes 'alternative' fuels plan, critics push back		25 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Hidin' Dirty Bush pushes "alternative" fuels plan, critics push back President Bush got bizzy promoting his new energy goals yesterday, taking his message to a DuPont biofuels facility in Delaware and signing an executive order requiring federal agencies to buy more fuel-efficient vehicles -- including plug-in hybrids when they become available. But Bush's plan to cut gasoline use 20 percent in 10 years by p ...
Topics: news, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

That Doesn't Even Make Fence Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws		17 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
That Doesn't Even Make Fence Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws It's hard to think of a worse idea than building a 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, but here's a shot: building a border fence without abiding by the Endangered Species Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or National Environmental Policy Act. Yet on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael ...
Topics: Mexico, news, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Nuclear energy and China's development China got troubles	David Roberts	14 Jan 2007	Gristmill

Topics: books, business, interview, nuclear power, oil, politics, Terry Tamminen, United States (all these topics)

Haul Out the Halter Tops It's official: 2006 was warmest year ever for the contiguous U.S.		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Haul Out the Halter Tops It's official: 2006 was warmest year ever for the contiguous U.S. In 2006, the contiguous U.S. experienced its warmest year since records began in 1895 (also the year of the first volleyball game -- who knew?). Every state in the Lower 48 had average temperatures above, well, average; New Jersey hit its highest temperature ever. The U.S. also logged its fourth-warmest December -- little surprise to Eas ...
Topics: climate, news, United States (all these topics)

20 predictions for 2007 Every one destined to be 100% correct	David Roberts	31 Dec 2006	Gristmill

Topics: lists, news, United States (all these topics)

Overestimating the cost of emissions reductions Robert Novak does it on purpose	Andrew Dessler	31 Dec 2006	Gristmill

Topics: climate, consumerism, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

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