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You've Got a Visible Party Line
GOP platform acknowledges human-caused climate change, leaves out ANWR drilling |
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28 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:59 AM on 28 Aug 2008 The Republican platform for 2008, hammered out by the Republican National Committee ahead of the party's convention next week, is mildly greener than in 2004, making it "the greenest platform we've ever had," according to a member of the committee. The draft platform acknowledges humans' role in climate change but still takes digs at the issu ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, politics, presidential race 08, United States (all these topics) |
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The Gore-y Details
Al Gore details plan for exclusively carbon-free electricity in U.S. by 2018 |
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17 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:34 AM on 17 Jul 2008 In a speech in Washington, D.C., today, climate activist Al Gore called for the United States to move toward using electricity that comes exclusively from carbon-free sources within 10 years in order to stave off catastrophic climate change. "I ask you to join with me to call on every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge," he said. "It's ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Is It Graduation Yet?
Bush admin gets senior-itis, says it won't decide on emissions before term ends |
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11 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:32 AM on 11 Jul 2008 EPA head Stephen Johnson. Photo: epa.gov Instead of deciding whether greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and formulating standards to reduce them -- as the Supreme Court ordered -- the EPA will run out the clock for the next few months soliciting more public comment. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA last year to decide on the GHG-endanger ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Dally Affirmation
Appeals court won't force EPA to speed up CO2 decision |
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27 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:08 AM on 27 Jun 2008 A federal appeals court has decided not to force the Bush administration to speed up its decision on whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health or welfare. The administration's decision on CO2 is a necessary step in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles and industrial sources. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollu ... |
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| Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Deep Space Excoriation
NASA internal investigation finds press-office climate distortion |
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03 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:21 AM on 03 Jun 2008 An investigation by NASA's inspector general has found that the agency's press office repeatedly distorted climate-change research findings and limited its scientists' access to the media between 2004 and 2006. NASA scientist James Hansen first spoke out about the press-office distortion to major news outlets two years ago, leading the agency to eventually alter its press po ... |
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| Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Mark(et)ed for Death
Three Wall Street banks announce funding restrictions for new coal power plants |
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04 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:24 AM on 04 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Three major investment banks, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, will announce new environmental standards today that are expected to make it more difficult for large coal-fired power plants in the United States to get funding. The standards anticipate some form of cap-and-trade program becoming law in the U.S. in coming years an ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, coal, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Don't Say We Didn't Warner You
Senate Environment Committee approves Lieberman-Warner climate bill |
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06 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:10 AM on 06 Dec 2007 A climate bill with a mandatory cap on U.S. CO2 emissions cleared a significant hurdle yesterday. America's Climate Security Act, cosponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.), was voted through by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee after an endurance-testing nine and a half hour hearing. It will now go to the floor of the Sena ... |
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| Topics: climate, legislation, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Dilutions of Grandeur
White House accused of watering down CDC testimony on climate change |
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24 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:35 AM on 24 Oct 2007 The White House is being accused anew this week of improperly interfering with the dissemination of information on climate change. Critics allege that officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget significantly edited the prepared testimony that CDC head Julie Gerberding gave to a congressional panel concerning the impacts of climate change on disease and pu ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, White House (all these topics) |
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D.C. Comical
Bush admin talks up voluntary actions with strong words at D.C. climate summit |
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28 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 5:48 AM on 28 Sep 2007 President Bush's climate summit of the world's top polluters kicked off yesterday in Washington, D.C., with rhetoric aplenty and the arrest of some 49 protesters from Greenpeace and other environmental groups outside the State Department offices. Meanwhile, inside the conference, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked up the need for strong climate action even while a ... |
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You Really Can't Have Too Many Meetings
U.S. will host climate meeting of world's largest emitters |
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26 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 2:06 PM on 26 Sep 2007 Representatives from the world's 17 largest greenhouse-gas emitters will gather tomorrow in the good ol' U.S. of A. for a climate-change discussion. (And yes, the U.N. just had one of those -- President Bush played hooky.) The group, which includes China, India, and Brazil, will be convened by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Bush will address them on Frida ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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My My, Is It 2007 Already?
Judge requires feds to submit climate research plan, impact assessment |
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23 Aug 2007 |
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| My My, Is It 2007 Already? Judge requires feds to submit climate research plan, impact assessment The Bushies are big stinkin' lawbreakers, a federal judge ruled this week. A 1990 federal law requires the U.S. government to provide a scientific report every four years on climate change and its effects on the environment, the economy, and public health, but the Bush administration chose to ignore its 2004 deadline fo ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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A Little Light Music
U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon |
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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. ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Charlie's Angles
Prince Charles sends veiled message to White House on climate change |
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04 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Charlie's Angles Prince Charles sends veiled message to White House on climate change Britain's Prince Charles has made it clear he views global warming as the direst problem facing the world community. The $6 million question has been: Would he say as much to the notoriously intransigent George Bush during a state dinner this week at the White House? You could cut the diplomatic tension with a fine ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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It's a Lap Dog's Life
Blair heads to D.C. to beg for Bush's support on G8 climate agenda |
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02 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| It's a Lap Dog's Life Blair heads to D.C. to beg for Bush's support on G8 climate agenda U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has put his political life on the line to support the Bush administration numerous times, citing the "special relationship" between the two countries. Ha ha, sucka! Next week Blair will fly to Washington, D.C., to beg the Bushies to support his ambitious agenda for July's ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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