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Greenpeace and others protest Heathrow Airport expansion |
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29 Feb 2008 |
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| "Row" in "Heathrow" Greenpeace and others protest Heathrow Airport expansion Posted at 11:38 AM on 29 Feb 2008 Greenpeace and other eco-activists have been protesting mightily against a planned third runway for London's Heathrow Airport, which would demolish the nearby town of Sipson and, say activists, be completely counter to Britain's ambitious carbon-cutting goals. The airport-expansion plan has brought significant opposition from both politicians and residen ... |
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| Topics: air travel, climate, England, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, London, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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The League of Extraordinary Conditions
EPA releases unconvincing justification for denying California waiver |
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29 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:54 AM on 29 Feb 2008 For the long wait that preceded it, the U.S. EPA's just-released justification for disallowing California to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions is rather anticlimactic. The 48-page document argues that California lacks the "compelling and extraordinary conditions" required for special regulatory permission, because the rest of the nation ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Cap and Evade
Companies not following through on pledge to lobby for carbon reduction |
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22 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:48 PM on 22 Feb 2008 Companies participating in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership have pledged to lobby for a mandatory cap on U.S. carbon emissions, but -- and there's always a but -- many of those same corporations are working behind the scenes to undermine greenhouse-gas regulation. Just a few examples: USCAP members General Electric and Caterpillar sit on the board of a group called the Cente ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, Department of Commerce, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Put Your Hyde in Park
London mayor triples fee for most-polluting cars entering city center |
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12 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:44 AM on 12 Feb 2008 London Mayor Ken Livingstone tripled the fee drivers of the most-polluting vehicles will have to pay to enter the city center beginning in October, from about $16 to $49. The so-called congestion charge was introduced in 2003 in an effort to decrease traffic and greenhouse-gas emissions, encouraging Londoners and visitors to use public transportation instead of cars. Toda ... |
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| Topics: cars, climate, England, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Ready to Barack and Roll
Obama says will move immediately on international climate pact |
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11 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:05 PM on 11 Feb 2008 Prior to his weekend wins in Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barack Obama promised to begin developing the U.S. position on an international pact to halt global warming now, instead of waiting until 2009. "I've been in conversations with former Vice President [Al] Gore repeatedly, and his recommendation, which I think is sound, is that you c ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, climate change mitigation, elections, international politics, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Urban Legends
Cities run into roadblocks in attempts to reduce CO2 |
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08 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:21 AM on 08 Feb 2008 Announcing an ambitious plan to reduce a city's greenhouse gases is the easy part; when it comes to putting goals into action, local officials tend to run up against significant roadblocks. To take just a few examples: The subprime mortgage crisis has left taxpayers across the country unable to fund efficiency-minded proposals. Across the country, homeowners' associations have vetoed plans for ho ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, local politics, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Full of Mitt
Romney flip-flops, does not support California CO2 waiver |
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05 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:39 AM on 05 Feb 2008 Remember how Mitt Romney joined with the other GOP presidential candidates in appearing to support California in its quest to gain a waiver from the U.S. EPA to allow it to regulate vehicle CO2 emissions? How Romney said, and we quote, "I side with states being able to make their own decisions, even if I don't always agree with the decisions they make"? Well, the Mittster, a fervent ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Mitt Romney, news, politics, presidential race 08 (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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Right Said Ted
Sen. Ted Kennedy endorses Obama |
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28 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:09 PM on 28 Jan 2008 Influential Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), whose family has long been friendly with the Clintons, has nonetheless endorsed Barack Obama for president. Included among Ted's reasons: "With Barack Obama ... we will make the United States the great leader and not the great roadblock in the fateful fight against global warming." Kennedy is the brother of late President John F. Kennedy; JFK's daughter, Caroli ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Take Me Down to Paradise City
U.S. sets low expectations for this week's climate meeting |
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28 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:13 AM on 28 Jan 2008 Leaders from the world's major economies will fly big planes to Honolulu this week for a chat about reducing global greenhouse-gas emissions. Ironicalicious! Even better, the Bush administration, which is hosting the meeting, isn't expecting much out of it. "I think these will be iterative discussions, which the initial goal will be to lay out a variety of options witho ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, news, politics (all these topics) |
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3-2-1 ... Blast Offsets!
Efficacy of House of Reps' carbon offsets questioned |
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28 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:10 AM on 28 Jan 2008 Some greens and congressfolk are questioning the efficacy of the U.S. House of Representatives' recent purchase of $89,000 in carbon offsets as part of their greening the Capitol initiative. "It didn't change much behavior that wasn't going to happen anyway," said Joseph Romm of the Center for American Progress. "It just, I think, demonstrated why offsets are controversi ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, climate, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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The Policed We Can Do
Report warns of new security threats from climate change |
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24 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:24 AM on 24 Jan 2008 Climate change will create a range of new security threats, including millions of displaced climate refugees, according to a new report from Britain's Oxford Research Group. The report forecasts a tumultuous climate-changed future by as early as 2050 where some 200 million climate refugees fleeing environmental disasters in their homelands will try to immigrate to the U.K. and other w ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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The Chopping Bloc
European Union unveils detailed plans to cut GHG emissions |
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23 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:18 AM on 23 Jan 2008 European Union leaders today unveiled detailed draft plans to reduce E.U.-wide emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The plans would require utilities to buy all of their greenhouse-gas emissions permits beginning in 2013, as opposed to the current practice of allocating nearly all of them for free, which companies can then sell at a profit. Also starting in 2013, other heavil ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, international politics, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Catch Us If You Canada
Canada announces new fuel-economy regs to match or exceed U.S. standards |
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17 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:41 AM on 17 Jan 2008 At the Montreal International Auto Show, Canada's transport minister announced the country will be setting new fuel-economy regulations that will match or exceed the U.S. fuel-economy standards signed into law in late December. The Canadian standards will be phased in starting in 2011 and by 2020, cars and light trucks sold in the Great White North will have to averag ... |
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| Topics: Canada, cars, climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Will Anyone Get Lei'd?
White House talks up its Hawaii climate-change meeting |
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16 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:43 AM on 16 Jan 2008 The White House has released a statement regarding its very own climate-change meeting for the world's biggest economies, to be held Jan. 30-31 in Hawaii. "The two-day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining economic growth, and will help to advance the negotiations under the U.N. Fr ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Not in a Bind
Mayoral climate-protecting agreement hasn't necessarily translated into action |
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11 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:44 PM on 11 Jan 2008 Mayors across the country have signed onto the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, a nonbinding initiative encouraging city leaders to meet or beat the greenhouse-gas reductions outlined in the U.S.-shunned Kyoto Protocol. So about that nonbinding part: While some city officials have taken concrete steps to reduce emissions, others haven't followed through at all. ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, local politics, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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A Perfect Tennesseean
Tennessee Senate passes resolution honoring Al Gore |
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11 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:02 AM on 11 Jan 2008 The Tennessee state Senate has passed a resolution honoring Al Gore for his efforts to curb climate change. And the crowd goes wild! "Let's be honest about it. What is a resolution but a piece of paper with flowery words on it," says House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower, adding that the resolution "has no real meaning other than whatever meaning it has to him when he hangs ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, news, politics, Tennessee (all these topics) |
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Hot Fuzz
Green groups will sue over feds' missed polar-bear deadline |
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09 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:55 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Discontented with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's announcement that it will not meet its deadline for deciding whether to list polar bears as a threatened species, the Big Three green groups -- Greenpeace, NRDC, and the Center for Biological Diversity -- have notified the government that they plan to sue. source: Associated Press From the Archives Granite State U ... |
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| Topics: climate, endangered species, Greenpeace, litigation, news, NRDC, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Granite State Update
Clinton and McCain win New Hampshire primaries, attract green voters |
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09 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:42 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Unseasonably warm weather brought out a record number of voters in New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday -- and is it mere coincidence that the majority of them voted for candidates with real plans to tackle climate change? Well, OK, probably yes. Hillary Clinton was the victor on the Democratic side; she's got a strong platform on climate and clean energy (though her main Dem ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, New Hampshire, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Tax On, Tax Off
Canadian government rejects panel's advice to implement carbon tax |
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08 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:02 PM on 08 Jan 2008 Regarding an expert panel's solicited advice that Canada strongly consider implementing a carbon tax: The Conservative government is just not that into it. From the Archives To Have and to Put on Hold. EPA launches cell-phone recycling campaign. Mission of Mars. Reclusive candy billionaire opposes drilling near his Montana land. Let Your Commission Be You ... |
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| Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Canuck the Trend
Canada should consider adopting carbon tax, says panel |
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07 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:53 PM on 07 Jan 2008 Canada should strongly consider adopting a carbon tax along with an emissions cap-and-trade system, a panel of experts advised the government today. The panel had been asked for advice on how Canada could meet its goal of reducing emissions by 45 to 65 percent of 2003 levels by 2050. Environment Minister John Baird put the kibosh on a country-wide carbon tax last year, but the province of Qu ... |
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| Topics: Canada, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Rebuttal?
California stats say state emissions-reduction plan far more effective than federal law |
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04 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:04 PM on 04 Jan 2008 When the U.S. EPA denied California the right to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, the agency reasoned that the just-passed energy bill's boost to national fuel-economy standards would be stronger emissions-reduction policy than the state's plan. California, which has sued, would beg to differ, and has released statistics refuting the EPA's claim. For ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Runaway Sue
California, 15 other states, and five nonprofits sue EPA over waiver decision |
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02 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:47 AM on 02 Jan 2008 California has made good on its promise to sue the U.S. EPA over the agency's refusal to allow the state to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, and 15 other states have made good on their promise to join in on the litigation. The swarm of states, along with five nonprofit groups, filed suit today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The presu ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The G8 Warming
Japan leads G8 in 2008, will focus on climate change |
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02 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:49 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A new year means a new country takes over leadership of the Group of Eight rich nations, and in 2008 it's Japan. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has promised to make climate change a top priority, proposing a goal for G8 countries to cut emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. And while that may seem ambitious for a nation that just last month stood with the United States in opposition to ... |
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| Topics: climate, G8, international politics, Japan, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Did You Get the Memo?
U.S. EPA directs employees to gather documents related to California decision |
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28 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:17 AM on 28 Dec 2007 The U.S. EPA has directed employees to preserve and produce all documents -- including communications with the White House -- related to its recent unpopular decision to block California from regulating greenhouse-gas emissions. The memo to employees indicates that the agency will comply with a Congressional investigation into its decision. source: Associated Pre ... |
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| Topics: climate, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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