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The Gore-y Details Al Gore details plan for exclusively carbon-free electricity in U.S. by 2018		17 Jul 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Is It Graduation Yet? Bush admin gets senior-itis, says it won't decide on emissions before term ends		11 Jul 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dally Affirmation Appeals court won't force EPA to speed up CO2 decision		27 Jun 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Deep Space Excoriation NASA internal investigation finds press-office climate distortion		03 Jun 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Mark(et)ed for Death Three Wall Street banks announce funding restrictions for new coal power plants		04 Feb 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: business, climate, coal, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Under pressure E.U. considers pollution charges on imports from U.S. and other climate scofflaws	Patrick Mazza	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
U.S. failure to enact limits on global warming emissions could cost American companies that export to the European Union. E.U. President Jose Manuel Barroso on Sunday said the European Commission is considering a charge on importers from nations without carbon limits. Companies from those countries may be required to buy carbon emissions allowances on exports into the E.U. This is intended to level the playing field with European companies who are already part ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, European Union, international politics, politics, state politics, United States (all these topics)

Papua ooh mau mau The real story behind the world's favorite scolding of the U.S.	David Roberts	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Last month, Kevin Conrad became somewhat famous representing Papua New Guinea at the Bali climate talks. Confronted yet again with U.S. intransigence, Conrad said: I would ask the United States, we ask for your leadership. But if for some reason you're not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way. The way the story's been told, Conrad's bold moral cry shattered the wall of U.S. indifference and broke the logjam. Naturally, the realit ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, politics, United States (all these topics)

You first! No, you first! China and the U.S. are both obliged to act on climate change, quick-like	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Apparently, based on some recent threads on this site, there's some dispute about the role China plays in the Great International Climate Change Debate. I'm absolutely snowed under right now, but I want to make two quick points: It is indisputable that the U.S., and developed countries generally, bear a vastly larger share of the responsibility for climate change than China, and developing countries generally. This is true whatever perspective you take: physical respo ...
Topics: politics, greenhouse-gas emissions, China, United States, climate equity, climate, international politics, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Roadblock at Bali Climate Conference? Not U.S.! The U.S. sits on the sidelines rather than leading the charge in a war on climate change	Anna Fahey	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Americans have a history of joining together in times of crisis. But the terminology of war is the most familiar rallying cry. So it's understandable that when he's talking about global warming, John Edwards often implores Americans to be 'patriotic about something other than war.' And when Al Gore accepted his Nobel Prize this week, he said, 'We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobili ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics, United States (all these topics)

Al Gore is so wrong There is no comparison between Chinese and American GHG emissions	Eric de Place	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's Nobel Prize speech, as reported by the NY Times: ... he singled out the United States and China -- the world's largest emitters of carbon dioxide -- for failing to meet their obligations in mitigating emissions. They should 'stop using each other's behavior as an excuse for stalemate,' he said. Much as I love him, Gore's sentiment here is far too generous to the good ol' U.S. of A. There is simply no fair comparison with China. We're not e ...
Topics: Al Gore, China, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics, United States (all these topics)

Don't Say We Didn't Warner You Senate Environment Committee approves Lieberman-Warner climate bill		06 Dec 2007	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, legislation, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

What will we look like in 2050? America's climate and energy future	Joseph Romm	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. A few weeks ago, one of the presidential candidates' advisors challenged a group of climate leaders to describe America's future. His challenge triggered a flurry of e-mails as we attempted to articulate a vision. We talked about carbon caps and price signals and new investments in R&D. That's fine, the advisor responded, but what it the v ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Problem solved? U.S. emissions go down!	Andrew Dessler	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The White House issued a press release yesterday about the report (PDF) by the Energy Information Administration that U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for 2006 were 1.5 percent below the 2005 level. Here is the text of the press release: STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT I was pleased to receive the Energy Information Administration's final report today, which includes U.S. greenhouse gas emissions for 2006. The final report shows that emissions declined 1.5 percent from ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, United States (all these topics)

Dilutions of Grandeur White House accused of watering down CDC testimony on climate change		24 Oct 2007	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, White House (all these topics)

D.C. Comical Bush admin talks up voluntary actions with strong words at D.C. climate summit		28 Sep 2007	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Blair on political will and economic strength Tony Blair downplays the importance of political will in the U.S.	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Tony Blair, oddly, just downplayed the importance of political will in the United States, and then, in an aside, said he thinks 'the political will is there.' I think he's been talking to George Bush too much. Building American political will is the key challenge facing us if we want to see a global mitigation regime emerge. Still, the topic of the plenary is 'Economic Growth in the Face of Resource Scarcity and Climate Change,' and on that point, Blair pointed ...
Topics: climate, international politics, Norway, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton on efficiency Bill Clinton calls for countries to follow Japan's lead	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton introduced the morning plenary today by, once again, honoring the companies and people who've committed to the Clinton Global Initiative to take steps to increase energy efficiency and decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. But he touted one dubious statistic: If China, India, and the United States were to become as efficient as Japan, that would decrease global greenhouse-gas output by 20 percent. That statistic is based on this study by the McKinsey Inst ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, China, climate, India, international politics, Japan, politics, United States (all these topics)

You Really Can't Have Too Many Meetings U.S. will host climate meeting of world's largest emitters		26 Sep 2007	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

My My, Is It 2007 Already? Judge requires feds to submit climate research plan, impact assessment		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

One more truth about China and climate change It's about more than money	Christina Larson	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
It's official. China is now the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases. Having spent much of this spring reporting in China, I'd like to second just about everything David said yesterday on the topic. But I have one ginormous point to add. It's not just money that's needed. Yes, it'd be a good thing if Hill folks stopped bashing technology-exchange programs as lending an 'unfair competitive advantage.' And yes, let's stop painting China as the international ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, United States (all these topics)

Wider, but still paper thin Reality checking the polls	Ken Ward	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Public opinion polls show a significant increase in the number of Americans who support strong climate action. Deeper digging shows this support is superficial, too thin to drive the rapid sociopolitical change now required. For the first time, however, a small, but measurable number of Americans -- probably no more than 3% -- identify climate change as the greatest threat. U.S. environmentalists' carefully buffered climate narrative, calculated to not frighten the m ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

The responsibility era	David Roberts	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The editors of The New Republic make a simple point that can't be made often enough: The conservative notion that reducing GHG emissions in the U.S. is pointless unless China and India do the same is a moral grotesquery. We created the problem. Ethically and geopolitically, we are responsible for leading the way to a solution. Call it "the responsibility era."
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part III This time, it's personal	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Continued from parts I and II.) Last but not least (actually, what quite literally hits closest to home!): North America Moderate climate change in the early decades of the century is projected to increase aggregate yields of rain-fed agriculture by 5-20 percent, but with important variability among regions. Warming in Western mountains is projected to cause decreased snowpack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for ove ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, 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)

No Talk and No Action Why the Montreal climate summit was too painful to watch	Bill McKibben	12 Dec 2005	Soapbox
I've been to climate meetings in locales that stretch from Kyoto to The Hague, Mexico City to the Maldives. It would have been awfully easy to get in the old hybrid and drive two hours north to Montreal for the big climate-change confab that wrapped up this weekend -- if nothing else, it's a city I love deeply. But I couldn't bring myself to do it in the end. I knew it was going to be too ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Canada, climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

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