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Smokin', Joe
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07 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Smokin', Joe Despite inevitable resistance from the Bush administration and fellow Congress members, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) plan to unveil a proposal this week that would force all U.S. industries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The legislation would require all industries to limit their emissions to 2000 levels by 2010 and 1990 levels by 2016. McCain has scheduled a ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, climate, politics (all these topics) |
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Oh, Yeah, Canada
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11 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh, Yeah, Canada Canada's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol yesterday, concluding months of rancorous debate and paving the way for a concerted international effort to curb emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. A triumphant Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who staked a fair bit of political capital on Kyoto, will sign Canada's official ratification by the end of the year. Though ... |
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| Topics: Canada, climate, politics (all these topics) |
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Credit Where Credit Is Due
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06 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Credit Where Credit Is Due The Kyoto Protocol on climate change has not yet gone into effect, but the first sale of greenhouse gas credits negotiated within the treaty's proposed framework is officially a done deal. Slovakia (of all places) has sold emissions credits equivalent to 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to a Japanese trading house, which declined to ... |
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| Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, Japan, politics, Slovakia, United States (all these topics) |
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Detroit Rock City
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14 Nov 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Detroit Rock City Detroit automakers sure aren't complaining about the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. They anticipate having a close ally in the incoming chair of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is known for his criticism of clean air regulations and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He once referred ... |
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| Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, James Inhofe, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Study Buddies
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13 Nov 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Study Buddies Ignoring the overwhelming consensus among scientists worldwide, the Bush administration this week unveiled a proposal that would have the U.S. embark on another years-long study to assess whether humans are causing the globe to warm. Industry officials and other climate skeptics lauded the research plan. But many climate scientists said it would simply reopen issues that most experts consider resolved. Others said more resea ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics (all these topics) |
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A Dehli-cate Balance
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23 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| A Dehli-cate Balance Delegates from around the world are meeting in New Delhi, India, today for the latest round of international talks on climate change. In part because the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions -- the United States -- has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the meeting is focusing on ways to adapt to climate change rather than on ways to curb it. Delegates will discuss "minimizing vul ... |
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| Topics: climate, India, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Warm Globally, Don't Warn Locally
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16 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Warm Globally, Don't Warn Locally For the first time since 1995, the U.S. EPA's annual report on air pollution trends, released earlier this month, has no section on global warming. The EPA, which deleted the chapter with White House approval, said the decision was made because the agency had released two other reports on global warming earlier in the year and because this particular report was meant to discuss only pollu ... |
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| Topics: climate, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Mr. Green Jean
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03 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Mr. Green Jean One North American leader attending the summit in Johannesburg -- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- took significant steps toward establishing his green legacy at home yesterday by unveiling a major expansion of the national parks system and promising to ratify the Kyoto Protocol by the end of the year. His plan to create 10 new parks and five marine conservation areas drew near-uni ... |
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| Topics: Canada, climate, energy, national parks, politics (all these topics) |
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Week Links
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29 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Week Links The first week of the World Summit on Sustainable Development has seen a mix of surprising twists and predictable problems. On the surprising end: Two very different organizations, Greenpeace International and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, have agreed to join forces to combat climate change. The two groups plan to work together to convince governments to create an intern ... |
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| Topics: climate, Greenpeace, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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No Island Is an Island
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16 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| No Island Is an Island Climate change was the leading concern at the annual Pacific Island Forum this week, where leaders of small island nations chastised the United States for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The islands have an unusually vested interest in the protocol because they face a high risk of being swallowed up by seas swollen from melting ice caps a ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, Pacific Islands, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The White House Effect
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Suzy Becker |
31 Jul 2002 |
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| Topics: climate, politics (all these topics) |
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The Big-Name Game
Beltway green groups need to turn up the heat |
Ross Gelbspan |
31 Jul 2002 |
Soapbox |
| Inside the Beltway, the climate movement is comatose. During the Clinton-Gore years, while the U.S. dragged its feet in international climate negotiations, the major national environmental groups allowed themselves to be used by the administration. Seduced by the former vice president's rhetoric, the groups watched their issue disappear from the political arena when Al Gore sacrificed his convictions ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Kyoto, U.S.A.
Tackling climate change at the local level |
Katherine Ellison |
31 Jul 2002 |
Main Dish |
| Sister Evelyn Mattern had two goals in mind as she stood vigil recently with a Protestant colleague in a gas mask, singing, "This Air is My Air!" at the North Carolina statehouse. Her short-term aim was to lend support to stricter regulations for the state's coal-fired power plants. Yet she also had a loftier, long-range objective, one increasingly shared by a wide array of activists: to transf ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kyoto Protocol, local politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Bush Attacked on Climate Change
Read the letter sent by 11 state attorneys general |
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17 Jul 2002 |
Muckraker |
| On July 17, 2002, 11 state attorneys general (all of them Democrats) sent the following letter to President Bush, criticizing him for failing to impose strong federal measures to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and control global warming. (You may also download a PDF copy of the letter by clicking here.) The Honorable George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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I'll Have to Speak With My Attorney
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17 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| I'll Have to Speak With My Attorney In a letter being sent today to President Bush, 11 state attorneys general criticize the president for his failure to impose strong federal measures to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and control global warming. In addition to condemning the "regulatory void" created by the absence of federal action, the letter contends that environmental policies proposed by the Bu ... |
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| Topics: climate, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Classless Dismissal
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05 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Classless Dismissal Seeking a comfortable position between environmentalists on the one hand and industry buddies on the other, President Bush let his administration release a report last week acknowledging for the first time that human-caused climate change would substantially change the U.S. environment -- but then distanced himself from the report's conclusions during a press conference yesterday. "I read the repor ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Truth Without Consequences
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03 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Truth Without Consequences For the first time, the Bush administration has acknowledged, in a report to the U.N., that climate change is most likely caused by human activity and will have far-reaching effects on the American environment. Although the report marks a significant shift in the administration's rhetoric -- Bushies had heretofore maintained the need for more research before drawing conclusions about climate change -- it is unli ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics (all these topics) |
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Corn Huskers Motion
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24 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Corn Huskers Motion By a vote of 68 to 31, the Senate yesterday killed an attempt to remove a measure in the Democratic energy bill requiring U.S. refiners to triple their use of ethanol by 2012. The measure would increase nationwide use of the corn-based fuel additive from about 1.7 billion gallons this year to 5 billion gallons by 2012. That's good news for corn-growing farmers; many environmentalists also back the m ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, politics (all these topics) |
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I'll Stop the World from Melting with You
It's time for the U.S. government to get serious about global warming |
Ben Cohen |
19 Apr 2002 |
Soapbox |
| Take it from an ice cream guy: If it's melted, it's ruined. That's why we have to stop global warming now. We've only got one atmosphere; we can't wait to take action until the damage is done and air pollution has forever changed our planet's delicate environmental balance. Earth Day reminds us that if we want to preserve our world for our kids and all the gene ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics (all these topics) |
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Eight Bawl
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15 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Eight Bawl Environment ministers from the Group of Eight -- the world's industrialized powers -- met over the weekend for a round of talks in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held later this year in Johannesburg, South Africa. Although the issue of climate change was not on the agenda (much to the dismay of some environmental organizations), yesterday's session was dominated by discus ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, G8, politics (all these topics) |
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Dirty Duncing
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05 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Dirty Duncing The majority of the nation's dirtiest power plants are getting even dirtier, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The report was based on U.S. EPA data on smog, soot, and global warming emissions from power plants from 1995 to 2000. It found that greenhouse gas emissions increased 8 percent, with a total of 175 million tons of carbo ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, ozone, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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My Dear Watson
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03 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| My Dear Watson Responding to pressure from the energy industry, the Bush administration is seeking to remove the U.S scientist who heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Robert Watson, chief scientist at the World Bank, has been the unpaid chair of the IPCC for nearly six years. In that capacity, he has been outspoken in his belief that human activity is contributing to global warming and must be altered to aver ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Voluntary Complicity
Bush's global warming plan is just the tip of the iceberg |
Chris Colin |
14 Mar 2002 |
Soapbox |
| MEMO TO: All National Petroleum Unlimited employees FROM: Jack Morris, CEO Has this CEO gone soft, or was there something sweet -- nay, touching -- in the details of President Bush's new emissions plan? Rather than demand that we do our part to slow the pace of global warming, he's simply letting us volunteer! Friends, this man trusts us, and America's coal and oil industry must rise t ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics (all these topics) |
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Joltin' Joe
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21 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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A Year of Living Dangerously
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12 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: climate, education, politics (all these topics) |
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