California weighs global warming fee on industry

BusinessWeek
The money will go toward funding a regulatory bureaucracy that will oversee the law and ensure the state lowers its greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board on Thursday is expected to vote for the carbon fee, an action that comes as ...
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Possible Plan for Tariffs on Imports From China Remains Alive in ...

New York Times, United States
The Ways and Means Committee's proposed bill language (pdf) would virtually require that the president impose an import tariff on any country that fails to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions. Directed primarily at China, the United States' biggest ...
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New effort sounds hopeful note about climate change

SmartBrief, DC
"Hopenhagen" is the tagline for an effort being launched this fall by the United Nations to the issue of climate change ahead of a global summit in December in Copenhagen. The name is meant to represent the idea the public can either "cope" with global ...
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The nexus of climate change and human rights

Business Green, UK
Though climate change and human rights are important corporate responsibility issues on their own terms, they are increasingly interrelated. As our global climate destabilizes, there will be an increase in water stress, food scarcity, the prevalence ...
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Climate change bill gaining in US House-Pelosi

Forexyard, Cyprus
"We are making progress," Pelosi told reporters when asked whether previously undecided Democrats were beginning to line up behind the climate change bill. "We intend to bring it up" this week, she added. House Democratic leaders have said they hope to ...
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Hopenhagen: Twitter-Like Site to Push World Leaders at Copenhagen ...

Fast Company
The open source project, which riffs on Obama's hope campaign, aims to push world leaders to take action on climate change at December's UN meeting in Denmark. Unlike Twitter's limit of 140 characters, Hopenhagen asks site participants to use 45 ...
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USAID giving $1 million to Africa climate project

The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The US development agency said Thursday it has committed $1 million to a project that aims to help people living along southern Africa's Zambezi River cope with worsening natural disasters because of climate change.
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What Will Obama Do on Climate Change?

Washington Post Blogs, DC
I've been trying pretty hard to wrap my head around the politics of the climate change debate. No one, for instance, seems to think Waxman-Markey is, at this point, a particularly good bill, even as everyone agrees it's the best we're likely to get. ...
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Relating Climate Change to Poverty 'Vital'

Christian Post
By Aaron J. Leichman The leader of a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service groups says it is "vital" for humanitarian organizations to relate climate change to the issue of poverty and to address the factors that make ...
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Report foresees drastic climate change for BC

Calgary Herald,  Canada
The above scenario may sound like apocalyptic, but evidence suggests blights of biblical proportions may be coming, due to climate change, according to a new government-commissioned research paper, Climate Change and Health in British Columbia.
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Climate Change, Patent Pending

ISN, Switzerland
By Peter Buxbaum in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch On 12 June, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a foreign relations funding bill which included an instruction to the US envoy to the UN-sponsored climate change treaty ...
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What's New in the EU: EU examines impact of climate change on jobs

Jerusalem Post, Israel
By ARI SYRQUIN The European Commission held a meeting in Brussels this week to examine the impact of climate change on employment. Bringing together about 300 policy makers and experts, this latest edition of the Restructuring Forum addressed various ...
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UN Climate Change Summit to be Held in New York This September

AZoCleantech, Australia
On Tuesday, UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon invited world leaders to an "unprecedented" Summit on Climate Change at UN Headquarters for Heads of State and Government from every country in the world. The focus of the day-long event will be to mobilize ...
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US climate change bill vote looms

guardian.co.uk, UK
Democrats say they are confident of delivering on one of Barack Obama's defining promises tomorrow, by calling a vote in Congress on a sweeping energy and climate change bill. The bill, produced with hands-on involvement from the White House and ...
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Limits on Emissions Have Wide Support

Washington Post, United States
Tiffany Collins, 31, a part-time children's activity director at a church and a mother of four in Riverside, Calif., said she does not think greenhouse gases are causing climate change. She said she read a report on the Internet saying climate change ...
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House set to pass historic Climate Change bill

Examiner.com
House set to pass historic Climate Change bill. After weeks of compromise Obama announced the House is set to pass the Climate Change bill called Waxman-Markey. The key compromise delays regulation of farms for 5 years and gives the regulatory powers ...
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Offshore wind farms could meet a quarter of the uk's electricity needs

guardian.co.uk, UK
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) and energy regulator Ofgem also announced today they were opening the tendering process to companies to provide the ��15bn of new cabling needed to connect new wind farms. The energy and climate change ...
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Hasan discusses climate change challenges with Kofi Annan

The Daily Star, Bangladesh
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud, who is now attending a UN conference in Geneva, Wednesday met with former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and President of Timor Leste and discussed possible ways to address the climate change challenges ...
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Africa needs compensation for climate change

Reuters
A UN summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen will try to reach global agreement on how to tackle climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto protocol to curb emissions. "Africa should demand compensation at the upcoming Copenhagen negotiations," ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger backs Scottish Climate Change laws

Scottish Daily Record, UK
The Terminator star, who is now governor of California, said: "Climate change is a global problem that requires a global solution. "California has set aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets, but we need the help of the world to tackle the most ...
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Is the EPA suppressing or withholding information on global warming?

Examiner.com
If we are withholding information or suppressing evidence regarding global warming, not only is the EPA's decision to classify CO2 as a pollutant now something that will need to be revisited, it calls into question the upcoming vote on cap and trade.
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Air quality board to consider fee on emissions

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
The fee would apply to three major sources of greenhouse gas emissions: fossil fuels, heavy industry and electricity generation. The fee, in general, would be collected from fuel and electricity suppliers rather than users. For example, the fee would ...
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Rep. Earl Blumenauer: Reining in Global Warming? Not Without a New ...

AlterNet, CA
Earl Blumenauer, Huffington Post The House of Representatives is preparing to take one of its biggest environmental steps in 20 years as we move forward on legislation that will reduce global warming pollution and hold polluters accountable.
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Scotland commits to 42% greenhouse gas cut by 2020

New Energy Focus, UK
Scotland has committed itself to the most ambitious emissions cuts target in the world, as the Holyrood parliament today voted in favour of setting a "42% by 2020" target to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The 42% target, which aims to cut emissions ...
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White House Releases Report On Climate Change

U.S. News & World Report, DC
By Sid Perkins, Science News WASHINGTON - Climate change is already having detrimental effects in the United States, and those effects are probably going to get worse, a new federal study suggests. More than 3860 kilometers (2400 miles) of major ...
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Climate Change Bill Up in DC

Public News Service, CO
Denver - A landmark climate change bill could be set for a vote in the House of Representatives as soon as Friday, and Colorado sportsmen and wildlife experts say it's about more than just cleaner energy. Forrest Orswell is the state representative for ...
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Yorkshire climate change warning

Yorkshire Evening Post, UK
YORKSHIRE could see drastic changes in its temperatures and rainfall according to new research on climate change. This week sees the launch of new climate projections for the United Kingdom known as UKCP09. The projections are produced by the UK ...
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Gore to meet with House Democrats on climate change

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FOX has learned that former Vice President Al Gore will meet wth House Democrats Thursday at the Capitol to appeal to reluctant lawmakers to approve the controversial climate change bill on Friday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is rolling the dice ...
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Wanna Strengthen The Climate Bill? Get This One Passed.

Huffington Post, NY
Let Congress know that voters are watching this vote, and will reward congresspeople who had the vision to combat global warming. From a political perspective, the details of the compromise don't matter right now. It's simply a global warming bill.
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Following the House 'Draft' on Climate Change

CQPolitics.com, DC
Meanwhile, grass-roots lobbyists dispatched to the Capitol this week by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor, business and environmental groups, fanned out to lobby Democratic senators from farm and industrial states on a climate bill that ...
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Obama promotes climate-change bill in face of conflicting figures

Los Angeles Times, CA
By Paul West Reporting from Washington -- President Obama on Wednesday defended his assertion that a climate-change measure making its way through Congress would greatly reduce US dependence on foreign oil, even as government figures raised questions ...
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Wales must prepare for new world of climate change, says minister

WalesOnline, United Kingdom
ENVIRONMENT Minister Jane Davidson is today pledging ��300m to tackle climate change and has broadcast her commitment on the internet. She called on Wales to prepare for the "new world of climate change" in a recording on youtube.
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Climate Change Bill Won't Have Farm Bureau Support

Farm Futures, IL
The American Farm Bureau Federation is saying there are still too many flaws in the climate change legislation working its way to a vote on the House floor this week. Farm Bureau Regulatory Specialist Paul Schlegel says that's despite the stellar ...
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Lawmakers get lesson on global warming and the bay

Baltimore Sun, United States
"Don't let global warming dry up your hopes and scare you off," Fowler, 85, urged the lawmakers. "The eyes of the world are watching us." Arizona Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, chairman of the national parks, forests and public lands subcommittee, ...
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From Copenhagen to Hopenhagen

The New American
Starting in September, an ad campaign put together by a broad coalition of communications companies and ad agencies will blanket a good part of the commercial world, in advance of the UN's Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen in December.
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EU leaders postpone decision on climate change aid

Tehran Times, Iran
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU leaders postponed a decision on climate change aid for the poorest nations, a move slammed by environmentalists. "All countries, except the least developed, should contribute to the financing of the fight against climate change in ...
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Let He Who Has an Ear Listen: Real Effects of Climate Change

PlanetSave.com, CA
I recently wrote a post concerning a report on climate change issued by the US Government stating that "climate change has immediate and local impacts - it literally affects people in their backyards." Well, as it turns out, there's more to the story.
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African-Americans Favor Delay on Climate Change Legislation

The National Center for Public Policy Research, DC
Washington, DC - Democrats risk alienating one of their most important constituencies by advancing the Waxman-Markey climate change bill this week or any time before an economic recovery is underway, according to the non-partisan National Center for ...
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Poll Finds Support for Action on Global Warming

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With major legislation pending in the House, most Americans support government action on climate change - but with an eye on how it works and what it costs. Most people back moves on climate change, but with cost as a consideration.
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MPs back target to reduce emissions by 42%

The Herald, UK
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the climate change legislation was a good thing, and a victory for campaign groups. "Without this overwhelming pressure from outside parliament, we would not have made the progress that we've made, as we've seen this bill ...
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Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Climate Change Vote

Daily Kos, CA
There's a simple reason polluting and irresponsible corporations support the Waxman-Markey bill: It showers them with hundreds of billions of dollars, but doesn't require them to reduce pollution fast enough to avoid devastating climate change ...
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Climate change Bills sent to bottom of list

The Canberra Times, Australia
The delay comes after what Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said was a day ''debating what to debate'' on Monday, and could also deny the Government a double-dissolution trigger until at least December. Senator Wong would not comment on whether she ...
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There is only one moral, ethical approach to climate change

On Line opinion, Australia
By Fiona Armstrong - posted Thursday, 25 June 2009 The Green Paper released by the Victorian Government this month as the first step towards their Climate Change Bill fails Victorians. Most alarmingly, it fails to accept Victoria's share of the ...
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Climate Change Accord On Horizon in 'Hopenhagen'

Politics Daily, DC
After getting some attention during President Obama's press conference on Tuesday, climate change legislation that would cut greenhouse emissions 17 percent by 2020 looks likely to pass the House by the end of the week. But climate change plans for ...
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Pelosi pushes to pass climate-change bill this week

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Frank Davies WASHINGTON - With last-minute deals and some old-fashioned political muscle, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing hard to get a comprehensive energy and climate change bill through the House by the end of the week. To get the bill passed, ...
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Disruption in climate must be addressed

The Reporter, WI
As you are aware, the White House recently released a major new report on global warming titled "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." This report has substantial backing from scientists; it is based on 500 different scientific reports.
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Farm Belt wins US climate bill points: lawmaker

Reuters
A proposed EPA regulation, which would make US ethanol makers responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from conversion of forests and grasslands overseas to cropland, would be sidetracked for five years during a study of the so-called indirect land use ...
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Greenhouse gas rules will cost us, but how much?

Ely Daily Times, NV
By RUDY HERNDON If Congress passes legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions, you should be prepared to pay more for the energy you use. How much more? It just depends on who you ask. The estimates vary widely: the US Environmental Protection Agency ...
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Air Board Weighs Carbon Fee For Producers

KCRA.com, CA
California air regulators on Thursday will consider leveling the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other industries as a way to pay for the state's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law. The move comes at a time of ...
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US Report provides assessment of national, regional impacts of ...

Envirodesk, Belgium
Global warming is already occurring in the United States and the choices Americans make today will determine the severity of its impact in the future, according to a new report released today. Researchers representing 13 US government science agencies, ...
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Vote on climate bill set for Friday as legislation progresses

SmartBrief, DC
A vote on the complex climate change bill currently moving through the House of Representatives has reportedly been scheduled for Friday. While some say that support for the bill is growing, Republicans criticize the legislation, saying it would ...
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Experts: Climate change will harm bay

Annapolis Capital, MD
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer Action is needed to protect the Chesapeake Bay's shorelines and wildlife from climate change, a panel of experts told congressmen yesterday. Four congressmen showed up to a "field hearing" at the waterfront Smithsonian ...
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Climate Change: Preparing a New Protocol

Watching the Watchers.org
The Copenhagen Conference will number 15 of the UNFCCC meetings -the Contracting Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, signed in Rio de Janeiro during the Earth Summit in June 1992. And it is the result of the ...
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Global Warming: Adapting policy to climate change

Examiner.com
Six months prior the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, it is clear that government intends to make an effort to adapt to climate change and reduce the impact of global warming. The effort is encouraging and progressive in ideals, ...
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Farmers in Vermont Change Cow Nutrition, Cut Methane Gas Emissions

ShortNews.com, Germany
The dairy industry is responsible for 2% of US greenhouse gas production. The burps from cows are mostly to blame. The farmers are working with Stonyfield, on their Greener Cow Project. Traditionally, dairy cows are fed corn or soy feed...
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Rich should compensate Africa for global warming: Ethiopian PM

AFP
"There are some theories that the droughts of the 90s might have been influenced by a phenomenon of global warming caused by pollution in northern countries," added Meles. He said he would defend that position at next month's G8 summit in Italy and ...
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EXCLUSIVE-US resists EU climate target for G8 summit

Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, June 23 (Reuters) - The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialised nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft ...
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California weighs global warming fees on producers

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
If approved, the fee would raise $51.2 million annually for the next three years to fund the bureaucracy needed to implement California's 2006 global warming law. The total would drop to $36.2 million by the fifth year. The fee would cost the average ...
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US, Canada must do more in climate fight -France

Reuters
The panel says such cuts are needed to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change, such as melting ice sheets, thawing permafrost and rising sea levels. "It is therefore necessary for Canada and the US to take on commitments which are at least ...
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Scottish parliament agrees tougher 42% target to cut emissions

guardian.co.uk, UK
In a rare show of unity, all political parties at Holyrood unanimously agreed to fix the target as part of a radical climate change bill which also requires the Scottish government to set legally binding annual cuts in emissions from 2012.
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Report on climate change is eye-opening

Naples Daily News, FL
When one approach fails, another is usually found and recently, a new, federally requested study was released, titled, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." The full report is just under 200 pages and is broken down into many ...
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House Dems Improve Climate Bill's Chances for Floor Win With Deal ...

New York Times, United States
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN, ClimateWire House Democrats resolved the last major sticking points between farm state members and sponsors of the comprehensive global warming and energy bill last night, clearing the way for a historic floor vote as early as ...
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Global Warming “Scientist”, NASA's James Hansen Arrested ...

KXMC, ND
He's one of the guys that started the global warming fraud. He's proposed that Obama should use global warming to redistribute wealth. He's said we should arrest oil company executives, not because of what they do, but because they spoke their mind ...
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Climate bill could reward farmers

Reuters
--A proposed EPA regulation, which would make US ethanol makers responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from conversion of forests and grasslands overseas to cropland, would be sidetracked for five years during a study of the so-called indirect land ...
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African Americans Cool on Global Warming, Survey Shows

CNSNews.com, VA
When asked if federal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could increase unemployment, 38 percent of survey respondents said they felt African Americans would proportionately lose more jobs. -- Only 15 percent of survey respondents said they ...
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Climate change a danger to North Carolina

The Sanford Herald, NC
The recently released government science report entitled "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States," presents a clear picture of global warming's threats to North Carolina. Declining crops, degradation of habitats and increased drought are ...
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Complex Climate Bill May Freeze Your Web Browser

LiveScience.com, NY
The bill is sweeping in its change, ambitious in its scope, and therefore an easy target for loud and obfuscating arguments that easily distract from the goal: to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and embrace alternative energies.
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European climate change reports launched in Brussels

EurekAlert (press release), DC
Two new reports examining climate change adaptation and policy making across Europe will be launched today in Brussels in the presence of Peter Gammeltoft, Head of Unit 'Protection of Water & Marine Environment' at the European Commission.
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Vote on historic climate and energy bill set for Friday

Examiner.com
Inslee has been a force for environmental issues for many years and recently authored a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, signed by dozens of other representatives, to help protect polar bears. Jean Williams is an Examiner from Seattle.
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Dow to cut Gazprom's greenhouse gases

tce today, UK
by Claudia Flavell-While DOW Chemical has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom to develop and implement greenhouse gas reduction programmes at Gazprom sites around the world. The agreement will see the two ...
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Green Dems make more concessions to move global warming bill

Washington Examiner, DC
House Democrats who were struggling to get consensus within their own party on a massive global warming bill, say they are so close to an agreement that a vote on the legislation may come as early as Friday. Democrats amended their proposal to quell ...
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Guest column: Put cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, but skip ...

DesMoinesRegister.com, IA
MidAmerican supports sections of the bill that seek to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. However, the trading component is seriously flawed and will do nothing more than impose unfair and significant costs on customers. The bill could end up penalizing ...
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Sarkozy pledges to work for global deal on climate change

AFP
PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged Tuesday to work toward reaching a global deal on climate change at the Copenhagen conference in December. Sarkozy told Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, president of the Nobel prize-winning UN panel of ...
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Climate Scientist James Hansen Arrested in Mountaintop Removal Protest

Environment News Service
But this is an approach to coal that defeats the purpose of the administration's larger efforts to fight climate change, a sad political bargain that will never get us the change we need on mountaintop removal, coal or the climate.
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Global warming: Humans are to blame

Merinews, India
OVER THE last five years, 600 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sifted through thousands of studies about global warming published in forums ranging from scientific journals to industry publications and distilled the world's ...
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Farm-state compromise opens way for passage of global warming bill

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
The House is expected to take up the legislation on Friday, the first time the chamber will vote on a bill that would impose nationwide limits on the gases blamed for global warming emitted from power plants, factories and automobiles.
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Newest US House Climate Bill Includes Public-Transit Funds

Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The newest version of climate-change legislation that heads to the floor of the US House of Representatives Friday includes benefits aimed at spurring investment in public transportation. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., ...
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Dow Chemical and Gazprom to work on greenhouse gas reduction projects

Mother Nature Network, GA
By Stephanie Rogers REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES: A Dow Chemical Company plant is seen in Torrance, Calif. (Photo: David mcnew/Getty Images) Two major companies, Dow Chemical and Russia's Gazprom Marketing and Trading Ltd, have announced that they will ...
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Climate scientist Hansen agrees to debate Massey's Blankenship

Charleston Gazette, WV
"Thanks for your offer to publicly discuss climate change, human-made global warming and its implications for the coal industry in general and mountaintop removal in particular," Hansen wrote in an e-mail to Blankenship.
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Obama urges fast work on climate-change bill

Houston Chronicle, United States
During his fourth news conference since taking office, the president described the climate change measure as "extraordinarily important for our country. ... I urge members of the House to come together and pass it." Obama's appeal came as House Speaker ...
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Ban invites world leaders to 'unprecedented' UN climate change summit

UN News Centre
23 June 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today extended an invitation to heads of State and government to attend an "unprecedented" global summit at the United Nations to spur action towards reaching an ambitious climate change pact later this year ...
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Nancy Pelosi to bring climate change bill to floor

Politico, DC
Photo: AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will roll the dice on a top priority this week, bringing a contentious climate change bill to the floor despite strong misgivings from her rank-and-file and an outspoken chairman who remains a major impediment.
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Todd Stern rejects calls for 40% cut in US emissions

guardian.co.uk, UK
Stern had earlier showered praise on the flagship US climate change bill expected to be debated by Congress this week calling it "an enormously ambitious proposal for the United States." The bill calls for a 17% reduction in US emissions from 2005 ...
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Global warming bogus: Fielding

Courier Mail, Australia
There has never been a "Global Warming" or "Climate Change", it is just climate...Get over it! So.. it's okay for Family First to lobby the government to outlaw nude girls on our computers? Yet distroying this planet is okay? ARE U KIDDING!!
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Mexico open to carbon credits at climate talks

Forbes, NY
... 06.23.09, 06:24 PM EDT JIUTEPEC, Mexico -- Mexico said Tuesday it is open to including a link to the existing carbon-credit market in the framework of a new global "green" financing fund that is gaining traction as a response to climate change.
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Annan hopeful about Copenhagen climate-change talks

SmartBrief, DC
... to create a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said. Annan addressed the Global Humanitarian Forum, a two-day meeting of government officials, climate-change experts and UN agency heads. AlertNet.org (06/23)
Politicians must heed public on climate: Kofi Annan AFP
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Tackling Climate Change by Saving Forests

Center For American Progress, DC
These efforts would, most importantly, produce a national baseline against which to measure reductions in deforestation and a national plan to help these countries achieve their forest conservation and climate protection goals.
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UN, ad firms join to brand climate change

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(CNN) -- To guard against public indifference to climate change the United Nations has enlisted a coalition of the world's leading advertising agencies. The world in their hands: New campaign aims to empower public. Leading up to the UN Climate Change ...
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Report: hfcs could play a bigger role in global warming

SmartBrief, DC
Hydrofluorocarbons could play a major role in climate change by 2050, possibly causing global-warming effects of between 28% and 45% of those caused by carbon dioxide emissions, according to Dutch and US-based scientists. Efforts are under way to find ...
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MSPs poised to pass climate laws

BBC News, UK
Landmark legislation to help Scotland tackle the threat of climate change is expected to be passed by MSPs later. Ministers have set a target for a 42% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, rising to 80% by 2050. The SNP has claimed its climate ...
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Australian senator rejects climate change evidence

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By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, June 24 (Reuters) - A senator crucial to Australia's plans for carbon trading said on Wednesday he did not believe climate change was real, delivering what could be a fatal blow to government plans to slash industrial gas ...
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Letter: Cap and trade workable to reduce greenhouse gases (June 22)

Corvallis Gazette Times, OR
We need these economic incentives because, in the current political climate, neither regulations nor voluntary standards will be sufficient to accomplish the needed reductions in greenhouse gases over the next 40 years. In an ideal world, ...
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Earth's in the emergency room

MiamiHerald.com, FL
That's a lot like what's happening with global warming. Unless you're a scientist studying atmospheric chemistry, or you're paying very close attention to the global warming debate, the Earth doesn't appear to be in immediate danger.
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Losing Momentum, Nancy Pelosi Bringing Global Warming Bill to ...

KXMC, ND
So the global warming bill that will double everyone's energy bill is tied up in committee. Nancy Pants is trying to force their hand by bringing it to the floor. This seems to me to be a strategic mistake. This global warming thing is viewed very ...
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Carrots, Sticks and Maybe a Raw-Meat Subtext

CQPolitics.com, DC
By Alan K. Ota, CQ Staff House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been courting centrist Republican votes for the House global warming bill but her approach at a recent meeting raised a few questions: do they also have targets on their backs for 2010 if they ...
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Global warming isn't real, says Fielding

Brisbane Times, Australia
Family First senator Steve Fielding has made up his mind on global warming - there's not enough evidence that it's real. After talks with the government and top scientists, Senator Fielding, who holds a crucial Senate vote, has released a document ...
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Democrats kowtow to farmers on global warming bill

Kansas City Star, MO
The EPA deserves to have that power so it can determine whether ethanol is hurting, rather than helping, this nation's attempt to combat global warming. On Tuesday President Barack Obama urged Congress to move ahead with a strong bill to cut emissions ...
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A strong interest in helping to solve the climate crisis

Jakarta Post, Indonesia
The latest round of negotiations on a new global climate change agreement that recently concluded in Bonn showed promising signs that governments everywhere realize the urgency of cooperative action to address this global challenge.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: UN Launches "Seal the Deal" Campaign

IPS, Italy
By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 (IPS) - Growing US support for UN initiatives is raising hopes among those who want to see the world community take immediate and concrete action to tackle climate change, although their optimism is also tinged ...
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House Likely To Vote On Key Climate Change Bill This Week

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By Brian Beutler - June 23, 2009, 9:52AM After seeing it through a number of inter- and intraparty obstacles, House leaders will soon bring the Waxman-Markey climate change bill up for a vote--perhaps as early as Friday. "There are some issues still ...
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World faces risk of abrupt climate change: study

Tehran Times, Iran
The report said greenhouse gas emissions and other climate indicators are at or near the upper boundaries forecast by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose 2007 report has been the scientific benchmark for the troubled UN talks ...
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US nixes 40 percent cuts at climate change talks

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Carbon dioxide, produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, is the leading manmade greenhouse gas that scientists have linked to global warming. "That's a very important piece of the overall picture for the United States," Stern said.
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United Nations launches Hopenhagen climate change campaign

Marketing, UK
Ads will direct consumers to a new website, hopenhagen.org, where visitors can learn about climate change issues, express their opinions on climate change and send messages to the delegates attending the conference. A wider ad campaign will roll out in ...
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Global warming will just have to wait

Edmonton Journal, Canada
And I'm not talking about the global warming deniers. James Lovelock is a British scientist who fears we have put off the fight against global warming too long. That's the message in his latest book that he's now on tour promoting: The Vanishing Face ...
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House Dems reach global warming bill deal

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WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- US House Democrats said Tuesday evening they have ironed out differences on legislation to fight global warming, setting the table for a Friday vote. "We have an agreement, and we're moving forward on Friday," House Energy ...
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Dem leaders confident, but no climate change deal

The Hill, DC
By Jared Allen Democratic leaders are expressing confidence they can patch together enough of an agreement to pass climate change legislation on the floor by Friday. But a deal has not been finalized. Democrats - who are still courting centrist ...
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Maine Health Care Pros Push for Climate Change Legislation

The Exception Magazine, ME
"Increased spread of vector-borne diseases, decreased access to food, and increased likelihood of armed conflict are all consequences of climate change that recent public health research indicates are possible or likely," says Stephanie Lash, MD, ...
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UN Promotes Global Climate Change Ad Campaign

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by Erik Sass, 3 minutes ago As the world gears up for a global summit on climate change set to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, the United Nations will be raising awareness about the issue and encouraging ordinary people to participate ...
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Deal sends global warming bill to House floor

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The House is expected to take up the legislation on Friday, the first time the chamber will vote on a bill that would impose nationwide limits on the gases blamed for global warming emitted from power plants, factories and automobiles.
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US Climate Legislation Won't Regulate Cow Burps

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By Jonathan Bardelline - Jonathan Bardelline Burps from cows and other farm animals won't be regulated under proposed greenhouse gas legislation being looked at by the US Congress. Although the Environmental Protection Agency wasn't planning to ...
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Climate Bill Set for Vote In the House on Friday

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had stalled last week because of opposition from Farm Belt Democrats concerned their states will face heavier costs under the proposed law to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. Discussions were still continuing Tuesday. Josh Syrjamaki, chief of staff for ...
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United Nations, New York City announce week of climate change action

Xinhua, China
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Beneath the trees on a New York City sidewalk, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that the City will host a week of climate change-related activities during the United ...
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Obama urges Congress to move swiftly on climate change bill

guardian.co.uk, UK
Barack Obama put his presidential prestige on the line to urge Congress to pass climate change legislation today, using the high visibility of a White House press conference to take on widespread concerns about the costs of moving to cleaner sources of ...
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Where's the world's plan of action against climate change?

guardian.co.uk, UK
Today, international action on climate change is urgent and essential. Indeed, there can no longer be any debate about the need to act, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), of which I am chairman, has established climate change ...
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