Law to curb Oregon's greenhouse gas emissions passes House

kgw.com, OR
The Oregon House on Friday passed a piece of the governor's global warming legislative package designed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks over the next decade through new standards for fuel, tires and replacement parts.
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Polar Explorer Goes For New Arctic Record

Sky News, UK
His expeditions highlight the peril of climate change. "The expedition is not about breaking records, however, nor is it just an extreme physical challenge," he said. "Aside from being an adventure that all three of us want to do first and foremost, ...
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Former coal mine aids Arctic climate research

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NY-AALESUND, Norway (AFP) - Out of place in the snowy, polar landscape, the train that once hauled coal out of the mountain serves as a reminder to scientists at the Ny-Aalesund Arctic research station of the origin of the planet's woes.
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The Global Warming Debates Aren't Over. (Part 5 in a 10-part series)

Heritage.org, DC
When it comes global warming, two debates are currently taking place. At the forefront is the political debate. Current legislation introduced by House Democrats Ed Markey and Henry Waxman includes a cap-and-trade plan to attempt to reduce carbon ...
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Study: Cap and Trade Won't Hurt US Manufacturing

The Exception Magazine, ME
The bottom line is that fear of competitive harm should not stand as an obstacle to strong climate policy." The analysis is meant to help guide the Waxman-Markey climate change bill which is under debate in Congress. The Pew researchers have ...
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Montana signs deal on cross-border climate project

Forbes, NY
Gasification - already in use commercially at a plant in Beulah, North Dakota - makes it far simpler to capture carbon dioxide because the greenhouse gas is separated from other gases early in the industrial process. But building new, cleaner plants ...
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Climate Change and India

Korea Times, South Korea
By Seema Sengupta KOLKATA �������� The harmful effect of climate change is looming large over India, a predominantly agriculturally driven country. As the nation reels under the vagary of extreme temperature and a heat wave, the surface air temperature is ...
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Cap-and-Trade Won't Cause Mass Manufacturing Migration

Reuters
By climatebiz Staff As the US House Energy and Commerce Committee wrestles over the draft climate change legislation proposed by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a new study has been released suggesting the feared economic ...
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Waxman buys time with pledge to produce climate bill next week

New York Times, United States
They don't frankly ask me what Congress is going to do to fix climate change." Davis, who is running for governor in 2010, said he could count on about 40 to 50 House Democrats who would vote against the climate proposal despite President Obama's ...
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Democrats may delay climate-change bill to focus on health care

SmartBrief, DC
Democrats in the US House of Representatives may set aside a controversial climate-change bill to focus on an initiative for health care reform, according to a senior House Republican. "There's growing pressure in the Democratic caucus to de-emphasize ...
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The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Reuters
For the most part, the climate competitiveness debate has proceeded in the absence of hard data. With this report, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change hopes to contribute to a firmer analytical understanding of the potential for competitiveness ...
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BeGreen Provides New Way to Look at Climate Change with First-Of ...

Emediawire (press release), WA
"The Carbon Impact Explorer gives people a new way to look at climate change," said Taddune. "With today's technology, we've only scratched the surface of what's possible in helping to bring to life efforts to reduce the negative environmental impact ...
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How to Green Your Cows' Gas

Red, Green, and Blue, CA
Methane is 23 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, so finding a way to reduce those noxious emissions is crucial. The study used a complicated set of equations that modeled many different diets to find the most methane-efficient ...
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Ken Salazar may not throw polar bears a lifeline as clock ticks down

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The problem is, climate change is responsible for the increased rate of polar ice caps melting and crumbling into the sea. This activity is endangering the polar bear's habitat and its ability to find food. Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act: ...
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Christians Unsure About Climate Change's Causes, but They Back ...

U.S. News & World Report, DC
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country Can evangelicals and Roman Catholics be skeptical of human-created climate change but still want to combat global warming? Sure. Yesterday, I wrote that a new poll showing majority evangelical and Catholic support for ...
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Bioelectricity gives better mileage than ethanol: study

CBC.ca, Canada
"What we found is that if you burn this biomass to make electricity to power electric vehicles, you can get a lot more transportation and a lot more greenhouse gas offsets than if you converted it into ethanol," said researcher J. Elliot Campbell in a ...
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Bowman Global Change Says Public Engagement Critical to Solving ...

Exhibitor Online, MN
5/7/2009 - Tom Bowman, president of Bowman Global Change, a firm that helps organizations make sustainable transformations, has written a paper defining the adjustments to climate change communication programs required to encourage sustainable ...
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EPA budget includes millions to track greenhouse gas emissions ...

Tampabay.com, FL
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson unveiled a $10.5 billion budget today that includes more than doubling the money the agency now spends on tracking greenhouse gas emissions. "That involves new analytical tools, upgraded testing capabilities, ...
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Baucus Warns of Inaction on Global Climate Change

ForexTV.com, NY
(rttnews) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) argued Thursday that, while fighting global climate change would not be without cost, the costs of inaction "would be far greater." Baucus noted that, last year, the Senate had lengthy ...
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Grading Google's carbon neutral claims

CNET News, CA - Candace Lombardi
Hewlett-Packard has announced a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 16 percent from its 2005 levels before the end of 2010. About 99 percent of HP's greenhouse gas emissions come from electricity use, with only 1 percent coming from ...
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Global Warming Bill Moving Through Congress

CattleNetwork.com, KS
The proposed bill (which doesn't yet have a number) is 648 pages long and the Titles of the legislation containing provisions designed to reduce "global warming" pollution will have an impact on production agriculture activities.
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Collin Peterson decidedly cool to climate change proposal

MinnPost.com, MN - Cynthia Dizikes
Collin Peterson laid down a hard line this morning on the developing climate change policy being promoted by the Obama administration. The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee indicated that he strongly disagreed with the administration's ...
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White House: No changes to climate proposal in budget

Reuters - Jeff Mason, Doina Chiacu
He was asked whether budget details to be released next week would include 100 percent auctioning of permits to industry in a future greenhouse gas emissions trading system. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Obama budget cuts have little deficit impact Reuters
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4 Ways Global Warming Increases Wildfire Risk

Daily Green - Dan Shapley
By Dan Shapley As yet another destructive wildfire sweeps down the California coast, it's time to revisit the global scientific link between global warming and wildfires. At least 20 homes -- described by Reuters as multimillion dollar mansions -- have ...
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Four Days to Save the Polar Bear:

Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ
"Congress and the American people have made clear that they want Secretary Salazar to protect the polar bear," said Snape. "The polar bear is severely threatened by loss of sea ice to climate change and needs the full protections of the Endangered ...
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Bjorn Lomborg and global warming: Part 1

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"There is a lot of conversation right now about what we should do about global warming, and promises of cutting CO2 by 20%, 40%, 80% abound. The problem in many ways is, it's not going to happen. We have tried this many times and we have not done so, ...
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Cap and trade won't push heavy industries overseas -- study

New York Times, United States - Christa Marshall
The two assumed a carbon allowance price of $15 per ton under a greenhouse gas emissions cap, a figure close to what US EPA has estimated would occur in 2015 with the Waxman-Markey plan. The authors then calculated the likely declines annually in both ...
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Which is a better tool against global warming? Carbon tax or cap ...

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It was he who stood in front of Congress in 1988 and flat out predicted that global warming would be a catastrophe. So when he comes out so strongly against cap and trade, which President Obama has submitted as part of his energy plan, ...
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A morally acceptable solution to climate change

Seattle Times, United States - Jesse Dye
Leaders of many faith communities are joining the discussion about the best solutions to climate change. Jesse Dye of Earth Ministry in Seattle argues that a cap-and-trade approach is a morally acceptable solution. By Jesse Dye WHY are so many faith ...
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CBI climate change board auditing project

CBI on Climate Change, UK
Data compatible with the government's approach was gathered by the consulting group Scott Wilson from the Climate Change Board to calculate an overall baseline, establish current levels of performance and estimate the Board's course to 2010/11...
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Climate Change in Pictures

New York Times, United States - Laura Shin
By Laura Shin In a recently published book, Gavin Schmidt, founder of RealClimate.org, attempts to tell the story of climate change in pictures. Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climatologist, has in many ways become the news media's conscience on climate science ...
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Prince Charles wages 'green' war to protect rain forests

USA Today
Here are his answers, in full: Q: Fossil fuels are largely to blame for the global-warming problem, so why are your climate change efforts focused on saving the rain forest? A: The reason is very simple. While you are quite right that fossil fuels are ...
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Tibet threatened by global warming: state media

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BEIJING (AFP) - China's top weather official warned Wednesday that Tibet was threatened by global warming, which could cause floods and droughts endangering millions in the nation's west, state media reported. "The impact of global warming has ...
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Utilities: 'Green' plan will save money, cut pollution

Boston Herald, United States - Jay Fitzgerald
The projected amount of greenhouse-gas emissions to be reduced is equal to the pollution spewed by roughly 40 percent of all cars on Massachusetts roads, the utilities said in a statement yesterday. Backers acknowledge that they can afford the cut in ...
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US climate change denier James Inhofe joins Al Gore in fight ...

guardian.co.uk, UK
So it was startling when America's arch climate change denier came out ahead of the green curve in the fight to save the Arctic and other icy regions. Inhofe, in a surprise move, joined Democratic senators in putting forward a bill for an official ...
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Free Trade, Green Trade

New York Times, United States - Daniel M. Price
Some developed countries have considered border taxes or tariffs on the products of major emerging markets that aren't curbing the growth of their greenhouse gas emissions. Developing countries rightfully cry foul on talk of such punitive trade ...
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Western Republicans rip climate change bill

Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Matt Canham
by Matt Canham Washington �� Democrats say their climate change bill will reduce harmful emissions and create a boom in green-collar jobs that will help power the economy in the years to come. But Western Republicans, led by Utah Rep.
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Pence: GOP not anti-science 'caricature'

Politico, DC - Andy Barr
Pence angered Matthews earlier in the interview by voicing skepticism for evolution and the science surrounding global warming. On global warming, Pence said that Republicans are "more than willing to stand for clean air," but added that "in the ...
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Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread use of ethanol: Does it help or hurt ...
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The end of “global warming”

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It gives me great pleasure to announce the end of "global warming." Or rather at least the term "global warming." As doubt about the hysteria of global warming and anthropogenic climate change continue to grow amidst the scientific community and the ...
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HOME > PUBLICATIONS > Exclusive: Book Review: ‘Heaven + Earth ...

Family Security Matters, NJ - Ben-Peter Terpstra
Human-induced global warming is a popular belief because it offers the satisfaction of righteousness without actually having to do anything. Subscribing costs nothing, it provides the immediate reward of moral superiority, and there is a bonus of ...
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Climate Minister defends delay

ABC Online, Australia - Sabra Lane
TONY EASTLEY: Penny Wong is the Climate Change Minister charged with getting the legislation through Parliament. She joins us this morning in our Canberra studio, and she's speaking with Sabra Lane. SABRA LANE: Minister, good morning and welcome to AM.
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EU, Japan team up to fight climate change

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PRAGUE (AFP) - The European Union and Japan decided to join forces in the battle against climate change and invited large countries to follow suit at a summit meeting in Prague on Monday. "Japan and the EU are aiming at building a low-carbon society.
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Ethanol Will Test Obama's Stance On Climate Change

RedOrbit, TX
President Barack Obama's promise to battle climate change will soon be tested as his administration faces questions on whether ethanol hurts or helps global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency will soon issue new ethanol standards.
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RP Imperative on climate change gets support

Manila Bulletin, Philippines
The Philippine Imperative project aims to drive the urgency of addressing climate change in both the private and public sector to find immediate solutions, especially to the large-scale problems that accompany global warming, ranging from poverty to ...
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US says wants to cut potent HFC greenhouse gases

Forbes, NY - Jeff Mason, Arshad Mohammed
By Jeff Mason and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States intends to work toward reducing emissions of potent greenhouse gases found in refrigerators and air conditioning systems but has not yet decided which international venue to use ...
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Agriculture and energy intense sectors oppose ETS

National Business Review, New Zealand
Under the ETS, limits on greenhouse gas emissions would be imposed on all sectors of the economy. Not all sectors would come under the ETS at the same time. Those that exceed their limits would have to buy carbon credits from those under their caps.
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As deadline looms, Interior mulls Bush's polar bear rule

New York Times, United States - Allison Winter
... Greenwire Prominent House Democrats and environmental groups are pressuring the Obama administration to overturn a special rule on polar bears from the Bush administration -- part of an effort to provide another federal tool for addressing climate ...
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Japan, EU to cooperate on ambitious global warming deal

Monsters and Critics.com
Prague - Japan is ready to cooperate with the European Union on a bold international deal aimed at curbing global warming that is intended to replace the existing Kyoto agreement from 2013, Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday.
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ENERGY STAR Program Recognizes Record Number of California Energy ...

Imperial Valley News, CA
Projects that qualify for this designation are designed to create fewer greenhouse gas emissions and save money on energy bills over the lifetime of the building. Once built, this year's 75 new projects are estimated to save nearly 100000 metric tons ...
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Rudd gets tentative tick of approval on Indigenous issues

ABC Online, Australia - Oscar McLaren
And he says the effects of climate change are shaping up to be a particular threat to Indigenous communities in various parts of the country. But he says his relationship with the current government is productive, and he's looking forward to close ...
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Climate debate heating up for Minnesotans in Washington

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Kevin Diaz, Bill McAuliffe
Minnesota's members are getting put on the spot over energy legislation meant to slow global warming, and the debate splits on regional as well as party lines. By KEVIN DIAZ and BILL McAULIFFE, Star Tribune I love it when people make comments like ...
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Industries Push for Free Pollution Credits

Wall Street Journal - Stephen Power
By STEPHEN POWER WASHINGTON -- A growing number of industries are lobbying for free pollution permits under legislation capping greenhouse-gas emissions, in a potential threat to the funding for President Barack Obama's proposed middle-class tax cut.
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FACTBOX-How Australia will change its carbon trading plan

Reuters - James Grubel
Following is a list of changes announced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Monday. The carbon trading scheme will now start on July 1, 2011, instead of the original start date of July 1, 2010.
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environment: Targets for Copenhagen —Scott Barrett

Daily Times, Pakistan
Coincidentally, the manufacture of HCFCs produces HFCs as a by-product, and HFCs are a greenhouse gas controlled under the Kyoto Protocol. This latest adjustment thus mitigates climate change even as it protects the ozone layer.
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Lawrence Solomon: Deep Arctic ice surprises scientific expedition

National Post, Canada - Lawrence Solomon
... University of Alberta, York University) one from the US (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and one from Italy (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. The path-breaking project broke new ground by employing the Polar 5, ...
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Global warming to sink .tv and .to domain names?

Australian Personal Computer, Australia
The highly-prized .tv domain name could be headed for extinction if tiny island and .tv host nation Tuvalu disappears beneath rising ocean waters. Climate change could be set to wipe a handful of domain names off the Internet's map.
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Climate change could ‘seriously hinder SE Asia development'

Daily Times, Pakistan
Climate change could 'seriously hinder' Southeast Asia's development and efforts to reduce poverty, a new study released by the Asian Development Bank said. With its long coastlines and heavy dependence on agriculture and forestry, Southeast Asia is ...
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Ingraham and Morano Expose Gore's Global Warming Profit Motive

NewsBusters - Noel Sheppard
By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) For several years NewsBusters has been informing readers of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's profit motive as it pertains to his advancement of global warming hysteria. This included the presentation of a video of the former ...
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Study: Humans Can Help "Super" Coral Reefs Recover From Climate Change

AHN - Linda Young
Phuket, Thailand (AHN) - There might be a few things humans can do to combat the effects of climate change on reefs, according to a new study. A combination of geophysical factors and improved fisheries management has resulted in making some coral ...
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Canada must work with others to protect Arctic: author

CTV.ca, Canada - Ed Struzik
He took 11 separate trips to the region while researching the book, travelling on everything from dogsleds to snowmobiles, skis and kayaks to get a clear picture of the effects of climate change. In the book, Struzik explores why polar bear populations ...
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US climate law may not be needed for global deal

Reuters - Deborah Zabarenko
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's acknowledgment that the United States needs to "make up for lost time" to help combat the effects of climate change went a long way to raise international morale, de Boer said. The international environmental ...
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Is Al Gore Profiting from Global Warming?

Opposing Views, CA
Some, though, have accused Gore of exploiting global warming for his own profit. Is there any truth to the accusations? Please select the category that most closely reflects your concern about this content, so that we can review it and determine ...
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