Congress is set to pass anemic climate change legislation

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History making legislation on regulating C02 to curb climate change could pass the house this week, but not everyone will be happy. Are you saying the US should agree to cut emissions by 30%, as the EU is proposing to do, if other industrialised ...
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The Chamber Watches Itself On Climate Change

Atlantic Online
These same activist groups would have Congress believe that if the US first commits to domestic greenhouse gas limitations, China, India, Brazil, and other emerging economies will follow suit with binding commitments of their own.
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Environmentalists Attack House Global Warming Deal

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16, 2009 If it's this hard for Democrats to agree on tough global warming curbs, polar icecaps beware. With the greenest lawmakers in charge and the President cheering them on, the prospects of sweeping controls on greenhouse gases seemed rosy.
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Krugman: Carbon Tariffs the Answer to Chinese Emissions Problem

Wall Street Journal
But that unfairness doesn't change the fact that letting China match the West's past profligacy would doom the Earth as we know it [���] As the United States and other advanced countries finally move to confront climate change, they will also be morally ...
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House Energy Bill Proposes Free Pollution Allowances

CQPolitics.com, DC
To meet the bill's cap on greenhouse gas emissions, businesses could either reduce pollution or purchase allowances from other companies. These allowances would be valuable commodities representing the right to emit greenhouse gases.
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DOE's Chu announces CCS projects

Charleston Gazette, WV
The funding is part of the Obama Administration's ongoing effort to develop technologies to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas and contributor to global climate change, into the atmosphere while creating new jobs.
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Even With a Climate-Change Deal, Some Democrats Uncommitted

Wall Street Journal
By Siobhan Hughes WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Last-minute negotiating within the Democratic caucus on a climate-change bill continued in earnest through Wednesday, with oil refiners jockeying for more consideration and lawmakers from low-income regions ...
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Crisis making EU environment accord harder-Sweden

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STOCKHOLM, May 15 (Reuters) - The financial crisis has made it harder for the EU to agree on an internal target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions as part of a global climate change deal, Sweden's environment minister said on Friday.
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Al Gore: US climate change bill a 'good start'

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A bill to fight climate change currently before the US Congress "is a good start," Nobel laureate and environment champion Al Gore said Friday. With the House Energy and Commerce Committee due to start its formal debate on the bill ...
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Global warming--err, sorry--make that twenty days and twenty nights

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For years now, Al Gore and other global warming alarmists have been talking about the threat of melting ice. Their principal concerns have been Greenland and the Antarctic. They have said--repeatedly--that if the West Antarctic ice sheet melts, ...
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Global Warming Skepticism Reviewed

RantRave | Published Opinion., WA
A fellow RantRaver and I have dueled, in the verbal sense, on the topic of global warming. The Cypress Gang has been decidedly in the skeptic camp, and I am decidedly in the "it's inevitable" camp. I appreciate the skepticism. I think it is healthy.
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Arctic meltdown

Calgary Herald,  Canada
... so much of it is dependent on the cold, on sea ice for polar bears and for seals to den. The other half of the people I talked to said "Our culture is a culture of adaptation. That's how we've been able to live in this very harsh climate.
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National Science Foundation Releases Comprehensive Report on ...

National Science Foundation (press release)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a report on global climate change, entitled "Solving the Puzzle: Researching the Impacts of Climate Change around the World," that describes how, over nearly 60 years, NSF-funded researchers have found ...
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Animals moving north due to climate change

United Press International
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 14 (UPI) -- A study conducted by three US universities suggests some Michigan mammals are moving northward, apparently in response to climate change. Scientists from the University of Michigan, Ohio's Miami University and Michigan ...
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Letter: Urge Dingell to back climate-change bill

MLive.com, MI
Now Michigan is in a unique position to affect the future of climate-change legislation, because Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell and his committee colleagues will be the first to debate and vote ...
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Endangered species not a pawn for cap-and-trade

OneNewsNow, MS
A global-warming skeptic is delighted that Barack Obama will not be using polar bears to fight alleged "climate change." It is being reported that President Obama will not use the Endangered Species Act, as it pertains to polar bears, to fight climate ...
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Soaring electricity use by new electronic devices imperils climate ...

New York Times, United States
... consumption will increase more than many previous forecasts, and therefore pose a serious challenge to all governments with policy ambitions to increase energy security and economic development, and to mitigate climate change," states the report. ...
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Climate change bill could end regional alliance

Boston Globe, United States
By Susan Milligan WASHINGTON - A landmark alliance that Massachusetts helped form is slated for elimination under a climate change bill being written in Congress, possibly depriving the Bay State of as much as $100 million it now collects from power ...
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Plastic Wine Bottles Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas

Oneindia, India
By : ANI Australian winemaker Wolf Blass has claimed that selling wine in plastic bottles, instead of glass bottles, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Having launched its Green Label, which the company's believe to offer a dry white and cabernet ...
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Give global warming skeptics a voice, too

Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA
This might well apply to global warming, where the "science is settled" side is pushing massive plans in Congress to reduce carbon dioxide. But the science is not settled. If it were, we would have great confidence in all these statements: 1.
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GOP Blocks Hayes as No. 2 at Interior Department

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John Barrasso has placed a hold on the nomination of Regina McCarthy to be the Environmental Protection Agency's assistant administrator for air and radiation, citing concern over how she would implement the EPA's recent finding that greenhouse-gas ...
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Professor Anthony Costello: climate change biggest threat to humans

Times Online, UK
"The big message of this report is that climate change is a health issue affecting billions of people, not just an environmental issue about polar bears and deforestation," Professor Costello, the commission leader, said. "The impacts will be felt not ...
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epa's global warming ruling: Flawed but worth debating

Kansas City Star, MO
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist Barack Obama rightly wants to aggressively attack global warming by reducing the release of greenhouse gas emissions that help cause it. However, this is going to be a tough slog for the ...
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Pen Hadow climate change trek makes it less than half way to North ...

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The Catlin Arctic Survey, the first Polar expedition to monitor the affects of climate change on sea ice, was also unable to measure the ice using state-of-the art equipment because of the freezing conditions. However more than 16000 observations were ...
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Rymco Appoints EcoSecurities to Audit and Offset its Greenhouse ...

Autochannel (press release)
RYMCO is the first automotive dealer in Lebanon to have signed on with EcoSecurities, a leading company in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon offsets from greenhouse gas abatement projects, to assess, measure, and offset the ...
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Cutting greenhouse gases not a party but a way of life

BusinessWorld Online, Philippines
Symbolism is fine, if it is the way to get more people to understand the link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change or the connection between clean energy, energy conservation and the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Murder on the Capitol Hill Express

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To some groups, Republicans have simply argued that it'sa global warming bill and that global warming doesn't exist. In other quarters, Republicans touted economic arguments. The GOP has raged for weeks about an MIT study projecting a $3000 annual ...
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Polar explorer to to talk climate change at the Fargo Theatre

WDAY, ND
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - A polar explorer is talking about his experiences at the Fargo Theatre tonight. Will Steger, from Minnesota, is now touring the country talking about climate change based on what he's seen on his expeditions.
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Orszag: No global warming dispute

Politico, DC
By LISA LERER | 5/12/09 5:49 PM EDT Photo: AP Republicans and business lobbyists believe a memo from the Office of Management and Budget is a "smoking gun" that proves that the Environmental Protection Agency was playing politics when it proposed ...
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'Global Warming' No Longer Part of President Obama's Agenda?

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But there is one thing that is changing and that is global warming. We may see the end of global warming, you know. I mean, not global warming is not going to end, there's still going - but the phrase "global warming" is. President Obama's Council on ...
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Climate Change Driving Michigan Mammals North

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ScienceDaily (May 12, 2009) - Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species are replacing their northern ...
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Coral Triangle at risk from climate change

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By Sunanda Creagh JAKARTA, May 13 (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's biologically diverse coral reefs will disappear by the end of this century, wiping out coastal economies and sparking civil unrest if climate change isn't addressed, conservation group WWF ...
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Canadian greenhouse gas cuts not being measured: audit

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OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian government is failing to measure whether or not individual programs to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions are succeeding, as required by law, an audit revealed Tuesday. "We found that the government will be unable ...
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Climate change legislation to generate $624 billion in tax revenue

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The climate change legislation proposed by the Obama administration would generate $624 billion in revenue for the federal government over the next 10 years according to the administrations 2010 budget proposal. The cap-and-trade plan - or cap-and-tax ...
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Australia's chance to lead climate change action

Eureka Street, Australia
The Australian community is divided over whether the Federal Government's proposed revised climate change strategy is a step in the right direction. The changes extend the upper limit of possible carbon reductions to 25 per cent, but delay its ...
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Australian Govt Provides A$15B To Cut Carbon Emissions

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CANBERRA (Dow Jones)--The Australian Government has earmarked more than A$15 billion for what Climate Change and Water Minister Penny Wong Tuesday said is a comprehensive and integrated suite of policies and programs aimed to cut carbon dioxide ...
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Save the Arctic

The Gazette (Montreal), Canada
These include the initiative led by former US vice-president Al Gore and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr St��re on melting ice in the Earth's polar and mountain regions, and the Aspen Institute's Commission on Arctic Climate Change, ...
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American Pika Advances Toward Endangered Species Act Protection

Media Newswire (press release), NY
San Francisco, CA -- The US Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that it is launching a full status review to determine whether the American pika, a small, alpine-dwelling relative of the rabbit that is imperiled by global warming, warrants the ...
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Floods in Brazil point to climate change: Lula

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BRASILIA (AFP) - Flooding that has left 44 dead in northern Brazil and the worst drought in eight decades in the south of the country are signs of climate change, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday. "Brazil is feeling climate ...
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Obama Budget Projects $624 Billion In Climate-Change Revenues

NASDAQ, New York
By Siobhan Hughes, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration projected on Monday in a detailed version of its fiscal 2010 budget proposal that a law to combat climate change would raise $624 billion over 10 years.
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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: But is it dead, dead?

Washington Times, DC
It looks like the polar bear, which has become a symbol of global warming's ravages, is set to remain just that: symbolic. Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar chose Friday to stick by Bush-era regulations of the polar bear as an endangered species: a ...
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Future Climate Change Likely To Cause More Respiratory Problems In ...

Science Daily (press release)
sciencedaily (May 11, 2009) - More children will end up hospitalized over the next decade because of respiratory problems as a result of projected climate change, according to a new study from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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Sask. government to release greenhouse gas plan

CBC.ca, Canada
The Saskatchewan government is set to unveil its latest plan for dealing with greenhouse gases. It's expected to be a major policy initiative for the Saskatchewan Party government, which has been under pressure from NDP critics for failing to deliver ...
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House Dems edge closer to consensus on climate and energy bill

New York Times, United States
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN, ClimateWire House Democrats are within sight of an agreement on key pieces of a major energy and climate change bill as the Memorial Day deadline for an Energy and Commerce Committee markup draws near.
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US EPA budget calls for greenhouse gas registry

The Low Carbon Economy, UK
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has laid out plans for the creation of a $17 million (��11.2 million) greenhouse gas registry as part of its 2010 fiscal budget proposals. In an attempt to ensure that the fast-developing carbon trading ...
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Smart meters plan is a 'revolution'

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Climate Change and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the cost of replacing the meters would be spread over a "long period" of 10 to 20 years. He told GMTV: "This is a big deal because basically we've got 47 million meters across this country and what ...
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China Emerges as a Leader in Cleaner Coal Technology

New York Times, United States
"The steps they've taken are probably as fast and as serious as anywhere in power-generation history," said Hal Harvey, president of ClimateWorks, a group in San Francisco that helps finance projects to limit global warming.
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NCGA Push the Benefits of Corn-Based Ethanol for Reducing Green ...

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The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) urged policymakers in our nation's capital to acknowledge the benefits of corn ethanol in helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As the debate surrounding the future of biofuels continues, ...
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Michel Jarraud: Global warming proof undeniable

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
Scientists with the International Polar Year report that during the summers of 2007 and 2008, the minimum extent of year-round Arctic sea ice decreased to its lowest level since satellite records began 30 years ago. The increased melted land ice and ...
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Ocean Conference Reviews Climate Change Impact On The Future

RedOrbit, TX
Ministers from 70 countries will congregate in Indonesia Monday to discus how to save the world's oceans and to plan climate change discussions in December. The five-day World Ocean Conference in Manado city is being called a unique congregation on the ...
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