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

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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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