Obama Supreme Court pick has small but solid record on ...

Grist Magazine, WA
One area that could be ripe for a Supreme Court evaluation are questions of what existing laws can do to protect species threatened by climate change, an issue that environmentalists have raised repeatedly when it comes to the polar bear.
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'Climate change making Everest harder to scale'

Mirror.co.uk, UK
A sherpa who holds the world record for climbing Everest has warned that climate change is making the mountain harder to scale. Apa Sherpa, 49 - who made his 19th successful ascent last week carrying the banner "Stop Climate Change, Let the Himalayas ...
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Climate change: Progress seen on funding problem

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PARIS (AFP) - The world's biggest carbon polluters made headway in talks here Tuesday on how to beef up funding to help poor countries in the firing line of climate change, senior officials said. The so-called Major Economies Forum (MEF) advanced on ...
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Taking pollution to market: America looks to make real climate ...

Independent, UK
Some of those same business leaders were in Copenhagen over the weekend to broaden support and add momentum to the process towards a new climate change treaty later this year. About 500 chief executives, business experts and campaigning celebrities ...
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25 x '25 Alliance wants more ag input on climate change bill

Brownfield, MO
by Ken Anderson The 25 x '25 Alliance is calling on House leaders to refer the climate change bill to the House Agriculture Committee. The climate change legislation, which would establish the first national limit on greenhouse gases, was passed by the ...
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House Climate Change Bill Clears Key Hurdle

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By ClimateBiz Staff - ClimateBiz Staff The nation's first federal climate change cleared a key hurdle last night by making it out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a 33-25 vote. The American Clean Energy and Security Act, also known as the ...
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House Panel Passes Limit on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Washington Post, United States
By David A. Fahrenthold A bill to create the first national limit on greenhouse-gas emissions was approved by a House committee yesterday after a week of late-night debates that cemented the shift of climate change from rhetorical jousting to a subject ...
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Energy Secretary Pushes for Action on Climate Change

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He said simple measures like painting roofs white and encouraging home buyers to look at utility bills when choosing a house could play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "Energy efficiency is ultimately free money," he said.
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Pelosi says climate change could change US-China game

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Whether Washington and Beijing can agree on how each will help contain greenhouse gas emissions will be crucial to negotiations aimed at striking a new treaty by the end of the year in Copenhagen. While the two sides have struck up-beat notes since ...
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House Panel Clears Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases

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By IAN TALLEY and STEPHEN POWER WASHINGTON -- A landmark proposal to curb US greenhouse-gas emissions cleared a key congressional panel, bolstering prospects that the government will put a price on carbon for the first time and portending a major shift ...
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Study doubts bill's effect on coal use

Houston Chronicle, United States
The sweeping bill voted out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee would create a cap-and-trade system that aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions by setting steadily decreasing limits and requiring polluters to obtain emission permits, ...
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Progress Made in Paris Climate Talks

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But he did not say whether progress had been made on one critical issue: the size of greenhouse gas emission cuts that scientists say are vital to reducing the impact of climate change. The Paris meeting is one of three gathering the 17 nations ahead ...
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Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps

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COPENHAGEN (AP) - Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new UN climate treaty by agreeing Tuesday that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century by setting specific limits on carbon.
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Gregoire orders state agencies to cut greenhouse-gas emissions

Seattle Times, United States
... Aidan Silber, 4, checks out "Snowflake," the polar bear, and other puppets Backbone Campaign brought to Thursday's rally on the waterfront in Seattle. The demonstration was held outside of the EPA's climate-change hearing. Gov.
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Obama team retains Bush polar bear policy

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
The polar bear, which environmental groups have made the furry face of climate change, presents a kind of problem that will come up again. Scientists say climate change is affecting animals all over the world, altering their habitats underneath them or ...
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Witnessing 'Nature's Most Amazing Events'

Buffalo News,  United States
By now unfortunately, most of us are familiar with the haunting image of a starving polar bear clinging to an ice floe and searching for food. Though we see the hungry polar bear here, we also see how his environment changes over the year.
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Carbon allowances -- the glue in House energy package

New York Times, United States
By PETER BEHR, Greenwire A massive climate bill has taken its first step forward in the House, its path paved by the giveaway of allowances -- free greenhouse gas emission permits designed to mute the economic impact of a carbon cap-and-trade program.
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Professor Steven Chu: paint the world white to fight global warming

Times Online, UK
The Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by President Obama as US Energy Secretary wants to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so they reflect more of the Sun's light and heat to combat global warming, he said today.
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Lose-Lose on Biofuels?

AMERICAN.COM, DC
An article published in Sciencemagazinein 2008 found that "corn-based ethanol nearly doubles greenhouse gas emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years." Another article in Scienceconcluded that crop-based biofuels create a ...
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India's activists push their government to put a price on carbon

New York Times, United States
By LISA FRIEDMAN, ClimateWire A coalition of Indian activists, academics and entrepreneurs is urging India's leaders to take a more aggressive stand on climate change. In two days of talks with US lawmakers and policy experts in Washington, DC, ...
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Pelosi staying on-subject while in China

China Daily, China
Accompanied by four Democrats and one Republican - all members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, - Pelosi met Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng. On Sunday, the delegation met the head of the local legislature.
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Australia's Greens want quick vote on carbon trade

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The carbon-trade plan is one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key reforms and a central plank of Australia's efforts to fight global warming, but the government is struggling to find the seven extra votes it needs in parliament's upper house Senate.
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US business-government relations undergo a climate change

Los Angeles Times, CA
Those shifts have been fueled by deep economic troubles accompanied by a sharp change in national political control, leading to a vastly different philosophy about how Washington should interact with corporations, he said. "There is a changing climate ...
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RP rebuts US statement on climate change

Manila Bulletin, Philippines
The Philippine government lauded Monday US commitments to reduce global warming but took exception to a US statement dismissive of the carbon reduction goals submitted by the Philippines to the recent UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, ...
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Peter Foster: Climate change makes for strange bedfellows

National Post, Canada
That new scary feature is the threat of climate change policy, which has unleashed a bout of interventionist aspiration unseen since the Soviet empire sought world domination. Climate change policy hysteria has led a weird combination of schizophrenia ...
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Idaho delegation opposes greenhouse gas legislation

IdahoStatesman.com, ID
Lawmakers doubt that a bill they say would raise the cost of gas and electricity can pass Congress this year. BY ROCKY BARKER - rbarker@idahostatesman.com Anything Congress can do to fight climate change is going to cost Americans more money for energy ...
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Yes to Obama's energy plan, no to global warming scare tactics

Examiner.com
This is despite my firm belief that climate change activists have severely exaggerated their claims regarding the causes and potential effects of global warming. Imagine a world much like today's, but without global warming as an issue.
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Will new gas standards hold up at the pump?

Tampabay.com, FL
The (greenhouse gas) standards will start a regulatory chain reaction with potentially devastating economic impacts. ��� A more potent anti-stimulus would be hard to imagine. Today is a good day. At the Auto Alliance, an association representing major ...
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Nuclear, Low-Carbon Platform Solutions To Climate Change

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ROME (Dow Jones)--Energy ministers from the world's eight richest nations Monday said they would increasingly emphasize nuclear energy and the creation of a common low-carbon technology platform as solutions to climate change and supply insecurity.
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Memorial Day Weekend at the Indy500; greenhouse gas, cars, stars'n ...

Cleveland Indy Media, OH
Not with more military recruitment fests, including this Indy500 spectacle celebrating cars, greenhouse gas, advertising, and militarism. A race car sponsored by the Indiana National Guard was the first to crash today, 05/23/2009, in the Indianapolis ...
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Climate-change action picks up on three fronts

Seattle Times, United States
Chris Gregoire indicate the momentum that has replaced debate on climate change. THE climate-change debate has never lacked for passion and energy, but it has remained, despite various fits and starts, a debate. Until now. A confluence of events, ...
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Surmounting climate change in the Himalayas

CNN
(CNN) -- Dawa Steven Sherpa is leader of Eco Everest Expeditions, aiming to educate climbers about their impact on the Himalayas and highlight the affects of climate change on the region. On May 21, his fellow climber Apa Sherpa broke the world record ...
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Should Major Emitters Focus on the Sun?

New York Times, United States
It is a makeover of the Bush administration's Major Economies Meetings on Energy Security and Climate Change. That initiative was widely criticized, particularly in Europe, as an end run around United Nations talks on a new climate treaty.
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Denise Bester: Adapting to climate change can improve our lives

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
World Environment Day is just around the corner, keeping the spotlight firmly on climate change in the run up to the international climate convention later this year. And that means the climate debate is a "hot" topic once again.
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Earth Talk: Scientists cite global-warming dangers

Baxter Bulletin, AR
Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.
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America's new green guru sparks anger over climate change U-turns

guardian.co.uk, UK
Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images US energy secretary Steven Chu will fly to Europe this week to begin talks that will be crucial in the global battle against climate change. The 61-year-old physicist will hold key discussions with energy ministers ...
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Melancon votes against climate-change bill

Houma Courier, Louisiana
The panel's action increases the likelihood that the full House for the first time will address broad legislation to tackle climate change later this year. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the panel's chairman, said the bill represents "decisive and ...
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Barton reveals frustration as climate-change bill advances

Dallas Morning News, TX
Joe Barton doesn't believe that man-made emissions cause global climate change. Thus, he sees no reason to regulate these gases. But that's just what the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted late yesterday to do. Last week, Barton had predicted ...
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New national fuel standard will be good for global warming, bad ...

The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com, MI
For a planet affected by global warming, this sounds nice. For those of us who live on it, this is a bad move. Vehicles will cost more - an extra $1300, or much more. A battered domestic auto industry now must push itself to meet these new rules or ...
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data on global warming

Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA
In other words, if you're waiting for absolute proof of global warming, it will never come. And that's the opening that the deniers and pooh-poohers try to manipulate. But I want to point you to the late '70s on the chart. That's about the time that ...
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Does conveyer belt of Everest summits help the climate change cause?

guardian.co.uk, UK
Apa Sherpa's record 19th Everest summit, done to raise climate change awareness, is impressive, but do such stunts work? Over the decades, since Apa started climbing the world's highest mountain, he has witnessed the impact of climate change on the ...
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Global Warming's Six America's

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Overall, the degree of certainty that global warming is happening is one of the central characteristics that distinguish Global Warming's Six Americas. At one end of the spectrum are the Alarmed, who are very certain that global warming is happening, ...
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Business leaders to meet at Denmark climate change summit

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The World Business Summit on Climate Change aims to find a way to strike an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases as the world is faces its deepest economic crisis for decades. "The importance of businesses' contributions to a climate agreement makes ...
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US aims to mend rich-poor climate split

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By Alister Doyle and Gerard Wynn OSLO/LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - The United States will try to persuade rich and poor countries to share the burden of fighting climate change next week, with a big US pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions likely to ...
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Pelosi heads to China for climate talks

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"It is the purpose of the trip to follow up on meetings that we have had here with representatives of China's government on the subjects of climate change and energy and how that relates to our economy," Pelosi told reporters. Foreign leaders have been ...
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Sherpa calls for an end to climate change while standing at the ...

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A 49-year-old Nepalese Sherpa reached the peak of Mount Everest late Wednesday for a record-breaking 19th time, unfurling a World Wildlife Fund banner that read, "Stop Climate Change, Let the Himalayas Live." He also placed on the summit a sacred ...
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Writer stumbles on global warming

Augusta Chronicle, GA
Mark Gelbart recently wrote a letter to the editor ("Writer misunderstands global warming," May 13) decrying the title of a letter from Marvin Murray, "Global warming debate riddled with inaccuracies" (May 10). Perhaps Mr. Gelbart doesn't realize that ...
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Cap-and-trade legislation to include 'Global Warming Gestapo'

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In an interesting turn of events during the debate yesterday, Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) issued a warning saying, "we're setting up a global warming Gestapo." The comment was made in reference to Section 201 of the act which establishes a ...
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EPA panel hears from governor, lawmakers, Starbucks

Seattle Times, United States
The Obama administration has said it hopes a bill moving through Congress to tackle greenhouse gas emissions will make new EPA regulations unnecessary. At the hearing, officials representing King County and Seattle Congressmen Jay Inslee and Jim ...
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EPA head hopes for climate-change law

Wyoming Tribune, WY
By Bill McCarthy CHEYENNE -- The Environmental Protection Agency administrator said she remains hopeful Congress will pass climate-change legislation this session. "I prefer legislation" over regulation, said Lisa Jackson, EPA administrator.
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