Ahead of next week's G8 summit in Japan, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for a united front against global warming
I separate my paper and plastics. I take the train to work instead of driving, and I'm definitely going to buy a bunch of those screwy lightbulbs one of these weekends. And...well, when it comes to being green, I guess that's about it.
Japan will cut its greenhouse gas emissions 60-80 percent by 2050 and can match or better European reduction levels over the next 12 years, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced Monday.
The Senate on Monday voted to debate a Democratic-backed bill to dramatically cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Analysis: Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner's Climate Security Act is the U.S.'s most serious attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Is it destined for failure?
An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor.
Exxon Mobil Chairman and Chief Executive Rex Tillerson will keep both of those titles after a shareholder resolution to split the jobs was defeated Wednesday.
If one person can make a difference, Taylor Francis, 16, wants to be that person. He's taking the global warming warning door-to-door from the U.S. to China
A climate-change bill that has widespread support as it heads to the Senate floor will create an estimated $150 billion of new assets in the first year it takes effect. Between now and 2050, regulating greenhouse gases could easily generate $3 trillion worth in value in the United States.
Analysis: The US finally rules that global warming is indeed threatening the species' survival. Not that it will make any difference
Ahead of next week's G8 summit in Japan, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for a united front against global warming
I separate my paper and plastics. I take the train to work instead of driving, and I'm definitely going to buy a bunch of those screwy lightbulbs one of these weekends. And...well, when it comes to being green, I guess that's about it.
Japan will cut its greenhouse gas emissions 60-80 percent by 2050 and can match or better European reduction levels over the next 12 years, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced Monday.
The Senate on Monday voted to debate a Democratic-backed bill to dramatically cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Analysis: Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner's Climate Security Act is the U.S.'s most serious attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Is it destined for failure?
An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor.
Exxon Mobil Chairman and Chief Executive Rex Tillerson will keep both of those titles after a shareholder resolution to split the jobs was defeated Wednesday.
If one person can make a difference, Taylor Francis, 16, wants to be that person. He's taking the global warming warning door-to-door from the U.S. to China
A climate-change bill that has widespread support as it heads to the Senate floor will create an estimated $150 billion of new assets in the first year it takes effect. Between now and 2050, regulating greenhouse gases could easily generate $3 trillion worth in value in the United States.
Analysis: The US finally rules that global warming is indeed threatening the species' survival. Not that it will make any difference
The GOP candidate's global warming plan has its flaws. But he has engaged the issue, and that bodes well for the '08 campaign
Sen. John McCain took his weeklong environmental tour to Washington state Tuesday, addressing the need for reducing the nation's dependency on foreign oil and sparking investment in environmentally friendly technology.
The presumptive GOP nominee is a step up from Bush, but that still doesn't make him the environmental candidate
The Dems may be greener, but the GOP are no slouches. (A Republican created the EPA, after all.) And that's what the Earth needs: good government, not politics
Short-term exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature deaths that should be taken into account when measuring the health benefits of reducing air pollution
Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, said Monday much of the technology to make energy generation cleaner and more efficient is available now. The challenge, however, is deploying it and making it cheaper.
The world's greatest green champion is no tree-hugger. He's an economist who's made lots of money off the cap and trade of pollutants -- which, incidentally, also cleans the air
If all goes according to plan, the business of buying and selling rights to pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases - carbon trading, as it is known - will curb global warming and save the world. That is its only purpose. Along the way, a lot of people will get rich.
Viewpoint: President Bush's new strategy for saving the world from climate change is too little, too late
Eating ethically is no easy task these days. One problem is deciding which ethic is more important. Keeping third-world farmers in fair trade jobs by purchasing their produce? Or assuaging your concerns over the environmental impact of getting that produce to your kitchen by shopping locally instead?
The E.U. Summit produces a pledge to cut greenhouse gases and slash energy imports
The EPA tightened restrictions on ozone, but why is the new limit still higher than what science recommends? Critics say it comes down to politics and money
A White House acceptance of mandatory caps on carbon outputs is conditional on the unlikely prospect of India and China doing the same
True or False: China, India and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol
Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it comes to climate change. Deforestation, by varying accounts, contributes anywhere from 20 percent to 30 percent of all carbon dioxide (C02) emissions -- around 1.6 billion tons.
Under the guidance of Sen. Barbara Boxer, the Climate Security Act, capping U.S. emissions, has passed the Senate. But the House -- and President Bush -- will be much tougher
While the Bush Administration continues to drags its feet on climate change, Montana has figured out 54 economy-boosting ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Triple digits will further encourage investors to get deeper into alternative energy and cleaner fuels. But governments still have to encourage the transition
The auto industry is embracing the new fuel standards out of Washington. But it is still fighting tougher state laws
The new Presidential Climate Action Plan sets forth a straightforward plan: To curb global warming, the White House -- and the U.S. -- must first go green at home at home
A coalition of states and environmental groups is urging the federal government to curb global warming pollution from planes and other aircraft
The United States could reduce its projected greenhouse gas emissions by up to half in the next 20 or so years at a "manageable cost" to the economy, according to the most comprehensive report to date of the steps needed to curb global warming.
Gov. Schwarzenegger wants to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions. Only the US government stands in his way
The airplane has become, for many, climate change public enemy number one. And for good reason, say environmentalists. The air travel sector now carries the label of "the world's fastest growing source of greenhouse gases" according to Friends of the Earth (FoE), with airplanes pumping out more than 600 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. That's nearly as much CO2 as the African continent annually expels.
Students will learn about climate change and the role that greenhouse gases are thought to play in global warming.
Consider this: if all 19,700 members of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) reduced their energy consumption by just 10 percent, they would save approximately $193 million in energy costs and eliminate more than one million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
U.S. President George W. Bush told a global climate change conference Friday that the United States will do its part to improve the environment by taking on greenhouse gas emissions.
Florida, the fourth most-populous U.S. state, is expected to impose strict new air-pollution standards that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, according to draft regulations released Wednesday.
The global concert series was a target for cynics, but it should be measured by its political impact, not its carbon footprint
George Bush again played roadblock-in-chief at the G8 summit. But he has a point: the G8 is largely irrelevant to making real progress on carbon emissions
Development campaigners have criticized a pledge by the leaders of the world's richest nations on Friday to give $60 billion to fight diseases such as AIDS in Africa.
Dr. Samuel Johnson said it best: nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows. In other words, to get stuff done, we humans need a deadline.
President Bush said Tuesday he is directing the Environmental Protection Agency, and the departments of energy, transportation and agriculture, to develop steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2008, but he failed to call for a specific increase in fuel efficiency standards.
In a free market economy, there are two basic ways to bring down the price of a product - increase supply or cut demand.
Troubled, flawed and shunned by the United States, the Kyoto Protocol remains to date the most comprehensive attempt by the international community to tackle, at a governmental level, one of the defining issues of our age: global warming and climate change.
Flush with what his administration called a "positive reaction" to his State of the Union address, President Bush took his message on the road Wednesday and explained in detail his plan to reduce gasoline consumption and greenhouse gases in the United States.
Chief executives from such major corporations as General Electric and DuPont teamed up with environmental organizations Monday, urging U.S. lawmakers Monday to pass sweeping legislation that would ultimately cut greenhouse gas emissions.
With the Democrats back in control of Congress next month, mandatory restrictions to combat global warming are again on the table.
A company operating coal-burning power plants was sharply critical of what it called "arbitrary" changes in government pollution-control rules over the past quarter century, in an important environmental case argued Wednesday before the Supreme Court.
Climate change could devastate the global economy on a scale of the two world wars and the depression of the 1930s if left unchecked, a top economist has warned.
Hot air is now for sale.
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take up the issue of climate change, some unusual alliances are forming - and corporate America finds itself on both sides of the debate.
Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp.
An executive at American International Group, one of the largest insurance firms in the world, said he believes a tax on carbon emissions, long opposed by the Bush administration and legislators on both sides of the political isle, is coming to the U.S.
Along the shores of the sleepy Ohio River, deep in West Virginia's "megawatt valley," the twin smokestacks of American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal plant rise 1,000 feet, a shade higher than the Eiffel Tower. Here coal is burned to heat water to make steam that drives the giant turbines that make the power - a grossly inefficient process that has barely changed since the days of Edison.
The European Union is moving ahead with a plan to cap the greenhouse-gas emissions of airlines - including U.S. carriers that fly to Europe - a move that could add billions of dollars in extra cost...
Long-term investors, take heed: Global warming will have a significant impact on the financial performance of companies in your portfolio.
Every flight you take produces greenhouse gases, which can have a direct impact on climate change. Travel uses energy and this comes mainly from fossil fuels.
The answer to global warming may be blowing in the wind. It's probably also driving on four wheels and could be in your next tank of gas.
While the recent implementation of the Kyoto Protocol marked a key milestone, international accord on how best to address climate change remains elusive, as doomsday scientific forecasts clash with thorny political realities.
Hot air is now for sale.
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River flowing past Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire and burned noxious sludge from steel mills, paint factories and sewage plants. In California, an offshore drilling rig stained the coast of Santa Barbara with more than 3 million gallons of crude oil. The skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home to the nation's steel industry, were so dark with soot that drivers sometimes had to turn on their headlights during the day.
Last week, California approved new regulations requiring automakers to cut cars' greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent starting with the 2009 model year and up to 34 percent by 2016.
Southern California tops the list of the nation's cities and counties most threatened by air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's annual report.
A national group of Christian leaders is sending a scathing letter to President Bush to coincide with Earth Day, accusing his administration of chipping away at the Clean Air Act.
Setting limits on states rights, the Supreme Court Wednesday gave the federal government the power to impose more expensive pollution controls than Alaska wanted regarding power generation at an Alaskan mine.
The Middle Eastern countries under which most of the world's oil is buried are positively seething with discontent. Crude prices are near their highest levels in a decade. House and Senate negotiat...
"Two offers at 150."
Now that we're all feeling queasy about being so reliant on Middle Eastern oil, what can we do about it? Answer: carbon tax.
Reviled at last year's Rio Conference as a foot-dragger, the U.S. is starting to look like an environmental leader -- at least compared with those onetime heroes of Rio, the Europeans. For all the ...
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