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Climate Scientists Urge Aggressive Action to Curb Global Warming
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn what's being called "the most comprehensive report ever on climate change," the National Academy of Sciences urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions. Three studies requested by Congress issued Wednesday provide the broad outlines for a national strategy to deal with climate change, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two more studies are still to come. Bold actions are necessary because "climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming ... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear ...
Kerry, Lieberman in New Push for Energy Bill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn the last gasp for an energy bill, Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman offered a plan Wednesday that promotes clean energy and nuclear power, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent over the next decade, and allows coastal states to veto federally leased drilling projects within 75 miles of their shores. Kerry said stakes for the bill are "sky high," the AP reported. It faces an uphill climb in gaining passage this year, with little or no GOP backing at this point. But the Massachusetts Democrat said he would press ahead and remains hopeful that Republican Lindsey Graham of ...
Opinion: Corporations at the Cap-and-Trade Trough
By not in system - AOL News(April 26) -- When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened this weekend to pull back his support of a global warming bill he co-authored -- along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. -- it looked as though the once-dead cap-and-trade bill could be dead again. That might be just as well. Unlike the previous cap-and-trade bills, the new bill, based on what's been reported by Mother Jones, has all kinds of new goodies for utility companies, oil companies and other corporate interests to gain their support. Indeed, if you can think of a big special interest group that would ...
W.Va. Stalagmite Points to Surprising Carbon Footprint
By Dave Thier - AOL News(April 18) -- The popular American myth of the "noble savage" -- perpetuated by novelists, painters, elementary schoolteachers and James Cameron alike -- holds that the original inhabitants of this continent were shining paragons of living in harmony with Mother Nature. But archaeology, and history, tell a different story: that Native Americans before 1492 seemed to be, well, people. Courtesy Gregory Springer, Ohio University This stalagmite, found in a West Virginia cave, showed a major change in the area's local ecosystem at about 100 B.C. The latest evidence for this comes from ...
Opinion: World Talks, US Delivers on Global Warming
By John Merline - AOL News(Dec. 11) -- At the Copenhagen global warming conference this week, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson sought to reassure world leaders that the United States is "fighting to make up for lost time" on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Her plea is understandable. The U.S. constantly gets an earful on this issue from other world big shots. "We need stronger U.S. action on climate change," is how Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg put it earlier this year. John Ashton, the British special representative for climate change, complained about an "ambition gap" between the U.S. and ...
E.P.A. Rules Greenhouse Gases Dangerous, Sets Up Carbon Regulation
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAt a press event Monday afternoon in Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has ruled greenhouse gases are a threat to public health, opening the door for the regulation of carbon emissions from automobiles, power plants, and other sources. "These long-overdue findings cement 2009's place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean-energy reform," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "This continues our work towards clean energy reform that will cut GHGs ...
Copenhagen by the Numbers
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- For the next 14 days, representatives from 192 nations will meet in Copenhagen for a long-awaited United Nations conference on climate change. Here, at a glance, are a few numbers that help explain what's going on in Denmark's capital. Zero Hour "The clock has ticked down to zero. After two years of negotiation, the time has come to deliver," U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer told delegates at the opening of the conference Monday. The session included a "slickly produced video appeal from children across the world to save them from what looked like an apocalyptic future of deserts ...
What's the Greenest Place in America? Hint: It Has 8 Million People
By not in system - AOL NewsGregory Bull, AP People walk along the High Line, a park planted on a long-closed elevated train line in Manhattan. Quick, what's the greenest spot in America? Vermont, with its lush landscape and environmentally conscientious citizenry? Or maybe Oregon, with all those trees and people who love to hug them? Wrong on both counts. It's New York City, according to author David Owen. He argues on Yale Environment 360 and in his new book, "Green Metropolis," that the thing that makes New York an ecological nightmare in many minds --- its densely packed population --- is the very thing that ...
Barbara Boxer: Cap and Trade Bill 'Like Giving Birth Again'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe process began nine months ago and there have been severe labor pains along the way, so when Sen. Barbara Boxer compared introducing climate change legislation to giving birth Wednesday, she wasn't too far off. After seeing the House shove through its climate change bill in June, and watching Majority Leader Harry Reid push back the Senate's work on the issue, Boxer and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) held a Capitol Hill press conference to unveil the Senate's version.Like the House bill, the Senate measure would increase investment in new, cleaner energy technology while also creating a ...
Obama Energy Policy: Poll Shows General Support
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyFor the Obama administration, all the uproar over health care seems to have sapped the strength of opponents struggling to block the equally ambitious and equally massive changes to the nation's energy policy. At least a new poll says so.In the Washington Post-ABC News Poll, 55 percent of those responding favor the way the president is handling energy policy. That drops a little to 52 percent when measuring support for the cap-and-trade system of controlling greenhouse gases. ...
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