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Feed SubscriptionU.S. Action to Combat Climate Change Remains Urgent
Climate change poses "significant risks" to society, the National Academy of Sciences said yesterday, warning that delaying cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will make dealing with the problem harder in the future. "Each additional ton of greenhouse gases emitted commits us to further change and greater risks," an academy panel said in a new report, which calls for the federal government to take a lead role in combating climate change at home and abroad. [More]
Read More »Supermarkets Try to Clean Up Another Spill: Greenhouse Gases
On top of the usual "spills in aisle five," grocery stores have another mess they're hoping to clean up: greenhouse gas leaks. U.S. EPA announced yesterday that its partnership to cut greenhouse gas emissions from grocery stores has reached 50 states.
Read More »Recession briefly axed greenhouse gases in 2009
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Recession drove industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions down 5.6 percent in 2009 but analysts said the plunge may be a brief, misleading sign of progress in slowing climate change.
Read More »Recession cuts U.S. and Russia 2009 greenhouse emissions
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2009, according to data submitted to the United Nations, as economic decline cut the use of fossil fuels
Read More »Climate-Related Riders to Bills Invite U.S. Government Shutdown
Urgent efforts to avert a government shutdown at midnight faltered yesterday over Republican initiatives to freeze climate rules, a challenge to the president's environmental priorities at the outset of his re-election bid. Controversial policy provisions meant to defund U.S
Read More »Bill to stop EPA on climate passes House panel
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas rules passed a first step in the Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday. [More]
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