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News and InformationNews and InformationNovember 24, 2008 Obama urged to create 'Green New Deal'Source: Boston Globe The worldwide economic crisis is prompting a growing number of countries to back away from pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy, just a week before the start of talks in Poland on a new worldwide... November 24, 2008 Governments, Companies Must Hasten Carbon Capture, IEA Says  Source: Bloomberg Governments and coal producers need to step up efforts to develop power projects that capture carbon pollution to have a chance of meeting emissions targets, the head of the International Energy Agency said. Without so-called... November 22, 2008 Coal industry, utilities ponder future under ObamaSource: Chicago Tribune Bill Raney considers coal golden. After all, the black rock fuels half of the nation's electrical generation. But the West Virginia Coal Association's president and others in the industry say they've received mixed messages about... November 21, 2008 Obama may ease stand on environment, Whitman saysSource: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The nation can expect environmental regulations to start tightening soon after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman predicted Thursday in... November 21, 2008 Bush angers environmentalists with last-minute rule changes Source: Los Angeles Times Many of the 'midnight regulations' open wilderness for oil and gas drilling, and loosen environmental safeguards. President Bush has pushed 53 through in three weeks, researchers say. November 21, 2008 NOAA Declares October Second Warmest for Global TemperaturesSource: Department of Commerce Washington (Nov. 18)—The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... November 20, 2008 Measuring the National Carbon Footprint Source: Slate.com The United Nations reported this week that Kyoto Protocol signatories have reduced greenhouse-gas emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels, four years ahead of the treaty schedule. Is it really possible for a country to measure... November 20, 2008 California leads fight against climate change on global levelSource: LA Times Gov. Schwarzenegger signs a pact with heads of other states and provinces to cut greenhouse emissions. 'We have got to do something worldwide here,' he says. November 19, 2008 Google CEO Schmidt lays out U.S. energy ideasSource: Reuters The United States should use part of any future economic stimulus package to connect wind turbines and solar energy to the nation's electricity grid, said Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, an advisor to President-elect... November 19, 2008 Cap carbon to spur economy: business leadersSource: Reuters U.S. business leaders including the troubled Big Three automakers offered a prescription on Tuesday for economic recovery and job creation: cap the carbon emissions that spur global warming. "The twin dynamics that are going to... |
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