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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Environment News Service: Senate Democrats Unveil Bill to Curb Climate Change, Create Jobs Environment News Service (ENS) Senate Democrats Unveil Bill to Curb Climate Change, Create Jobs WASHINGTON, DC, September 30, 2009 (ENS) - The United States today took a big step towards enacting legislation to combat […]

Associated Press: Senate Democrats tried out a new catch phrase Wednesday to sell their global warming bill: pollution reduction and investment, or PRI. But it’s just another name for cap and trade, a term derided by Republican critics as "cap and tax" because it will increase energy prices and which Democratic polls have shown […]

Associated Press: The leader of the country’s largest Indian reservation threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation. Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. and Hopi lawmakers say environmentalists’ efforts could hurt the tribes’ struggling economies by slowing or stopping coal mining. Shirley said Wednesday […]

San Jose Mercury News: WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer unveiled ambitious legislation Wednesday to slash the nation’s use of carbon-emitting fossil fuels and reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil. But the measure, which could emerge as a test of the three-term Democrat’s leadership skills as she girds for a tough reelection fight next […]

Agence France-Presse: A pitched battle over climate change took off Wednesday in the US Senate, as leading Democratic lawmakers unveiled a bill unlikely to be completed before a key international conference in December. "We need to act now and get the job done," Democratic Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, […]

Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency took steps Wednesday to control the emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries for the first time. The EPA proposal would require polluters to reduce six greenhouse gases by installing the best available technology and improving energy efficiency whenever a facility is significantly changed […]

Christian Science Monitor: "Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate changes," notes a new study from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) that looks at how climate change will affect food production around the world by 2050. "Developing countries are likely to be hardest hit by climate change and will suffer bigger declines in […]

Associated Press: Many world leaders have expressed support for a proposal that would earmark $100 billion a year for the next decade for concrete actions to curb greenhouse gases and help countries cope with the impact of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Ban said he had sent letters to leaders of the […]

Agence France-Presse: The Philippines strongly urged developed countries Wednesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions to stem the impact of climate change in the wake of its worst flooding in decades. Tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rain in more than 40 years on Manila and its neighbouring areas over the weekend, killing 246 people […]

Reuters: Just as it seemed that differences over contentious issues regarding the next climate treaty were ironing out and all parties moving ahead with a common agenda, the developed countries, US in particular, threatened to stall negotiations until developing countries pledge equal emission reduction measures. According to new reports, American negotiators demanded that there […]

Inter Press Service: Environmental groups across the southeast United States, from Georgia to the Appalachia region, are stepping up their opposition to a controversial but widespread practice by coal companies of removing the tops of mountains with explosives. Atlanta-based activist Darci Rodenhi recently organised an ad hoc group called Mountain Justice GA, which lobbied […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Inter Press Service: Climate change aggravates soil degradation, but sustainable use of land resources can, in turn, mitigate global warming, according to participants at the United Nations conference on desertification in the Argentine capital. Ahead of the Climate Summit to be held in Copenhagen in December, representatives of 193 governments are […]

Inter Press Service: Travel through any Dominican town and you are likely to hear someone yell out, "llegó la luz" - the lights are back on! The country is notorious for its faulty and expensive electric service, which is more often dead than live. But in the remote mountain village of Los Calabazos no […]

Reuters: The United States could lose 1 million green jobs by 2020 if it gives into demands by poor countries to loosen patent protections on climate-friendly technologies, a U.S. business leader said on Wednesday. Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said U.S. manufacturers would not invest in "alternative fuels and energy-saving […]