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Iowa Woman Says Hyundai Dealer Forced Car On Her

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Suit one of first under new consumer protection law
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Australian PM heads for key US talks

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Agence France-Presse: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was heading to Washington Sunday for key talks with US President Barack Obama to be dominated by climate change and the conflict in Afghanistan. Rudd will arrive fresh from a Commonwealth summit in Trinidad where he helped steer a landmark declaration backing moves to […]

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EU: Nations must do more for climate change pact

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Associated Press: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is urging China and other countries to make more ambitious commitments on curbing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Barroso welcomed fresh emission pledges by China and plans by both Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and U.S. President Barack Obama to attend next month’s U.N. conference on climate change […]

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Commonwealth heads of gov’t meeting closes, with declaration on climate change

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Xinhua: Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning Sunday formally declared closed the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on Sunday in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. He said that Australia would be the next nation to host the CHOGM, which will take place in 2011, then Sri Lanka in 2013 and […]

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Factfile on UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen talks

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Independent (UK): The December 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen is tasked with framing a new deal for tackling global warming and its impacts beyond 2012. Here is a factfile on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the talks. UNFCCC The offshoot of the 1992 Rio Earth […]

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UN climate talks: The key players

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Independent (UK): Following is a snapshot of the main players in the global climate talks, ahead of the December 7-18 conference in Copenhagen. GROUP OF 77 AND CHINA The bloc of developing nations insist rich countries - deemed responsible for today’s warming and best placed to tackle it - commit to legally-binding reductions […]

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Denmark: The activists’ circus comes to Copenhagen

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Guardian: In two weeks’ time, seven-year-old Gabriel Anderson will be in the centre of Copenhagen, climbing on to a step to address the crowds at the end of another Performance Family Picnic. Gabriel, his brothers Sid (the family’s two-year-old "head of research") and Neal, nine, plus his parents, artists and lecturers Gary Anderson and Lena […]

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Dalai Lama urges world to act on climate change

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Associated Press: The world’s leaders must prioritize the issue of global warming above all else, the Dalai Lama said Monday, adding that he feels encouraged by next month’s climate change summit in Copenhagen. The revered Buddhist figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner, in Australia for a series of lectures on universal responsibility and the […]

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French watchdog concerned over nuclear skills

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Business Green: France’s nuclear watchdog has expressed concern over the loss of skills in the atomic energy industry after a near 20-year gap in building reactors. In an interview with the Financial Times, André-Claude Lacoste, head of the French Nuclear Safety Authority, said: "The relaunch of construction, and monitoring that relaunch, are not […]

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U.S. Forest Service to Adapt Woodland Management to Climate Change

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Greenwire: Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency’s regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change. In a memo earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how the agency will deliver […]

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Leeds scientist calls for world forest observatory

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Bioscience Technology: A new scientific organisation is needed to monitor the commitments that will be made by developing countries at Copenhagen to cut their deforestation rates, according new research at Leeds. Existing government agencies and research groups have failed to make full use of the thousands of satellite images of the Earth’s surface collected […]

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Video – Two New Luxury Sedans For 2010

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 8:50 am

Both BMW and KIA unveil their offerings in December.
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How Offshore Oil and Gas Production Benefits the Economy and the Environment

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 8:21 am

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Conventional wisdom holds that offshore oil and gas production harms the surrounding environment. This blanket "wisdom" ignores the fact that the largest source of marine hydrocarbon pollution is offshore natural oil seepage. It also ignores the fact that offshore oil production has lowered the amount of oil released into the ocean by […]

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Three Gallons Per Mile

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 4:10 am

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Often when I am flying, I think about the amount of fuel that the airplane is burning. Then when I am off the plane, I usually forget about it. I have heard mixed opinions on the overall efficiency of airline travel versus automobile travel, but just never got around to investigating the […]

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What To Do If You’re In An Auto Accident

Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am

Find out what to do if you’re in an auto accident. Your insurance company will want a police report, so call the police. Car accidents are accidents, be calm and read over this list of tips that tell you what you should do, and what you should not do when you have been in […]

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