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Climate change gets a real kick in the pants
16 hours ago ago from Phlog
These last few weeks could possibly be some of the biggest in climate change and greenhouse gases history. First there was the misnomered ClimateGate that sent climate-change scientists on the defense; then on Monday, the global climate summit opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, with some 200 heads of government set to attend; and then later that same day, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced they found greenhouse gases to endanger the ...
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17 hours ago ago from Current Savers Blog
Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate summit opened in Copenhagen. Now they ll keep their eyes on Congress to act on future legislation. First Solar s chairman and ...
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21 hours ago ago from SSC international
The EPA is finally taking action on climate change. Yesterday, the EPA announced the completion of their endangerment study on greenhouse gas emissions. This study deems GHGs as harmful to human health and welfare. This means that the EPA is legally obligated to curb them. This, in combination with the Supreme Court ruling handed down almost 3 years ago that stated that the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990 includes GHGs, will help the ...
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7 hours ago ago from Conducive Chronicle
This is a big week for Climate Change. The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen began Dec. 7th and will come to a close Dec. 18th; hopefully ending with a strong international agreement to combat greenhouse gas emissions. On the first day of the conference, the US EPA made a major announcement: that they now officially view greenhouse gas emissions as a threat to human health and the environment. This endangerment ...
Related contentUS EPA issues finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and welfare, triggering new regulations under the Clean Air Act
16 hours ago ago from Great Lakes Law
As expected, the US EPA this week took two formal actions finding that: (1) greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare; and (2) greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to the greenhouse gas pollution which threatens public health and welfare. The details of the EPA’s “endangerment findings” are available on the EPA’s climate change regulatory initiatives webpage . These findings have been nearly inevitable ever ...
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Plant A Tree, Cool The Planet
21 hours ago ago from Forbes.com
If there is a silver lining in the failure of the Copenhagen climate accords to produce a comprehensive treaty on global warming, it is that instituting a robust and lasting agreement a year from now is preferable to a weak one today. But what variables might change in the near term that could give rise to a binding and effective agreement on climate change in the future? One important shift and potential game-changer is the growing ...
Related contentUN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record
20 hours ago ago from Good News Now
COPENHAGEN -This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. In some areas central Africa and southern Asia this will probably be the warmest year, but overall 2009 will "be about the fifth-warmest year on record," said Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the ...
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1 day ago ago from PopEater
UN Challenged to Provide Sound Evidence for Catastrophic Forecasts COPENHAGEN , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ - The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC - see http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/ ) today released the names of over 140 leading climate experts from 17 countries who are asking the United Nations and other supporters of this month's Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of ...
Related contentReducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
21 hours ago ago from Good News Now
Ontario, Canada is closer to establishing a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The legislature has passed the Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), the foundation for Ontario's cap-and-trade program. The act allows Ontario's program to link to other systems in North America and abroad. Aligned systems would maximize trading opportunities for industry, helping them to make GHG ...
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