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Utilities May Profit From Ruling

Some corporations may profit off tighter greenhouse gas regulations

Apr 3, 07 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some utility  companies may actually benefit financially from the Supreme Court ruling forcing the EPA to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions, the Wall Street Journal reports.  While it will cost them millions in the short-term to meet new requirements, utilities in government-regulated markets—mostly in the Southeast, Great... More »

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climate change • environment • politics • Texas • utility companies • pollution • greenhouse gases • Northeast • Southeast • Great Plains • West • Midwest • US Supreme Court • utilities

EPA Must Regulate Greenhouse Gases

Supreme Court ruling a rebuke to Bush's hands-off policy on auto emissions

Apr 3, 07 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Carbon dioxide must be regulated by the federal government unless it can provide a scientific reason not to, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-4 decision, which ordered the EPA to consider CO 2 an "air pollutant" as defined by the Clean Air Act, was a blow to the... More »

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climate change • environment • John Roberts • pollution • carbon dioxide • science • Clean Air Act • Massachusetts • Environmental Protection Agency • sea level • US Supreme Court

School Buses Plug In to Hybrid   

Eleven states are rolling out Environmentally Sound fleets

Apr 2, 07 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - School buses, usually in the slow lane, are passing automobiles by when it comes to converting to plug-in hybrid power, says the Christian Science Monitor.  While plug-in hybrid cars are still a few years off,  the buses are already rolling off assembly lines, and 19 have been ordered... More »

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climate change • energy • environment • Navistar • environmentalism • energy industry • fuel • hybrid car

GOP Insiders Nuke Global Warming

87% of Republicans on the Hill don't believe in climate change. The rest have a solution: nuclear power

Mar 27, 07 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The more powerful the evidence for global warming becomes, the more skeptical hard-line Republicans appear to be. Resistance to the case against greenhouse gases is hardening into conservative dogma, Jonathan Chait writes.  Last year, 23 per cent of Congressional Republicans said they believed humanity’s contribution to global warming... More »

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climate change • energy • environment • Republican • Al Gore • nuclear power • greenhouse gases • global warming • energy industry

Playwright Finds Times Arrogant on Al Gore

Do we have to read about the VP's weight in every dispatch?

Mar 26, 07 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Al Gore is having an astonishing political second act, leading the charge to save the planet, but the supercilious writers at the New York Times can't resist condescending to him, observes playwright Jon Robin Baitz,  doing a little reverse reviewing in his blog. TheTimes, he argues, displays its "... More »

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climate change • environment • media • newspaper • Al Gore • New York Times • Jon Robin Baitz • media criticism • politics

Burping Pill Cools Global Warming

Carnivores rejoice: a new pill makes beef more environment friendly

Mar 23, 07 3:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Who knew that bovine burping was a major source of methane gas and hence global warming? German scientists, that's who, and they've come up with a fist-sized pill to reduce it, along with the 4% of greenhouse gas emissions for which it is responsible. More »

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climate change • environment • cattle • greenhouse gases • farming • global warming • environmentalism • cows • methane

Restaurants Ban Bottled Water

Mar 22, 07 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fresh-food pioneer Chez Panisse has joined a growing number of San Francisco–area restaurants in striking bottled water from the menu. The decision to serve local tap water only—flat or carbonated in-house—comes from an effort to cut down on the packaging waste and energy used shipping bottles. More »

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climate change • environment • sustainable living • bottled water • conservation • water • environmentalism • waste • restaurant • privatization

Global Warming:
Who Wins?

Mar 21, 07 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Global warming is a looming planetary disaster, but there will be winners along with the losers, writes Brookings Institute Fellow Gregg Easterbrook. While arable regions turn into arid wasteland and coastal communities sink beneath rising oceans, climate change could trigger a real estate and mineral resources boom in balmier Alaska,... More »

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climate change • energy • environment • drought • global warming • Siberia • Greenland • sea level • green energy

Winter Sets Warmth Record

Mar 18, 07 11:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - This winter was the warmest ever recorded, bumping the previous high of 2004 in a crowded field: The ten warmest winters all fell within the past thirteen years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which calculates this average global temperature from land and ocean readings, concludes that the worldwide climate... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • global warming • The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration • temperature • global temperature

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