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September 2007
- Bill Targets Reps' Gas Guzzlers
  
  McClatchy Newspapers | Sep 4, 07 4:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The environmental movement might just be trickling up: The House of Representatives has approved an energy bill amendment that would bar members from leasing gas guzzlers with taxpayer money. The proposal still faces some roadblocks, McClatchy reports, including its vague definition of emissions standards and the efforts of a top Republican to keep his beloved Tahoe. More »
  
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  House of Representatives • carbon emissions • environmentalism • energy • greenhouse gases • Joe Barton
- Do Carbon 'Offsets' Really Offset Anything?
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 2, 07 4:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Everyone from Al Gore to Coldplay has jumped on the carbon offset bandwagon, but the Los Angeles Times reports that their payments don’t actually make the air any cleaner. Here's how they work: "Offset” companies invest in existing clean energy and win the right to sell “reductions” in their name. When greenies pay up, they're only buying emission-less energy that would have been running anyway. More »
  
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  global warming • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • Al Gore • pollution • fossil fuel • Federal Trade Commission • An Inconvenient Truth • carbon offsets
July 2007
- Fla. Governor Joins Green Revolution
  
  Economist | Jul 13, 07 12:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Florida governor Charlie Crist is taking the green revolution farther down the road traveled in California, with an executive order setting the nation's toughest emission standards. Highly vulnerable to climate change, the fourth largest state will catalyze legal, business and attitude shifts throughout the country, says the Economist . More »
  
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  Florida • greenhouse gases • Arnold Schwarzenegger
June 2007
- G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge
  
  New York Times | Jun 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Global leaders renewed their vow to spend $60 billion to help fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa today as the G8 summit wrapped up. But they set no deadlines for delivering the relief, leading critics to question the pledge. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation," U2 frontman Bono told the New York Times. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Russia • Iran • France • global warming • Africa • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • Kosovo • AIDS • G8 summit • malaria • Group of Eight • Tuberculosis • Bono • U2
- At G8, Bush Hangs Tough on Greenhouse Gas Goals
  
  International Herald Tribune | Jun 6, 07 10:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The G8 summit convened today, with President Bush still holding out on long-term greenhouse gas emissions goals. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposal includes hard targets which would cut emissions in half by 2050 and limit global temperature change to an increase of 3.6 degrees F. The plan also includes a mandate to increase energy efficiency by 20% by 2020. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • climate change • carbon emissions • energy • greenhouse gases • Angela Merkel • G8 summit • global temperature
- Europe Disses Bush Plan for Climate Change
  
  Der Spiegel | Jun 1, 07 7:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The new Bush plan to combat climate change is being received with skepticism in Europe, where it is seen as a bid to outfox German Chancellor Angela Merkel and torpedo more radical proposals she will unveil at the G-8 Summit. Germany's Der Spiegel and Britain's Guardian both say the US is cynically resisting a concrete emissions reduction deal. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • climate change • global warming • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • Angela Merkel • G8 summit
May 2007
- Bush Wants Global Plan on Emissions
  
  Associated Press | May 31, 07 3:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush offered a groundbreaking—if decidedly vague—call this morning for a global plan to combat climate change, continuing to reposition himself on the issue. Bush asked 15 nations, including the G8, China, and India, to create "long-term global goals” on emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • climate change • environment • global warming • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • Tony Blair • Al Gore • vehicle emissions
- CO2 Emissions Soared From 2000 to 2004
  
  Reuters | May 22, 07 6:27 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions boomed between 2000 and 2004, a new study shows. Output of the greenhouse gas accelerated by 3.1% each year, compared to a 1.1% rate during the '90s, according to the National Academy of Sciences, faster than all but the most dire forecasts. More »
  
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  China • global warming • India • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • pollution • carbon
- Bush Asks Agencies to Cut Emissions
  
  Associated Press | May 14, 07 4:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush stepped up to the plate on global warming today, ordering the the EPA, transportation and other agencies to begin to regulate vehicle emissions by the time he leaves office. Chided by the Supreme Court last month for failing to protect the environment, Bush asked agencies to prepare plans, but offered no other details. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • climate change • environment • global warming • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • Environmental Protection Agency • vehicle emissions
- Burning Forests Heat Globe
  
  Independent (UK) | May 14, 07 8:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Destruction of rainforests is a bigger source of global warming than all the planes, cars and factories in the world, concludes a study reported today in the Independent . It's not just the loss of forests, which absorb CO2, that's the problem. It's the rampant burning of those forests that actually pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere than any sector except energy. More »
  
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  climate change • environment • global warming • carbon emissions • Brazil • greenhouse gases • Indonesia • deforestation • rainforest
- UN's Take On Climate Change Grows Sunnier
  
  BBC | May 4, 07 10:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Policy and behavior changes can help limit greenhouse-gas emissions and slow climate change, say experts at a UN conference in Bangkok—and at a reasonable price. Some curbs on emissions may even enhance global GDP, but time is short. Within 10 to 20 years, global emissions should begin dropping to avoid serious impact on the climate. More »
  
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  climate change • United Nations • carbon emissions • energy • greenhouse gases • fossil fuel • deforestation • sustainable living • consumption
April 2007
- Governator Says He'll Sue EPA
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 26, 07 6:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll take the Environmental Protection Agency to court if California doesn’t get a green light for its tough new auto emissions laws within six months. "The clock is ticking. If we don't see quick action from the federal government, we will sue the EPA," Schwarzenegger said yesterday. More »
  
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  California • climate change • environment • global warming • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Environmental Protection Agency
- Sorry, Al: Tree Planting May Speed Warming
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 10, 07 9:06 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Planting trees to offset your carbon footprint not only won't slow global warming, it may worsen its effects, a new study claims. Trees growing outside a small band of tropical zones don't cut the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by enough to offset the heat their foliage traps, says atmospheric scientist Govindasamy Bala in the Guardian . More »
  
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