Published: April 14, 2011
Tags: carbon dioxide, coal, coal plants, emissions, energy
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By PATRICK CONDON Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Senate has voted to lift restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions from coal production that critics say prevented both construction of new coal plants in the state, and purchase of energy from new coal plants in neighboring states. The Senate voted 42-18 in favor lifting the [...]
Published: April 21, 2010
Tags: cap-and-trade approach, carbon dioxide, energy, energy bill, global warming, greenhouse gases, Obama, offshore drilling, pollutants
By Matthew Daly AP Writer Washington — White House energy adviser Carol Browner says she thinks Congress still has time to approve a climate and energy bill this year. Browner called action on the long-delayed legislation “doable,” because members of Congress increasingly understand the need to develop clean energy that does not emit carbon dioxide [...]
Published: April 1, 2010
Tags: alternative fuel, carbon dioxide, cars, electric, emissions, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, gas mileage, greenhouse gases, hybrids, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, Obama, oil, Transportation Department
By KEN THOMAS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is setting tough gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars. The heads of the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday will sign final rules requiring 2016 [...]
By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980. Since [...]
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer COPENHAGEN (AP) — As police cracked down on climate protesters, church bells tolled 350 times Sunday to impress on the U.N. global warming conference a number that is gaining a following, but is also awash in contradictions. Conference negotiators went behind closed doors in talks to pin down an [...]
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators on Friday offered yet another approach to tackling climate change, proposing the government sell pollution allowances to industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions and then use most of the money to send tax-free monthly checks to every American. The “dividend” checks, estimated to [...]
By DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. The announcement came as the Obama administration looked to boost its arguments at an international climate conference [...]
Published: November 22, 2009
Tags: Arctic, Bush, carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, glacier, global warming, Gore, greenhouse gas, Kyoto, Obama, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, U.S. Geological Survey, Weaver
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the [...]
Published: October 1, 2009
Tags: carbon dioxide, clean energy, Midwestern Governors Association
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John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Traverse City, MI — Midwestern states should use their abundant natural resources and manufacturing base to build an economy based on clean energy, according to a report to the region’s governors. The document, prepared for a meeting of the Midwestern Governors Association next week in Detroit, acknowledges that the 11-state [...]
Published: August 21, 2009
Tags: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas, Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill
George S. Van Nest Dolan Media Newswires Rochester. N.Y. — On June 25, the U.S. House narrowly passed the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill — H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. As the Senate considers the issue, the proposal warrants a close look. Key provisions of the House bill include an [...]
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