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Republican politicians across the country are joining in a campaign to repeal California's global warming law. In what is being called the "jobs initiative," Republicans nationwide are pushing a new piece of legislation that would suspend more than half of California's greenhouse gas laws if statewi...
Tomorrow when the delegations from the world's largest economies meet in Iqaluit, a capital "city" in the Canadian arctic, the meeting won't cover how to stop global warming, but rather how to profit from it. The remote location was chosen specifically for its proximity to Canada's northern border,...
Industry groups are suing California's recently adopted low-carbon fuel regulation on the basis that it discriminates against fuels not produced inside California's state limits. The first-of-its-kind law requires petroleum producers to reduce their carbon footprint by 10%, including extraction, pro...
An increase in atmospheric water vapor is responsible for at least a third of the average temperature increase since the early 1990s, say scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Susan Soloman, the respected climate scientist who lead the research, says that this...
In last December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, developed nations promised as much as $30 billion in "fast start" aid regardless of what the final accord did or did not accomplish. These funds were meant to help the poorest nations in Africa and the Indian subcontinent where preparation work is needed...
Pressure on UN Climate Chief Rajendra Pachauri increases as investigators uncover more evidence that the program administrator may have used mistakes printed in the IPCC report for personal gain. The London Times reported that Pachauri's foundation, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), was awa...
Discussed at length by both Reuters and The New York Times, the election of Republican Scott Brown to serve as Massachusetts Senator may have even worse implications on the future of greenhouse gas regulation than it does on the healthcare bill. The loss in Massachusetts, a "deep-blue" state that ha...
Last year, on the first day of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Obama revealed a way that he could sidestep Congress and use the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gasses. Today, Senate Republicans are moving to block Obama and strip the EPA of this right indefinitely.
In the third public misstep in as many months, the IPCC retracted a statement in their last assessment report that asserted an accelerated melt rate in the Himalayan ice cap. In what's been dubbed "the Himalayan scandal," the IPCC built dire warnings of the mountain range's melting ice into their la...
The new president of the European Union revealed the bloc's intentions to continue the fight against global warming, even if other nations won't make the same kind of sacrifices. While the Copenhagen Climate Summit found no takers for Europe's aggressive proposals, the EU believes the G-20 may be a...
