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Hacked E-mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
The e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists.
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Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Nations Unveil Plans to Rein in Emissions
Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.
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Environment
United States
Global Warming
Climate Change
Barack Obama
Methane Gas
Business of Green: Storm Over the Chamber
Thomas Donohue, the United States Chamber of Commerce’s president, expressed hostility toward climate legislation, which led several businesses to resign in protest.
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Environment
Seas Are Struggling to Absorb Emissions
The Earth’s oceans have recently grown less efficient at sopping up carbon dioxide from fuel emissions, new research suggests.
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Environment
Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions
The sheer size of the airline industry’s emissions makes it hard to judge the effectiveness of carbon offset programs.
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Environment
Methane Gas
Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead
It is proving difficult to say exactly how customers’ voluntary payments for wind and solar power are actually used.
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Environment
Energy Efficiency
Green Grid
Florida
National Briefing | Southwest: Arizona: Suit Over Mine Near Canyon
Environmental groups are suing the Bureau of Land Management over its decision to allow a uranium mine to reopen north of the Grand Canyon.
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Environment
Arizona
Richard Land
Sierra Club
No ‘Choice of Evils’ Defense in Oil Lease Case, Judge Rules
A student who bid on federal oil and gas leases without the intent to pay will not be allowed to argue that he acted out of necessity to protect the environment.
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Environment
Chinese Solar Panel Firm to Open Plant in Arizona
The solar panel manufacturer, the first Chinese solar company to build a plant in the United States, will initially hire 75 workers.
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Environment
United States
Arizona
Energy Efficiency
China
Observatory: Changes in the Climate and a Windier Great Lake
Chalk up another effect of climate change: it’s getting windier over Lake Superior.
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Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
News Analysis: Obama Hobbled in Fight Against Global Warming
President Obama’s ambitions are limited by a Congress that is unwilling to move as far or as fast as he would like.
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Environment
Leaders Will Delay Deal on Climate Change
President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month.
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Environment
Climate Change
George Will
Singapore
United States
Barack Obama
World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: Emissions Cut Is Pledged
Brazil will try for a minimum reduction of 36 percent in its greenhouse gas emissions from projected levels in 2020, the government said Friday.
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Environment
Brazil
Global Warming
Methane Gas
Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
Global warming may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelt in the Pacific for 150 million years.
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Environment
Costa Rica
Global Warming
Navy’s Vieques Training May Be Tied to Health Risks
A federal agency reversed its conclusion that contamination posed no risks to residents in Puerto Rico.
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Environment
National Briefing | Environment: Pelican Removed from Endangered List
Interior Department officials are taking the brown pelican off the endangered species list, after a nearly four-decade struggle to keep the bird’s population afloat.
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Environment
Gordon Brown
L.I. Harvests May Signal a Comeback for Scallops
The recovery has resulted partly from dedicated efforts by scientists to rebuild the population that was decimated by surges in toxic algae known as brown tide.
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Environment
National Briefing | Environment: Harmful Levels of Mercury Are Found
About half of American lakes and reservoirs contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, a federal study said.
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Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Water Conservation
Agency Reduces Forecast for Oil Consumption
The revised forecast by the International Energy Agency came with a warning that governments must soon tackle climate change by curbing energy demand.
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Environment
Energy Efficiency
Oil Drilling
Methane Gas
Environmental Agency Warns 2 Staff Lawyers Over Video Criticizing Climate Policy
Two lawyers from the Environmental Protection Agency posted an online video that criticized the Obama administration’s climate change policy.
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Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Barack Obama
Climate Change
Methane Gas
Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash
The detritus of human life is collecting in a Pacific Ocean garbage patch that is believed to be twice the size of Texas.
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Environment
Texas
Water Conservation
A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move
Is it wise or foolish to assist with the migration of plants? Some experts see unintended consequences and others say it is worth the risk.
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Environment
Global Warming
The Caucus: No Clear Map for Democrats on Path to New Energy Plan
Skeptics say an energy bill capping carbon emissions will inevitably raise energy costs when struggling Americans cannot afford it.
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Environment
Energy Efficiency
United States
Barack Obama
Methane Gas
Green Inc. Column: Balancing Energy Needs and Material Hazards
Companies that make ultrathin solar panels using a toxic compound are watching nervously as the European Union considers expanding a ban on such materials in electrical components.
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Environment
Energy Efficiency
Green Grid
Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally
Peruvians pose what might be a final challenge to the ecosystem supported by the giant huarango tree, which is coveted as a source of charcoal and firewood.
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Environment
Peru
Creating a Landfill to Have Cleaner Air
Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream.
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Environment
Tennessee
Goma Journal: Deadly Gas Flows Add to a Lake’s List of Perils
The city of Goma and the surrounding area of eastern Congo hold many dangers, including rebellions, famine and a more mysterious threat: methane and carbon dioxide beneath Lake Kivu’s surface and along its shores.
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Environment
Democrats Push Climate Bill Through Panel Without G.O.P. Debate
The move suggested that President Obama and Democratic supporters of the bill will have serious problems assembling the votes needed to enact it when it comes to the Senate floor.
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Environment
Climate Change
Bill Ayers
Global Warming
United States
Barack Obama
Farmers Skirt Rules on Gene-Altered Crops, Report Says
As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules designed to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects.
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Environment
Colbert Report
National Briefing | South: Georgia: September Floods Analyzed
Scientists knew the recent flooding that enveloped parts of Georgia was rare but a new analysis is showing just how unusual the heavy rains were.
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Environment
Georgia
California Water Overhaul Caps Use
Lawmakers passed bills to address a protracted drought in the biggest water overhaul since the 1960s.
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Environment
Water Conservation
California
Groups Press U.S. and China on Carbon
Two research organizations want the two countries to put more money into developing use of carbon capture technology.
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Environment
China
United States
Global Warming
Methane Gas
Gore’s Dual Role in Spotlight: Advocate and Investor
Policies that would direct federal money to Al Gore’s investments in green technology have drawn accusations of profiteering.
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Environment
Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat
Researchers cannot agree whether the melting is attributable mainly to humanity’s role in global warming.
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Environment
Ice Age
Global Warming
Halt to Puerto Rico’s Northeastern Nature Preserve
Puerto Rico’s governor canceled the designation of part of the island’s northeastern coastline as a nature reserve, opening the door to large-scale development.
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Environment
Green Inc. Column: Tempers Flare in U.S. Over Chinese Involvement in Wind Farm Planned for Texas
An imbalance in jobs created and a desire for financing from U.S. stimulus funds had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation.
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Environment
Texas
Green Grid
China
Debate Flares on Limits of Nature and Commerce in Parks
A battle centered around a spot on the Point Reyes National Seashore has environmental groups squaring off against an oyster farmer.
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Environment
Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen
Even as a water crisis threatens the very survival of Yemen, farmers are turning increasingly to growing a narcotic called qat because it is the only way to make a profit.
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Environment
Yemen
Water Conservation
A Bid to Cut Emissions Looks Away From Coal
WASHINGTON — As Congress debates legislation to slow global warming by limiting emissions, engineers are tinkering with ways to capture and store carbon dioxide, the leading heat-trapping gas.
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Environment
Washington
Oil Drilling
Energy Efficiency
Giants’ Danny Clark Chose to Go Green With a Smart Car
Danny Clark, a 6-foot-2, 245-pound linebacker who plays for the Giants, eschewed the S.U.V.’s preferred by his peers for a two-door Smart car.
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Environment
E.U. Reaches Funding Deal on Climate Change
E.U. leaders on Friday offered to contribute money to a global fund to help developing countries tackle global warming hoping kick-start stalled talks.
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Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Elders Group Tries Bridging the Climatic Generation Gap
The rapid march of climate change up the global agenda has prompted a new, and often poignant, conversation between the generations.
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Environment
Global Warming
Denmark
Climate Change
Jimmy Carter
National Briefing | Midwest: Kansas: Buyout for a Small Town
The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to buyout the residents of the contaminated town of Treece.
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Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Kansas
China-U.S. Group Plans to Build Texas Wind Farm
The project marks the first time that China will export wind turbines into the United States.
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Environment
China
United States
Texas
Energy Efficiency
Europe Suggests Emissions Limits on Small Trucks
The European Commission proposed emissions limits for light trucks and vans Wednesday and said that carmakers would not be permitted to use them to increase production of sport utility vehicles.
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Environment
Energy Efficiency
Methane Gas
Gas Company Won’t Drill in New York Watershed
Chesapeake Energy Corporation said it did not plan to develop its leases in the Marcellus Shale formation in the watershed that serves New York City.
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Environment
Administration Steps Up Efforts on Climate Bill
The White House and its Senate allies intensified their campaign Tuesday in the face of determined opposition.
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Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Energy Efficiency
National Briefing | West: California: Leader for Geological Survey
Marcia McNutt, a former president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, will take over as the new director of the United States Geological Survey.
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Environment
United States
California
By Degrees: To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates
New labels listing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of foods are appearing on some grocery items and restaurant menus around the country.
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Environment
Global Warming
Food Shortage
Sweden
Energy Efficiency
Methane Gas
Room for Debate: Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
What will drive the next Green Revolution?
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