time.com - 1/24/2009
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Time Magazine: The Bush White House was so profoundly hostile to action on global warming that during its eight-year tenure, one could have qualified as a "green progressive" simply by asserting that climate change was real. In 2007, under these circumstances -- perhaps because of them ...
ejcc.org - 1/30/2009
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WHO is climate change affecting the most? Global
warming, or climate change, is fundamentally an issue of...
human rights and environmental justice. With rising temperatures, human lives—particularly in people of color, low-income, and Indigenous ...
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DrumBeat: January 24, 2009
The Oil Drum —
... claimed on Friday that a new era regarding coal-fired power plants had arrived with the Obama administration after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turned back South Dakota's approval of a big coal-fired power plant in that state because of pollution concerns.
"EPA is signaling that it is back to enforcing long-standing legal requirements fairly and consistently nationwide," said Bruce Nilles, head of the Sierra Club's effort to stop coal power plants.
Raising the Bar on Fighting Climate Change
The Bush White House was ...
Gore in the Senate: A More Receptive Audience Now
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... developing nations like China and Brazil are ready to fall in line. The Kyoto agreement gave developing countries a free pass to keep emitting carbon - a key reason the accord failed in the U.S. Senate - but Copenhagen will be different, because the world is now different. "The scientific consensus is far beyond what it was 10 years ago," said Gore. "This is a planetary emergency." ( Read "Raising the Bar on Fighting Climate Change." ) Gore's position was ...
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