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AFP - Environmental experts dismissed an agreement from Asia Pacific leaders setting "aspirational" goals on climate change as an empty gesture that may actually undermine efforts to halt global warming....
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Sep 09, 2007
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info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay.com: none given), Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay.com: A U.S. carbon tax, not government subsidies, should be used to spur investment in nuclear power, says The Economist. In its "Leaders" editorial section, the UK-based financial publication states that concerns over global warming and energy security may well spawn a new era for nuclear power, but that tax-payers should...
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Sep 09, 2007
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Unlike her neighbors', Rachael Paschal Osborn's yard isn't an expanse of green grass meticulously fertilized and watered on schedule by...
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Sep 09, 2007
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info@ecologicalinternet.org (Sunday Times: John-Paul Flintoff), Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunday Times: 'The world my children will live in will be very different," says Zac Goldsmith, father of three, staring into the middle distance. "The way we travel will change and the way we build and communicate. But I think the changes will be good. I'm optimistic for the first time...
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Sep 09, 2007
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info@ecologicalinternet.org (Houston Chronicle: Brett Clanton), Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Houston Chronicle: A few years ago, it looked like we would all be driving pollution-free hydrogen-powered vehicles someday very soon. The signs, after all, were everywhere. Automakers debuted concept vehicles with fuel cells under the hood. Investors poured money into hydrogen startups. News stories abounded about the new "hydrogen economy." Even...
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Sep 09, 2007
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AMHERST, N.H. - In an era when going green is all the rage, one man's effort to harness wind energy has run up against a powerful opponent: zoning laws....
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Sep 09, 2007
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Washington Post: CONGRESS IS back, and its agenda is crammed with contentious issues that demand lawmakers' attention. Iraq and the appropriations bills that keep the government running are just two of them. But at some point the House and Senate will have to reconcile their respective energy bills passed this summer....
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Sep 09, 2007
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AFP - A grouping of former heads of state will present a plan to G8 environment ministers meeting here Tuesday aimed at breaking the impasse between rich and poor countries over global warming....
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Sep 09, 2007
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The mayor of Missoula, Mont., is the latest person to discover just how unpopular coal plants have become. In early August, Mayor John Engen, a Democrat, won City Council support to buy electricity from a new coal-fired plant scheduled to begin operation in 2011. He said the city government would save...
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Sep 09, 2007
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Observer: Australian Prime Minister John Howard called it 'a new international consensus'. Green groups called it a 'failure' without binding targets. The first day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit ended yesterday in Sydney with 21 Pacific Rim leaders agreeing to curb global warming by improving energy use and expanding...
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