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New York Kills Coal With New Carbon Emissions Standards
New York environmental regulators recently adopted carbon dioxide emissions limits for new and expanded power plants that make it nearly impossible to build a new coal unit in the state, reports Scott DiSavino at Reuters news.There are no coal plants … Continue reading
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US Coal Replaced By Clean Energy and Methane
US coal use is falling fast, and predicted to go below 40 percent this year, as electric utilities switch to cheaper natural gas and clean energy, reports Jonathan Fahey at the Associated Press. New Environmental Protection Agency pollution standards mean … Continue reading
Geo-engineering Is Highly Risky, Better Solutions Exist
Geo-engineering, schemes that massively manipulate the planet’s atmosphere to cool global warming, entails great risks because some of the results could be wildly unpredictable and destructive to planetary life, reports Michael Specter at the New Yorker. British geo-engineering researcher Hugh … Continue reading
Burning Diesel, A Fossil Fuel, Causes Lung Cancer – WHO
Diesel engine fumes can cause lung cancer and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic, mustard gas, tobacco and alcohol, World Health Organisation experts said recently, reports Kate Kelland at World Environment News. The experts, who said … Continue reading
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Pace of Global Warming Accelerating Dramatically in US
A new report published by Climate Central, The Heat is On, shows that the pace of global warming in the US has accelerated dramatically in the past 40 years. It coincided with the time when the effect of greenhouse gases … Continue reading
Congress Woefully Behind on Climate Change Debate
While Congress debates whether Earth is warming and if humans caused it, most climate scientists are far past that, and instead are focused on how fast and how badly climate change will evolve, reports Katherine Bagley at InsideClimate News. And … Continue reading
Congress Will Kill Jobs By Not Subsidizing Wind Industry – Obama
President Obama recently urged Congress to extend tax incentives that benefit renewable energy companies, saying failure to do so would put thousands of jobs in jeopardy, reports Jared Favole of the Dow Jones Newswires. The wind industry in Iowa has … Continue reading
Land Reform Key to Saving Forests, Fighting Climate Change – Study
Ensuring that forest dwellers have rights over their land is vital for slowing deforestation that may be causing up to a fifth of the world’s emissions of greenhouse gases, says a new report by the nonprofit organization Rights and Resources … Continue reading
Green Button Initiative Gains Nationwide Support
A White House initiative, the Green Button, encourages utilities to share information on energy usage with residential and business consumers at the click of a button, and the Green Button is attracting a growing number of utilities nationwide, reports Katherine … Continue reading
US Budget Cuts Monitoring of Climate Change
Earth-observing systems operated by the United States have entered a steep decline, imperiling the nation’s monitoring of weather, natural disasters and climate change, a National Research Council report warned recently, reports Rachel Nuwer at the New York Times. Long-running and … Continue reading
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