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1. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

2. EPA to Phase in CO2 emissions permits/BACT for mid-sized sources
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The Obama administration will give small businesses a break on coming carbon dioxide emissions rules but big emitters like coal-fired power plants will face a crack-down, U.S. Environmental Protection ...

3. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

4. Methane Causes Vicious Cycle In Global Warming
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Carbon dioxide usually gets most of the blame for global warming, but a dramatic increase in methane gas emissions is worrying scientists. Global warming is causing the world's wetlands to produce more ...

5. EU pushes for deeper carbon emissions cuts (AFP)
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AFP - The EU on Saturday stood by its offer to move to a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 despite the failure of last month's UN climate summit to secure a legally-binding deal.  ...

6. EU pushes for deeper carbon emissions cuts (AFP)
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AFP - The EU remained firm Saturday on its push to move to a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 despite the failure of last month's UN climate summit to secure a legally-binding deal.  ...

7. Carbon Dioxide Recovery and Use
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The Middle East's first carbon dioxide recovery plant has been opened at the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company. This is also one of the first in the world to successfully recycle carbon dioxide air ...

8. ND Rep. wants to block EPA carbon dioxide regs (AP)
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AP - U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy believes lawmakers suffering "buyer's remorse" over the House's approval of carbon dioxide limits will support his legislation to block the Environmental Protection Agency from ...

9. The Lawyers Win in Global Warming
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Carbon dioxide air emissions is one of the big issues in global warming debate. However Before you start controlling by putting the carbon in the ground, you first have to put lawyers in a room to argue. ...

10. The Lawyers Win in Global Warming
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Carbon dioxide air emissions is one of the big issues in global warming debate. However Before you start controlling by putting the carbon in the ground, you first have to put lawyers in a room to argue. ...

11. Lawsuit over New York carbon auction settled (AP)
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AP - New York officials have settled a lawsuit with power plant owners that challenged their legal authority to auction allowances required for carbon dioxide emissions. ...

12. EIA: U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Grow 8.7% by 2030
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In the absence of new policies, the U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use will increase from 5,814 million metric tons in 2008 to 6,320 million metric tons in 2035, according to the early ...

13. Endangering the Economy in an Attempt to Pass Cap-and-Trade
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For years Congress has struggled to pass legislation to regulate carbon dioxide emissions because Americans know that the regulation of carbon dioxide emission is a tax on energy. Today, the Obama Administration ...

14. Fossil Energy Still King in 2035–Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rise with Fossil Fuel Growth
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Click here for a PDF version of this post. The United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen isn’t stopping the Energy Information Administration (EIA) from forecasting an increase in carbon ...

15. Climate Change Trends: Carbon Emissions Giants
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Right now, 10 countries — including the U.S., China and Russia — are responsible for 80 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. The United States is the world's second largest emitter ...

16. EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that greenhouse gas pollution is a threat to human health. That finding paves the way for the agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from factories, ...

17. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
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... concentrations of the six key well-mixed greenhouse gases--carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)--in ...

18. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
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... concentrations of the six key well-mixed greenhouse gases--carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)--in ...

19. UK University to probe integrity of climate data (AP)
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AP - A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.

20. India to slow carbon emissions growth by 20-25 pct (AP)
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AP - India pledged Thursday to significantly slow the growth of its carbon emissions over the next decade, becoming the last major emitting country to announce a climate change policy before a U.N. summit ...

21. Can the Sun Help Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel?
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U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels, a reverse combustion process that may emerge ...

22. Can the Sun Help Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel?
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U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels, a reverse combustion process that may emerge ...

23. EPA: Fuel Economy for New Vehicles Rises for Fifth Straight Year
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... has steadily increased and carbon dioxide emissions have steadily decreased since 2004. ...

24. Obama To Outline U.S. Goals At Climate Summit
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President Obama will commit the U.S. to a goal of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade at a climate conference in Copenhagen next month. His goal is to cut carbon dioxide emissions by ...

25. Can the Sun Help Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel?
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U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels, a reverse combustion process that may emerge ...

26. Oceans Absorb Less Carbon Dioxide as Marine Systems Change
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The oceans are by far the largest carbon sink in the world. Some 93 percent of carbon dioxide is stored in algae, vegetation, and coral under the sea. But oceans are not able to absorb all of the carbon ...

27. Financial Crisis Is 'Green' For The Environment
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New studies are projecting that carbon dioxide emissions — greenhouse gas emissions — will decrease for the year 2009. That is thanks to the global recession. But the reprieve is small and ...

28. CO2 Emissions are not Changing the Ratio of Airborne CO2 to that taken up by the Oceans and Plants
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...  The study shows that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about ...

29. New report: Pollution down in New Hampshire (AP)
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AP - A new report says carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in New Hampshire have declined by 14 percent between 2004 and 2007, reducing a decades-long trend. ...

30. AEP and Alstrom to Trap Carbon Dioxide Emissions from a Coal Plant
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A project to capture and store the carbon emissions from a coal plant in West Virginia was recently commissioned, although it will only capture a small percentage of the emissions from the plant. DOE ...