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1. Climate bill in doubt as Democrats delay action
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U.S. Senate Democrats said on Thursday they will wait until September at the earliest to take up broad climate-change legislation, a potentially fatal blow to the White House push to curb greenhouse gases.  ...

2. Western Climate Initiative offers cap-and-trade (AP)
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AP - A coalition of seven western states and three Canadian provinces on Tuesday offered its most detailed strategy yet for controlling greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change, saying they hope ...

3. Obama vows to fight on for climate change bill (AFP)
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AFP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to fight on for a climate change bill, despite the collapse of US Senate legislation designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.  ...

4. Climate bill in doubt as Democrats delay action
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U.S. Senate Democrats said on Thursday they will wait until September at the earliest to take up broad climate-change legislation, a potentially fatal blow to the White House push to curb greenhouse gases.  ...

5. Nations pledge clean energy amid treaty stalemate (AFP)
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AFP - Nations pledged to work together to improve the efficiency of energy-guzzlers from televisions to cars, showing practical cooperation on climate change despite a deadlock on sealing a treaty.

6. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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The reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by major sources of these pollutants is gaining momentum. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing ...

7. The aerosols conundrum
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Just how much warmer Earth will become as a result of greenhouse-gas emissions — and how much it has warmed since preindustrial times — is much debated. In a 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

8. British report clears climate scientists of exaggeration
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... Copenhagen and helped sour the public's belief in the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for heating up the planet. ...

9. Kyoto may push factories to pollute more: U.N. report
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(Reuters) - A Kyoto Protocol scheme may be encouraging projects to emit more greenhouse gases because of incentives to earn carbon offsets from subsequently destroying these, a U.N. report said. The projects ...

10. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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The reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by major sources of these pollutants is gaining momentum. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing ...

11. Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
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Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the ...

12. MIT Study: Natural Gas to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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With lower carbon emissions than coal, natural gas has often been called the "bridge to a low-carbon future," a moniker validated by a new analysis from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ...

13. Telepresence Could Save Business $19 Billion by 2020
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... tons in total – the greenhouse gas equivalent of removing more than one million passenger vehicles from the road for one year – and achieve total economy-wide financial benefits of almost $19 billion, ...

14. Thin films show surprising reactivity
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... releasing greenhouse gases or other pollutants, and so are considered a promising alternative approach for generating electricity. And unlike batteries, which need to be recharged in a time-consuming process, ...

15. Wind Integration: Does It Reduce Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
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Many claim that wind generation is beneficial because it reduces pollution emissions and does not emit carbon dioxide.  This isn’t necessarily the case. The following article explains a phenomena called ...

16. Monitoring the Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in the Earth
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Global Warming is caused by several factors such as the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. One solution to the problem is to capture the carbon dioxide before it enters ...

17. POET cellulosic ethanol cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 111 percent over gasoline
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Ethanol produced by Project LIBERTY, POET's first planned commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, will reduce carbon emissions by 111 percent over gasoline, an independent lifecycle analysis shows.

18. Monitoring the Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in the Earth
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Global Warming is caused by several factors such as the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. One solution to the problem is to capture the carbon dioxide before it enters ...

19. Senate Rejects Move To Block Greenhouse Gas Rules
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The Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters. ...

20. Senate Rejects Move To Block Greenhouse Gas Rules
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... regulating greenhouse gases. That agency's authority and its plan to do so next year are seen by supporters of climate change legislation as pressure for Congress to act first. The EPA measure, by Alaska ...

21. Earth's Climate Used to Weigh Chances of Alien Life (SPACE.com)
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SPACE.com - Greenhouse gases have a bad reputation because of the role they're playing in global warming on Earth today.  However, scientists say we also owe our lives to greenhouse gases because they ...

22. Climate talks open in Bonn
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...  The Copenhagen summit last year struggled to overcome suspicion on how to share global effort to curb greenhouse gases under a new deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after 2012.  ...

23. NRC Reports: United States Should Act Now to Cut Greenhouse Gases
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... States should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to develop an adaptation plan. ...

24. Clean Up the Trucks
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About a year ago the President and car company CEOs, announced the first Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars and light trucks that took into account greenhouse gas emissions as a factor. ...

25. Huge air pollution study under way in California (AP)
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AP - Instrument-laden aircraft and a research ship equipped to sniff the atmosphere and ocean have joined land-based monitoring stations in a huge field study of air pollution and climate change in California. ...

26. ‘Efficiency Forward'
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... and the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cooper said. Both of those buildings are slated to open within the next year. In addition to MIT Efficiency Forward, the Institute is seeking to reduce greenhouse ...

27. Germany, Norway give $1.5B to fight deforestation (AP)
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AP - Germany and Norway will pledge $1.5 billion to fight deforestation, blamed for releasing some of the carbon dioxide contributing to global warming, Norway's prime minister said Wednesday on the eve ...

28. President Obama Orders Fuel Efficiency Standards for Trucks
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President Barack Obama has directed the U.S. Environmental Agency and U.S. Department of Transportation to create the first national policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas emissions ...

29. Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'
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...  An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must be replaced by a drive towards low-cost green energy, says a group of academics and lobbyists ...

30. Tax Fraud Plagues Carbon Trading Program
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... people were arrested near London for not paying tax on the sale of carbon permits, for a total of £38 million (about U.S. $63 million). The taxes were levied as part of the European Union Greenhouse Gas ...