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Time Magazine - Mon Dec 7, 6:39 pm ET
The controversy over hacked emails from the world's leading climate scientists continues to roil. Here's what the emails say about the reality of global warming.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 7:17 pm ET
Delegates to a pivotal climate conference welcomed an Obama administration move Monday to regulate greenhouse gases under existing clean air law, but said they still expect more.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 11:22 pm ET
The United States said it had seized the climate initiative with a regulatory shift that labels greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, as a landmark conference entered a second day Tuesday.
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Scientific American - Mon Dec 7, 2:48 pm ET
To be or not to be? That is the question. Will 192 world governments agree in the next two weeks on a framework to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and thereby combat climate change? Or will they dither and divide at the Copenhagen climate summit , as they did with previous efforts, including the ineffectual Kyoto Protocol ? [More]
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USA Today - Tue Dec 8, 1:57 am ET
An EPA ruling that greenhouse gases threaten public health gives the Obama administration power to regulate emissions that feed global warming.
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McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 6:47 pm ET
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that global warming pollution endangered the health and welfare of Americans and must be reduced, a move that seemed timed to signal that the U.S. is serious about joining an international bid to reduce the risks of damaging climate change.
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Politico via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:01 am ET
COPENHAGEN – The 20,000 or so participants in the international climate change conference here begin Day 2 of their proceedings with clarity about just one thing.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 33 minutes ago
A big meeting in Copenhagen. A cap-and-trade bill in Congress. And now, a determination by the Environmental Protection Agency that global warming pollution is a threat to public health — a move that clears the way for the first-ever federal regulations targeting climate-changing emissions.
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CNN - Mon Dec 7, 11:44 pm ET
December 8, 2009
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 11:29 pm ET
The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health.
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Time Magazine - 1 hour 25 minutes ago
The EPA finalized its finding that greenhouse gases, including CO2, pose a threat to human health and welfare -- a signal that the U.S. is ready to regulate carbon emissions.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 2:39 pm ET
The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 11:13 pm ET
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday cleared the way for regulation of greenhouse gases without new laws passed by Congress, reflecting President Barack Obama's commitment to act on climate change as a major summit opened in Copenhagen.
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CNN - Mon Dec 7, 11:05 pm ET
The United States and China have not offered to go far enough to combat climate change, a top European Union official said as a major international summit on the subject opened Monday.
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CNN - Mon Dec 7, 8:17 pm ET
A rise in skepticism among Americans over global warming is mostly due to changes among Republicans, according to a new national poll.
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Enterprise Security Today - 2 hours 0 minutes ago
E-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit appeared to show some of world's leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work.
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New York Times - Mon Dec 7, 7:12 am ET
The furor over researchers’ stolen e-mail shows that doubt about human-driven climate change persists even as scientists thought that battle had been won.
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USA Today - Mon Dec 7, 12:43 pm ET
The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
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CNN - Mon Dec 7, 9:16 pm ET
On the opening day of the global climate summit in Denmark, a key U.N. official said she is optimistic that there will be a binding international treaty next year to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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CNN Money - Mon Dec 7, 3:40 pm ET
Environmental regulators declare greenhouse gasses a threat to human health as global leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss ways to combat climate change.