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As world leaders gathered in Copenhagen Monday for the start of the United Nations climate conference, leaked e-mails from an internationally-renowned climate research unit threaten to overshadow the talks.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that greenhouse gases spewed by power plants, oil refineries and vehicles constitute a public health threat, a verdict that positions the government to set new limits on global-warming emissions.
Ford Turner Paula Sellars of Camp Hill, left, and her granddaughter, Amanda Montalvo of Susquehanna Twp., are concerned about climate change. When it comes to the environment, Montalvo said, "What price are we willing to pay?"
The United States has all the tools it needs to replace its old coal energy economy and drastically cut greenhouse emissions. So what's missing? Political will — and money.
EPA announcement on greenhouse-gas emissions could lead to costly new rules.
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Opening the door to possible broad new federal regulation on U.S. power plants, heavy industry and automobiles, the Obama administration on Monday officially declared that greenhouse gases produced by burning coal and oil are a danger to public health. The finding is a key step in a legal process that would allow the EPA to act on its own authority '” without further action by Congress '” to ...
World leaders will gather next week to hash out a new game plan for tackling climate change. Learn what they hope to accomplish—and why experts are saying humankind has a "very narrow window of opportunity" to act.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday he is urging European countries to commit to deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, amid EU division over the issue, as crunch climate talks continue.
As the climate talks progress, we can be sure that many of the most powerful nations will use a whole range of tactics to avoid making the necessary commitments to reduce emissions.
The decade of the 2000s is very likely the warmest decade in the modern record, a global meteorological agency said.
The UN's top weather expert warned Tuesday that the world is in its hottest decade on record as climate negotiators plunged into talks seeking a historic deal on cutting carbon emissions.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- This decade is set to be the warmest on record though 2009 won’t be the hottest year, meteorologists said today, lending fuel to both skeptics and supporters of a global warming agreement being negotiated in Copenhagen.
The NASA scientist who accused agency administrators and the Bush White House of manipulating public releases of climate data says he is disappointed that President Obama hasn't taken more action on the issue.
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.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicted the Copenhagen summit on climate change will produce an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions that will be effective immediately.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Evocations of Judgment Day were an undercurrent in speeches and materials on opening day in Copenhagen.
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