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Amchitka: The concert that launched Greenpeace

The Star-Ledger - Thu Dec 3, 5:43 pm ET

Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and others played the 1970 Greenpeace benefit concert in Vancouver.

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ADB's 700 million dollar global warming fight fund
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 1:02 am ET
The Asian Development Bank said Friday it would invest 700 million dollars to help member countries adapt to climate change and develop renewable energy technologies.
Across the USA News from every state
USA Today - Fri Dec 4, 12:59 am ET
News from every state
China's costly climate goals: report
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:56 am ET
China will need to invest up to 30 billion dollars a year to meet its goal of curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the state press said Friday, citing an academic study.
India Announces Plan to Slow Emissions
New York Times - Fri Dec 4, 12:55 am ET
Leaders have refused to sign any pact that would inhibit the country’s growth, but India is considered especially vulnerable to the problems attributed to global warming.
Hot water for the Twalas, hot debate at Copenhagen
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:51 am ET
The shopping list includes wind farms, seawalls and even real estate — new homelands for flooded-out islanders. And poor countries want to present the bill to the rich at next week's climate talks in Copenhagen.
Maldives seeks climate summit cash to survive
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:49 am ET
The president of the Maldives has said that he would use the UN climate summit in Copenhagen to appeal for immediate cash to fend off the rising sea levels that threaten his atoll nation.
Thursday's Sports Transactions
USA Today - Fri Dec 4, 12:34 am ET
Thursday's Sports Transactions
Iwo Jima flag raiser's body 'was never sent to rest'
USA Today - Fri Dec 4, 12:13 am ET
The discovery of a plaster death mask adds one more chapter to the odyssey of Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes.
In Marin County, a Public Fight Over Private Control of Sewage
New York Times - Fri Dec 4, 12:13 am ET
Communities in the Bay Area wrestle with whether private-public partnerships in municipal services make financial and environmental sense during tough economic times.
2010 Subaru Legacy gets an impressive remake
USA Today - Fri Dec 4, 12:12 am ET
Almost everything about the thoroughly remade 2010 Subaru Legacy sedan is impressive.
Obama Signals Support for Weatherization, Infrastructure Plans
Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:01 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama signaled he’ll push for initiatives on energy efficiency and infrastructure spending as ways to spur job growth.
India offers plan to slow pace of carbon emissions by 2020
Washington Post - Fri Dec 4, 12:00 am ET
NEW DELHI -- India on Thursday offered a plan to unilaterally slow the pace of its carbon emissions by 2020 and assured lawmakers that the offer does not amount to a sellout of national interests.
OMB official questions pollution proposal
Washington Post - Fri Dec 4, 12:00 am ET
An economist at the Office of Management and Budget who has battled environmentalists for years on issues such as climate change and smog has raised questions about the economic impact of a proposed new rule on air pollution, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Have the greens failed?
Politico via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 11:55 pm ET
On May 3, 2007, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski realized that the plan was working.
Nepalese Government Holds Meeting Near Mount Everest (Update2)
Bloomberg - 2 hours 31 minutes ago
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet issued a declaration on climate change after an outdoor meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest, in a region where shrinking glaciers threaten rivers essential to development in China, India and Pakistan.
Obama calls for new ideas for creating jobs
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 11:43 pm ET
President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation," including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.
Cities promote scooter commuting
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 11:36 pm ET
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle and Cincinnati are among cities that have recently created special parking areas for scooters.
EPA orders hearings on mine's water discharge permit
Arizona Daily Sun - 31 minutes ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a water discharge permit for a controversial coal mining operation in northern Arizona pending public hearings.
University probes accuracy of leaked climate e-mails
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 11:34 pm ET
A university that the U.N. has relied on for evidence of global warming said it would probe whether data was fudged to support warming claims.
US court blocks huge gold mine project in Nevada
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 5:55 pm ET
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked construction of a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada that critics say would harm the environment and ruin a mountain several tribes consider sacred.

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