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On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been hectoring the magazine for weeks over its plans to partner with Big Oil for this forum, has asked the Senate to investigate whether the event was in violation of congressional rules.
UN human rights experts warned three days ahead of a key climate summit in Copenhagen that a weak outcome of the negotiations could endanger human rights with poor communities the most vulnerable.
Attorneys for theme park operator Six Flags Inc. and a group of its noteholders squared off in Delaware bankruptcy court Friday over the company's Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
When the final votes are counted, it's likely the black political machine that integrated Atlanta's City Hall — and kept it that way for four decades — will have pulled through one more time to deliver a fifth consecutive black mayor.
The Boilermakers look to continue their strong start to the season as they host Buffalo Saturday afternoon.
An international team of scientists has developed a new method of measuring the absorption of CO2 by the oceans that could become an "early-warning system" for climate change.
A sobering ad campaign hits Copenhagen, ahead of the pivotal 2009 climate summit. Next week, the 15th U.N. Climate Change Congress convenes in Copenhagen--and the world leaders and functionaries passing through the airport might be met with a bracing message: A new series of ads, created by Arc Communications for Greenpeace, which depicts aged world leaders ruing what might have been, if they'd ...
NEW YORK -- The nation's only government-mandated carbon market continues to suffer from weak pricing for emission allowances...
A pair of new projects will test the integration of large-scale solar fields into coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, a...
A sweeping new White House policy aimed at ousting special interests from federal advisory panels might sweep registered lobb...
A young giant panda who became a major draw after his birth at Washington's National Zoo will return to China early next year.
The Republic of Ecuador has sued the Chevron Corp. as the two battle over liability for pollution in the Amazon rainforest.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Friday it will spend $564 million to speed up construction of 19 biorefineries that will turn agriculture and forest waste into diesel fuel. The list of projects:
The discovery of a plaster death mask adds one more chapter to the odyssey of Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes.
World politicians will toss around the best ideas they have to get us out of the climate change mess we're in when they meet at the U.N. Copenhagen summit next week. Many people have suggested novel ways to combat the water pollution, smog, mounds of trash and global warming facing Earth. Here are some of the wackier (or at least, wackier-sounding) solutions ever proposed to solve Earth's ...
Nepalese ministers equipped with oxygen tanks battled freezing temperatures to meet in the shadow of Mount Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
IMF experts said Friday the global economy stood to benefit from action against climate change but warned that aggressive curbs on emissions could jeopardize the recovery without careful planning.
Pollution and climate change cost Lebanon more than half a million dollars (330 million euros) a year, the environment minister said on Friday ahead of the UN climate talks.
A polar bear sculpted out of an 11-tonne block of ice will be unveiled in Copenhagen Saturday, then left to melt to raise awareness about global warming during the UN climate summit, organisers said.
The goalkeepers at next year's World Cup should consider their geography before getting on the field. A study by Adidas shows altitude will have an impact of up to 5 percent on a ball's speed. That means a 20-yard free kick during the final at Soccer City in high-altitude Johannesburg will reach the goal line 5 percent faster than it would at Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban, which is at sea...
Taiwan plans to boost its use of solar panels by a factor of 200 over the next decade and a half in an effort to increase clean energy, a ranking official said Friday.
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