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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.
The discovery of an unauthorized death mask adds one more chapter to the saga of World War II Marine Ira Hayes.
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.
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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.
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.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Republic of Ecuador asked a U.S. judge to block Chevron Corp. from pursuing arbitration in a $27 billion environmental lawsuit against the oil producer.
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.
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.
The stunt by Nepalese ministers was meant to highlight the danger global warming poses to its glaciers.
Israel has closed the Nahal Oz crossing into Gaza for security reasons. Host to the sole oil and gas terminal serving Gaza, it's also the site of several recent militant attacks.
Despite the brouhaha over stolen e-mails from the University of East Anglia, the science of climate change is well enough established by now that we can move on to the essential question: what's the damage going to be?
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- An expensive fish kill that netted just one Asian carp in a Chicago ship canal was worth it to protect Lake Michigan from the invasive fish, officials said.
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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The global economic downturn shouldn’t slow policy makers’ efforts to make companies and households pay for the damage caused by carbon emissions, International Monetary Fund staff members said in a report.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose after the U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in November, signaling that fuel demand in the world’s biggest energy-consuming country will rebound.
MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Oil flow through a section of the Druzhba pipeline in western Russia resumed Friday following the closure from an oil spill, pipeline monopoly Transneft said.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Officials from BP said they discovered another leak from a pipeline in Alaska as crews struggle to clean up a separate oil-contaminated site.
ESSEN, Germany, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Parts of the Kyoto Protocol that let companies offset their emissions with renewable projects in developing nations should be kept, German utility RWE said.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson may introduce temporary bans on cars and trucks on some of the city’s busiest roads during days when air pollution is at its most dangerous level.
The discovery of a plaster death mask adds one more chapter to the odyssey of Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes.
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