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  • President Obama Will Go To Copenhagen & Emission Targets

    Nov 25: With just 11 days before the start of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP15), the White House announced that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark on December 9 to participate in the conference. According to a release, the President [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:52pm EST

  • The Controversy Over Hacked Emails On Climate Change

    Nov 23: On November 20 it was reported that hundreds of emails were illegally obtained by hacking the server at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in England. The emails have been posted on the Internet and many climate change opponents are claiming they reveal [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:15pm EST

  • Investor Groups Petition SEC Regarding Climate Risk Disclosure

    Nov 23: A supplemental petition submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission by a broad coalition of 20 institutional investors explains that "it’s impossible for investors to adequately assess the risk to their investment money if companies don’t tell them how much climate change and its impacts might affect their" [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:22pm EST

  • UN Predicts Copenhagen Accord & Treaty Within 6 Months

    Nov 19: November 2009 – With just 17 days left before the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Yvo de Boer predicted success for a framework accord including "specific reduction targets from the United States, the only hold-out" [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:41pm EST

  • U.S. & China Sign Memo On Collecting Reliable GHG Data

    Nov 19: In addition to other climate change and energy agreements with China signed this week [See WIMS 11/17/09], U.S. EPA and China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have also formalized a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) to enhance capacity to address climate change (i.e. greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:43pm EST

  • Hearing On International Aspects Of Global Climate Change

    Nov 17: The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, Chaired by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), held a hearing "to explore the international aspects of global climate change." Witnesses included representatives from the Council on Foreign Relations; Climate Advisers; Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Carnegie Endowment for [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:36pm EST

  • Copenhagen Climate Deal Shifts To Keeping The Pressure On

    Nov 16: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to seize the opportunity presented at the climate change conference in Copenhagen to clinch a "political" agreement that will help chart the way forward on a new "legally" binding pact to combat global warming. Ban said, “Opportunity is knocking. It is [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:58am EST

  • Copenhagen Climate Agreement Expectations Taking Shape

    Nov 16: The Danish government website for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, December 7-18, 2009, now just 20 days away, and Bloomberg news are both reporting that "What has been evident for some time was confirmed this weekend by world leaders gathered in Singapore." [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:37am EST

  • OIG: Unregistered Pesticides May Re-Enter U.S. Food Chain

    Nov 12: The U.S. EPA Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report entitled, EPA Needs to Comply with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and Improve Its Oversight of Exported Never-Registered Pesticides (No. 10-P-0026, November 10, 2009. OIG initiated the review to evaluate whether EPA has properly implemented [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • UN Head Ban Ki-moon Urges Congressional Action On Climate Change

    Nov 11: Just 24 days before the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, December 7-18, 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Congressional leaders in Washington, DC to make a continuing pitch to "seal the deal" by enacting a global climate change [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:47pm EST

  • Major Study Shows Toxic Chemicals In Fish Tissue Nationwide

    Nov 10: A new EPA study shows concentrations of toxic chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in nearly all 50 U.S. states. For the first time, EPA is able to estimate the percentage of lakes and reservoirs nationwide that have fish containing potentially harmful levels of chemicals such [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:37pm EST

  • House Passes Chemical & Water Security Act (H.R. 2868)

    Nov 6: The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 230 to 193 the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2868) [See WIMS 10/23/09]. According to a release from the Energy and Commerce Committee, the bill strengthens security at America's chemical plants and drinking water and wastewater' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:12pm EST

  • Barcelona UNFCCC Climate Change Talks Breakdown


    Nov. 6: The last negotiating session before the historic UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December concluded Friday in Barcelona, Spain. More than 4,500 participants, including delegates from 181 countries, took part in the Barcelona UN Climate Change Talks. The UN Climate Change Conference [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:31pm EST

  • Senate EPW Committee Passes S.1733 Without Republicans

    Nov 5: Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), again made a brief appearance as the only Republican before the Committee and again reiterated the same Republican request for a complete economic analysis of S. 1733 before proceeding with the scheduled [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:26pm EST

  • Republicans Continue Boycott Of Kerry-Boxer (S. 1733) Markup

    Nov 4: Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), made a brief appearance as the only Republican before the Committee and reiterated the same Republican request for a complete economic analysis of S. 1733 before proceeding with the scheduled markup of [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:01pm EST

  • Republicans Plea For Delay & Walk Out Of Kerry-Boxer Markup

    Nov 3: Late November 2, 2009, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, responded to a letter from six Ranking Members of Senate Committees (Murkowski, Chambliss, Grassley, Lugar, Hutchison, and Inhofe) regarding analysis of S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:31pm EST

  • Barcelona Climate Talks Begin; Last Stop Until Copenhagen

    Nov 2: The resumed ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the resumed seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) began today (November 2) and will continue [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:57pm EST

  • Kerry-Boxer (S. 1733) Hearing & Testimony Guide

    Oct 30: Following three days of extensive testimony in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), on the Chairman's Mark of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733, i.e. Kerry-Boxer bill), the mark up by the full Committee is scheduled' [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:15am EDT

  • Deutsche Bank Global Climate Change Policy Tracker

    Oct 26: Deutsche Bank has released a report it calls, Global Climate Change Policy Tracker: An Investor's Assessment (Climate Tracker), that provides investors with an analysis of climate change policies and assigns a risk rating to 109 countries, states and regions based on key government mandates' [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:45pm EDT

  • House Hearing On IT Procurement And E-Waste Disposal

    Oct 27: The House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement, Chaired by Representative Diane Watson (D-CA) held a hearing entitled, IT Procurement and Disposal: Application of the Federal Government’s Green Policies in the Life Cycle Management of IT Assets. Witnesses testifying included: Rep. [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:22pm EDT

  • President Announces $3.4 Billion In Smart Grid Investments


    Oct 27: Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:12pm EDT

  • Chairman's Mark & Economic Analysis For Kerry-Boxer (S. 1733) Bill

    Oct 23: Late Friday, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released the text of the Chairman's Mark of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733, i.e. Kerry-Boxer bill). Senator Boxer said, "We've reached another milestone as we move" [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:56am EDT

  • House Hearing On Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

    Oct 22: The House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming, Chaired by Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) held a hearing entitled, "Building U.S. Resilience to Global Warming Impacts." The hearing focused on the consequences of global warming in the United States which the Committee indicated "will be significant even" [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:44am EDT

  • India & China Sign Climate Pact In Advance Of Copenhagen

    Oct 21: The Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of India have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Cooperation on Addressing Climate Change. The MOA was signed in India by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests Shri Jairam Ramesh and Xie Zhenhua, Vice Chairman, [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:51pm EDT

  • UNFCCC Releases Latest Industrialized Countries GHG Data

    Oct 21: The UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany has released the latest data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrialized countries increased in 2007, which continued the upward trend of the previous six years. According to a release, data submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • NAS Report Estimates $120+ Billion/Yr. In Hidden Costs Of Energy

    Oct 19: A report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Research Council (NRC) -- Hidden Costs Of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production And Use -- examines and, when possible, estimates "hidden" costs of energy production and use -- such as the damage air pollution imposes on human [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 4:25pm EDT

  • Major Economies Forum Meets In London

    Oct 19: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) meeting in London on October 18-19, "In every era there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history -- because they change the course of" [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 4:20pm EDT

  • Recommitting To The Clean Water Act After 37 Years

    Oct 15: The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Chaired by Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) held a hearing entitled, The Clean Water Act after 37 Years: Recommitting to the Protection of the Nation's Waters. Witnesses testifying at the hearing included: U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 4:30pm EDT

  • Senate Hearings Explore Climate Change Cost & Compromise

    Oct 14: While the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) has announced its schedule for considering climate change legislation including critical testimony during the week of October 27, and a Committee markup in early November [See WIMS 10/14/09], the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee (ENR), Chaired [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • Sen. Boxer Sets Stage For Climate & Energy Bill Consideration

    Oct 13: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, held a press conference and issued a statement regarding further legislative actions on the Boxer-Kerry Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act (S. 1733) [See WIMS 9/30/09]. Boxer said, "I am here" [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:33pm EDT

  • Bangkok Climate Negotiations End In Tensions & Turmoil

    Oct 9: The two-week climate negotiations in Bangkok concluded with the US climate negotiator saying it will be "extraordinarily difficult for the U.S. to commit to a specific number"; some developing countries walking out of the negotiations and accusing the EU of attempting to kill the Kyoto Protocol; and no [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:36pm EDT

  • GAO Reports On Mercury Controls At Coal-Fired Power Plants

    Oct 8: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report entitled, Clean Air Act: Mercury Control Technologies at Coal-Fired Power Plants Have Achieved Substantial Emissions Reductions (GAO-10-47, October 8, 2009). The report was prepared at the request of Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE) who serves as the Chairman of the Subcommittee [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 4:21pm EDT

  • Developed Countries GHG Reduction Commitments Fall Short

    Oct 6: One of the most contentious arguments in the current international negotiations on climate change is the individual level of commitment from various developed countries to greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions by the 2020 interim deadline and the 2050 long-term deadline. Also contentious is the base year from which the [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 4:48pm EDT

  • President's Signs Executive Order On Federal Sustainability

    Oct 5: President Obama signed a new Executive Order on Federal Sustainability. The Executive Order (EO) challenges agencies to lead by example in energy and environmental performance and gives them 90 days to set a 2020 greenhouse reduction goal. It also sets targets for efficient, sustainable buildings, petroleum use reduction [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:33pm EDT

  • Expectations Dim; Tensions Mount In Climate Negotiations

    Oct 2: At a Washington, DC "ideas forum" known as the First Draft of History, sponsored by the Atlantic magazine, Carol Browner, the White House climate chief offered some interesting insights into the Administration's thinking and expectations on climate change legislation in advance of the international meeting in Copenhagen in [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 3:24pm EDT

  • Major GAO Report Examines Critical Ethanol, Biofuels & RFS Issues

    Oct 2: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just released a major 184-page report, requested by Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) entitled, Biofuels: Potential Effects and Challenges of Required Increases in Production and Use (GAO-09-446, August 25, 2009). The report [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 4:33pm EDT

  • EPA Proposes GHG Permits For Large Sources

    Sep 30: U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate Summit that the Agency has taken a significant step to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Administrator announced a proposal requiring large industrial facilities that emit at [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 4:40pm EDT

  • Boxer-Kerry Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act

    Sep 30: Following preliminary releases of two different versions of a Senate Climate Change bill, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hosted an event to introduce the official Clean Energy [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 4:49pm EDT

  • Exelon Joins Others In Dropping U.S. Chamber Membership

    Sep 28: Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe urged utility industry leaders, regulators and policymakers at the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) national conference to continue pushing for sensible climate change legislation that puts a price on carbon. Rowe said, “The carbon-based free lunch is over. [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 4:25pm EDT

  • G-20: "Will Spare No Effort To Reach Agreement In Copenhagen"

    Sep 25: Among many other broad, general commitments, the G-20 members meeting in Pittsburgh September 24-25, agreed that they "will spare no effort to reach agreement in Copenhagen," at the UNFCCC COP15 meeting in Denmark scheduled for December 7-18. The G-20 includes the 19 countries: [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:34pm EDT

  • U.S. Chamber Concerned With 2nd Circuit Public Nuisance Ruling

    Sep 23: Calling it an "alarming reversal of established precedent, the U.S. Chamber of commerce is expressing real concern over the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit decision in Connecticut v. American Electric Power which upheld public nuisance claims in climate change litigation [See WIMS 9/22/09].

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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 4:52pm EDT

  • Summing Up The UN Climate Change Summit In NYC

    Sep 23: A release from the United Nations (UN) indicates that the Climate Change Summit convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon succeeded in mobilizing political will ahead of a major conference later this year by focusing the attention of world leaders on the urgent need for action [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 4:23pm EDT

  • DOI Offshore Energy Strategy Receives 450,000+ Comments

    Sep 22: Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Federal government has received more than 450,000 comments from the public regarding the development of a comprehensive offshore energy strategy for the Outer Continental Shelf. DOI's Minerals Management Service (MMS) received the comments during an extended public comment [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • President Obama Addresses UN Climate Summit In NYC


    Sep 22: Nearly 100 heads of State and Government converged on United Nations Headquarters in New York City for a Climate Change Summit convened by un Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Just 75 days before the start of the climate change conference [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 4:26pm EDT

  • Climate Legislation Debate Confused Over Cost Estimates

    Sep 21: As the Senate begins debate over climate change legislation, conflicting reports on the overall costs are giving both sides of the issue reason to tout their claims. The following provides and overview of a recent report from CBO; the release of FOIA information on a 2008 Treasury Department [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 4:46pm EDT

  • DOE Finalized $5.9 Billion Loan For Ford Motor Company

    Sep 17: Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) has closed on its loan offer of $5.9 billion to Ford Motor Company to transform factories across Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio to produce more fuel efficient models. The loan is part of the Department’s Advanced Technology [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 4:27pm EDT

  • Global Investors Call For Strong Climate Change Action This Year

    Sep 16: The world’s largest global investors have issued a joint call for strong action this year from U.S. and international policy makers in the fight against global warming. Their call comes a day after a similar call from more than 600 conservation, outdoor, sportsmen, recreation and faith groups who [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 4:45pm EDT

  • 600 Groups Urge Senators To Pass Climate Bill This Year

    Sep 15: As it now seems that the Senate leadership is leaning toward a possible delay in attempting to pass climate change legislation this year; a release from National Wildlife Federation (NWF) says a collection of more than 600 conservation, outdoor, sportsmen, recreation and faith groups representing tens of millions [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • National Vehicle Fuel Efficiency & GHG Emissions Standards Proposed

    Sep 15: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson jointly proposed a rule establishing an "historic national program" that would improve vehicle fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gases. They said their proposal builds upon core principles President Obama announced with automakers, the United [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • EU Proposal For Climate Financing For Developing Countries

    Sep 10: The European Commission proposed a blueprint for scaling up international finance to help developing countries combat climate change. According to a release, the initiative aims to maximize the chances of concluding an ambitious global climate change agreement at the December U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen. By 2020 developing [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 4:19pm EDT

  • Climate Envoy Says Administration Is Committed To Action

    Sep 10: The House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming, Chaired by Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) held a hearing entitled, Roadmap to Copenhagen – Driving towards Success. The hearing focused on progress made thus far and challenges remaining as the December 7-18, UN climate negotiations approach in just [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:51pm EDT

  • Senate Ag Appointment Raises New Climate Bill Questions

    Sep 9: Arkansas’s senior U.S. Democratic Senator, Blanche Lincoln, has been tapped as the next Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. In the committee’s 184-year history, Lincoln will be the first Arkansan and first female ever to serve as Chairman. She replaces Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 4:38pm EDT

  • Wheat Growers Oppose ACES; UN Touts NYC Summit

    Sep 8: As Congress returns and prepares to take on climate change legislation, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and staunch opponent of such legislation, applauded the board of the National Wheat Growers Association (NWGA), which, on September 4, by a vote of [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 4:32pm EDT

  • UN Enviro Chief Calls For Action On "Non-CO2" Pollutants

    Sep 4: Addressing the High-Level policy forum at the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) [See WIMS 9/4/09], Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), pointed out that the time has come for further urgent scientific assessments to determine the precise contribution, impacts and the [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 4:09pm EDT

  • Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications

    Sep 2: A new peer reviewed study -- Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications -- released by the World Wildlife Fund at the World Climate Conference 3 in Geneva, finds that Arctic sea ice is melting at a faster than expected pace, with major implications well beyond the region. These include [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 4:26pm EDT

  • Study Says Carbon Cycling Models Ignore Role Of Inland Waters

    Sep 2: In the paper, The Boundless Carbon Cycle, published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S.-based Stroud(TM) Water Research Center argue that current international strategies to mitigate manmade carbon emissions and address climate [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 4:42pm EDT

  • UNEP/TEEB "Climate Issues Update" Calls For Investment In Ecosystems

    Sep 2: A new climate issues update by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), a project launched by Germany and the European Commission in response to a proposal by the G8+5 Environment Ministers (Potsdam, Germany 2007), indicates that investing in restoration and maintenance of the [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • FOIA Information Reveals More Problems With Coal Ash Sites

    Aug 31: According to a release from the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, U.S. EPA has released information to environmental groups about America’s toxic coal ash dumps after months of data collection and inquiry. The groups, after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, discovered that there are 584 coal ash [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 4:33pm EDT

  • Business Groups Step Up Fight Against Climate Legislation

    Aug 27: As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider its version of a climate change and energy bill, and the United Nations Secretary-General is telling countries that the major climate change agreement to be considered later this year in Copenhagen "will determine the future of our planet,” major business organizations" [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:29pm EDT

  • Climate Chief Reports “Limited Progress” On UNFCCC Talks

    Subscribers & Readers Note: WIMS will be on break for the next two weeks. We'll be back on Monday, August 31, 2009. Have a safe and enjoyable end of summer.




    Aug 14: Following earlier more positive reports [See WIMS 8/13/09], at a sobering press briefing,' [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 4:41pm EDT

  • NAM Says ACES Is "Anti-Jobs, Anti-Growth" Legislation

    Aug 12: The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) unveiled a comprehensive study on the impact of The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill (HR 2454, or ACES). The legislation calls for a cap and [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 3:57pm EDT

  • Article: Bringing The Peak Oil Debate Into Focus

    Aug 10: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review has published a 16-page article entitled, "The Peak Oil Debate." According to an overview of the article, for the past half-century, a debate has raged over when "peak oil" will occur -- the point at which output can no longer [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 4:50pm EDT

  • Moderate Democratic Senators Will Shape Climate Legislation

    Aug 7: Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and nine of his Senate Democratic colleagues wrote to President Barack Obama on Thursday (August 6) to outline the need to maintain a level playing field for American manufacturing in any climate change legislation to come before the Senate in the fall. The Senators [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • $2 Billion Clunkers Funding Approved; Only 6 GOP Votes

    Aug 6: Although the Car Allowance Rebate Systems (CARS) or “Cash for Clunkers” program has been overwhelmingly popular with consumers, it was able to secure additional funding with the help of just six Senate Republicans [See WIMS 8/3/09]. The funding authorization bill, H.R. 3435, a supplemental appropriations for FY [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • Bipartisan Center Report On Science In Federal Regulation

    Aug 5: A bipartisan panel of top scientific and regulatory experts released recommendations calling on the White House and Federal agencies to make specific changes in the regulatory process to clearly distinguish scientific questions from policy disputes. The report comes from the Science for Policy Project (SPP), a project of [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 4:12pm EDT

  • EIA Report On ACES Market and Economic Impacts

    Aug 4: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report -- Energy Market and Economic Impacts of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 -- prepared at the request of House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) for [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 4:25pm EDT

  • Senate Hearing On Climate Law Allowance & Revenue Distribution

    Aug 4: The Senate Finance Committee, Chaired by Senator Max Baucus (D‐MT) held a hearing on Allowance and Revenue Distribution Under Climate Change Legislation. Witnesses testifying at the hearing included representatives from the: Government Accountability Office (GAO); Resources for the Future (RFF); American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for Public Policy Research; [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 4:20pm EDT

  • Senate "Cash For Clunkers" Debate Should Be Interesting

    Aug 3: The overwhelming consumer response to the Car Allowance Rebate Systems (CARS) or “Cash for Clunkers” program, and the House approval of an additional $2 billion to extend the program has set the stage for an interesting Senate debate on the continuation of the program [See WIMS 7/31/09]. [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 4:40pm EDT

  • "Cash for Clunkers" - Economic Stimulus That Works

    Jul 30: Less than five days old, the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS, aka Cash for Clunkers) was supposed to stimulate the buying of about 250,000 new, more fuel-efficient cars and last until November 2009. However, the $1 billion program has become perhaps the most successful economic stimulus effort yet, [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 4:36pm EDT

  • Senate Hearing On Climate Change & National Security

    Jul 30: The Senate Environment and Pubic Works Committee, Chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) held a hearing entitled, Climate Change and National Security. Witnesses testifying at the hearing included former Senator John Warner (R-VA); Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn USN (Ret.) Member, Military Advisory Board, Center for Naval Analyses; and [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 4:43pm EDT

  • NAS Project Says Deployment Of Energy Options Is "Urgent"

    Jul 28: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Research Council released the capstone report of the America's Energy Future project entitled, Technology and Transformation, which indicates that with a sustained national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy-efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 4:44pm EDT

  • Energy & Climate Focus Of U.S.-China Dialogue Meeting

    Jul 28: President Barack Obama addressed the opening session of the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington on Monday, July 27. The President laid out a framework of his vision for yet another critical aspect of American foreign policy [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 4:46pm EDT

  • Role Of Agriculture & Forestry In Global Warming Legislation

    Jul 22: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and other Administration officials and agriculture interests testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chaired by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) on, The Role of Agriculture and Forestry in Global Warming Legislation. Witnesses testifying included representatives from the: National Farmers Union; American [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 4:18pm EDT

  • Local Views On Climate Change & Clean Energy Jobs

    Jul 21: As part of the continuing series of climate legislation hearings, the Senate Environment and Pubic Works (EPW) Committee, Chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) held a hearing entitled, Clean Energy Jobs, Climate-Related Policies and Economic Growth -- State and Local Views. Witnesses testifying at the hearing included: Governors [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • EPA Administrator Jackson Speaks Out On Environmental Justice

    Jul 21: U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson delivered a major speech on environmental justice to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC). NEJAC is conducting a Public Meeting in Arlington, Virginia from July 21 – 23. The Council is participating in discussions about EPA priorities related to environmental justice, school [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 5:02pm EDT

  • U.S. & International Auto Makers Oppose E15 Fuel Waiver

    Jul 20: Despite the recent support announced by 10 Midwestern governors supporting the proposal [See WIMS 7/17/09] that ethanol blending levels be increased from 10 to 15 percent (i.e. E15 Waiver), the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) filed comments to U.S. EPA opposing the waiver request. EPA extended [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • Grants & New 2008 Wind Technologies Market Report

    Jul 16: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu announced the selection of 28 new wind energy projects for up to $13.8 million in funding -- including $12.8 million in Recovery Act (ARRA) funds. The projects will help address market and deployment challenges including wind turbine research and testing [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • Parties At Odds On Climate Legislation Competitiveness Impacts

    Jul 16: The Senate Environment and Pubic Works (EPW) Committee, Chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) held another in a continuing series of meetings on various aspect of climate change legislation. The hearing was entitled, “Ensuring and Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness While Moving Toward A Clean Energy Economy.” Witnesses testifying included [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 4:22pm EDT

  • Ozone & Climate Experts Meet To Rectify Treaties

    Jul 16: An historic meeting, bringing together experts on the ozone layer and ones on climate change has been concluded this week in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting centered on how to maximize action on hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) -- industrial gases that are ozone-friendly replacements but whose increased use over coming years [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 3:37pm EDT

  • UN Head Presses For "Ambitious" Mid-Term Targets & Baselines

    Jul 14: Five top United Nations officials have added their names to a petition urging world leaders to "seal the deal" in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December on an ambitious new climate change pact aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Joining the growing list of names (5,622 to date) are Margaret [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 4:44pm EDT

  • UN Report On ESG Legal Responsibility Of Institutional Investors

    Jul 14: A release from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) indicates that a powerful group of asset managers, representing around $2 trillion (USD) in assets under management, are arguing that integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions is no longer just a luxury, but a legal [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 4:50pm EDT

  • "Breakthrough" & "Missed Opportunity" Of Climate Meetings

    Jul 10: According to releases from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the organization sees both "breakthrough" and "missed opportunity" in the recent climate change meetings of the G8 and the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate held last week in L’Aquila, Italy. UCS saw a breakthrough in [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 4:22pm EDT

  • $3 Billion For 5,000 Renewable Energy Projects & Guidance

    Jul 9: As part of an innovative partnership aimed at increasing economic development in urban and rural areas while setting the nation on the path to energy independence, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Energy announced an estimated $3 billion for the development of renewable [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 4:32pm EDT

  • G8+ Members Adopt Climate Change & Energy Documents

    Jul 8: The G8 Summit is in full swing dealing with the international economic crisis, climate change and food security in L’Aquila, Italy. The "expanded" formats adopted for the Summit in L'Aquila provides for meetings of the G8 member countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and' [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

  • House Hearing On Regulation & Impacts Of Bottled Water

    Jul 8: The House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Chaired by Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) held a hearing on the "Regulation of Bottled Water" to examine the current federal regulation of bottled water. Witnesses testifying at the hearing included representatives of the: Government Accountability Office; Food [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 4:50pm EDT

  • Senate Debate On Energy & Climate Legislation Begins

    Jul 7: The Senate Environment and Pubic Works (EPW) Committee began its debate on energy and climate change legislation with a hearing entitled, “Moving America Toward a Clean Energy Economy and Reducing Global Warming Pollution: Legislative Tools.” Scheduled to testify are top Administration officials including: Steven Chu, Secretary of the [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 4:21pm EDT

  • Political Realities & Climate Change Legislation

    Jul 6: With just 153 days until the historic Copenhagen meeting to address global climate change and a successor international treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, the intensity of the climate change debate is heating up. In the background of this intense debate is a global recession that has financially crippled [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 4:43pm EDT

  • EPA Proposes Stringent Standards for Ocean-Going Ships

    Subscribers & Readers Note: WIMS will not be publishing tomorrow, Friday, July 3, 2009, which is the official Federal observance for the Fourth of July holiday. We will resume publishing on Monday, July 6, 2009.

    Jul 1: U.S. EPA announced the its next steps in a coordinated strategy [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:48pm EDT

  • EPA Issues "California Waiver" For Vehicle GHG Controls

    Jun 30: After years of intense legal and political wrangling, U.S. EPA is granting California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. EPA said, "Using the law and science as its guide, EPA has taken" [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 4:47pm EDT

  • EPA Proposes Strengthened NO2 Standards

    Jun 29: U.S. EPA announced that for the first time in more than 35 years, it is proposing to strengthen the nation’s nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air quality standard that protects public health. The proposed changes reflect the latest science on the health effects of exposure to NO2, which is formed [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 4:42pm EDT

  • ACES Climate-Energy Bill Passes House By 2 Votes; But. . .?

    Jun 26: the House passed the Waxman-Markey, American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES, HR 2454) which the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said will "revitalize our economy by creating millions of new jobs, increase our national security by reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and preserve our planet by" [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 4:43pm EDT

  • Major House Vote On ACES Energy & Climate Change Bill



    Update: 26-Jun-2009, 7:17 PM
    Recorded vote: 219 - 212 (Roll no. 477). Access a release from Speaker Pelosi (click here).Access a release from Minority Leader Boehner (click here).

    Jun 26: Despite months of drafting, negotiations, hearings, testimony, and debate most observers are predicting a [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 4:28pm EDT

  • House Dems Push Back On Obama Short-Term Transportation Plan

    Jun 24: Following the release of the Committee Print on June 22 [See WIMS 6/23/09], the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit met and marked up and approved by voice vote the Print of the "Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009." The $500 billion [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • UN Chief Calls For “Unprecedented” Global Climate Summit

    Jun 23: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon extended an invitation to heads of State and government to attend what is being called an “unprecedented” global summit at the United Nations to spur action towards reaching an ambitious climate change pact later this year. At a press conference in New York, [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 4:54pm EDT

  • CBO Says Cap & Trade To Cost $175 Per Household In 2020

    Jun 22: At the request of Representative David Camp (R-MI) Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has completed an analysis of the potential effects on households of the cap-and-trade program that would be implemented pursuant to H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey American Clean [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:12pm EDT

  • EPA's Suspension Of Chemical Management Program (ChAMP)

    Jun 19: While a formal announcement from U.S. EPA is apparently pending, several sources are reporting that the Agency's Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP) has been suspended. ChAMP was created initially to implement commitments that the United States made at the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 4:35pm EDT

  • Researchers Update Climate Science: "The Clock Is Ticking”

    Jun 18: Following the June 16, release by the Obama Administration of an update report on climate change in the United States [See WIMS 6/16/09] , a new international update report has also been released. A report synthesizing the newest research results relating to climate change and what action [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 4:44pm EDT

  • Sen. Inhofe Predicts "Demise" Of Clean Water Restoration Act

    Jun 18: U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued a release following an EPW business meeting which approved an amended version of the Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787). Senator Inhofe said the bill "faces certain demise in the Senate." Senator [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 4:41pm EDT

  • Senate Committee Approves Bipartisan Energy Bill

    Jun 17: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Chaired by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) voted 15 to 8 to approve an energy bill that has been in the making for several months. The American Clean Energy Leadership Act is based on six major bills -- all with bipartisan sponsorship [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 4:30pm EDT

  • Administration Releases Final U.S. Climate Change Impacts Report

    Jun 16: The Obama Administration released a report entitled, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, and a new U.S. Global Change Research Program website. The report compiles years of scientific research and takes into account new data not available during the preparation of previous large national and global [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 4:13pm EDT
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