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Giving healthy forests their due in our lives (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Oregonian: T he holiday season is the time of year when we celebrate trees and forests. We bring trees into our homes, decorate their branches and gather round them with our families. So, there's no better time to remember just how dependent we are on the life-sustaining benefits trees and forests provide us all -- clean water and air, wood products, fish and wildlife habitat and recreation. So it is fitting that at the first Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Montreal this month, ... |
United States: Feds pressure state on methane water rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Associated Press: HELENA - A federal agency is putting pressure on Montana regulators to back away from a proposed crackdown on coalbed methane wastewater. The U.S. Department of Energy says it was called in at the request of Wyoming state officials, who have worried their northern neighbor may go overboard with water quality rules. The Board of Environmental review was left wondering why the Department of Energy had a representative at a hearing earlier this month on a proposal that would ... |
Permafrost Could Be Melting, Study Finds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Associated Press: Climate change could thaw the top 11 feet of permafrost in most areas of the Northern Hemisphere by 2100, altering ecosystems across Alaska, Canada and Russia, according to a federal study. Using supercomputers in the United States and Japan, the study calculated how frozen soil would interact with air temperatures, snow, sea ice changes and other processes. The most extreme scenario involved the melting of the top 11 feet of permafrost, or earth that remains frozen year-round. ... |
Turbine co. harnesses wind power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Dallas Business Journal: Fort Worth real estate mogul Ross Perot Jr. will be among the first to use a new alternative energy invention from a Plano-based company -- the Mag-Wind rooftop turbine, which uses wind to generate electricity. Mag-Wind Co. L.L.C. in February will install one of its first five pre-production models -- possibly the one nicknamed "Toto" by its inventor -- atop the developer's Victory office building in downtown Dallas. "We are allowing them to put a turbine on ... |
United States: The Issue Isn't Just ANWR (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| The Day: Leaders in Congress this year have given lip service to the need for more renewable energy, and even conservation, the very concept upon which the Bush administration heaped contempt in the first term. A case in point is the ridiculous tug-of-war over drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. In the last few days, Senate Democrats and a few Republicans fended off an attempt by Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens to attach a provision to the budget approving drilling for ... |
United States: Valley's brown cloud emphasizes need for renewable energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Business Journal of Phoenix: The brown cloud hanging over the Valley like an unwanted holiday guest is a reminder to many of the need to move quickly toward renewable energy. Local momentum is beginning to build for the use of renewable sources, and the string of recent high-pollution advisories from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality only causes that pressure to rise. But unlike the dingy smog stagnating around the Valley, both Salt River Project and the Arizona Corporation Commission are ... |
Permafrost-thawing concern deepens (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Anchorage Daily News: Warming temperatures could melt the top 11 feet of permafrost in Alaska by the end of the century -- damaging roads and buildings with sinkholes, transforming forest and tundra into swamps, and releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the air. This meltdown forecast comes amid other signals that Arctic climate has been changing fast: shrinking sea ice cover, warmer temperatures and shifting vegetation. A new federal study released last week applied one of the most ... |
Trees help global warming study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Herald-Sun: DURHAM -- Among the pines in a tract of Duke Forest northwest of Chapel Hill stand derricks and pipes arranged in six rings that, were not Judson Edeburn there to explain them, a visitor could only guess might be some kind of well driller's Stonehenge. Edeburn is the manager of Duke Forest and an expert on its natural life, besides being versed in the apparatus installed there by researchers who have made these groves their laboratory. Below arrays of 80-foot steel towers, ... |
Climate change tactic could damage environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| SciDev.Net: Planting trees to absorb carbon and reduce the threat of climate change could cause a range of new environmental problems, researchers warn. In a global study published today (23 December) in Science, the researchers say tree plantations can dramatically reduce water availability, remove nutrients from soil and increase its salinity. They say better planning is needed to assess the environmental costs and benefits of planting trees to mitigate climate change. "The ... |
Evangelicals converted on the environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Financial Times: Early next year environmental scientists, who have been campaigning fruitlessly to persuade the administration of US President George W. Bush to take global warming more seriously, hope to gain a very influential source of support. The National Association of Evangelicals, the largest organisation of "born-again" Christians in the US, is circulating among its leadership a draft policy statement that would demand strong action against the causes of climate change. NAE ... |
The Coming Meltdown (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| New York Review of Books: Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains by Mark Bowen Henry Holt, 463 pp., $30.00 Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots by Alanna Mitchell University of Chicago Press, 239 pp., $25.00 The year 2005 has been the hottest year on record for the planet, hotter than 1998, 2002, 2004, and 2003. More importantly, perhaps, this has been the autumn when the planet has shown more clearly than before just what ... |
Santa told to sack his gas-emitting team of reindeer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| Scotsman: REINDEER-drawn sleds have been slammed as environmentally unfriendly, because the carrot-munching animals produce the greenhouse gas methane in their wind. Now Santa has been urged to ditch his sleigh team and start travelling on public transport to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. It has been calculated that Santa's team of nine reindeer would emit methane with a global warming impact equivalent to more than 40,600 tonnes of greenhouse gases on the 122 million mile ... |
Nigeria: Contempt case for Shell over gas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:10
| BBC: The oil multinational Shell is facing contempt of court proceedings in Nigeria over gas flaring. Last month, a court ordered the company to stop flaring gas from oil wells in the country, which accounts for much of Africa's greenhouse gas emissions. Shell has not halted the practice, so campaign groups have initiated proceedings for contempt of court, which can result in imprisonment. Shell has appealed against the initial judgement and denies it is in ... |
United Kingdom: Nuthatch invasion due to climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Scotsman: THE nuthatch, one of Britain's smallest birds, has begun breeding in Scotland for the first time, it was revealed yesterday. Until now, the tiny woodland bird has been totally restricted to England and Wales. But RSPB Scotland experts believe that milder weather patterns, due to climate change, have encouraged the nuthatch to make its home in parts of southern Scotland. And populations are now steadily making their way north towards the Central Belt. Pete Gordon, RSPB ... |
Poll: Most Oregonians support car standards (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| East Oregonian: Most Oregon voters favor requiring car companies to make passenger cars and light trucks that meet stricter pollution standards, according to a recent poll financed by the Clean Cars for Oregon Coalition. But public response locally shows less support for the rule. The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission voted unanimously Thursday to temporarily adopt tough new rules on car and truck emissions that will extend California standards to the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico ... |
Vanuatu: A village flees for safer ground (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Sydney Morning Herald: "THE sea has its own ways. We can't control it," says Chief Reuben Selwyn as he stands on a thin wall of coral which is all that now separates his little village from the invading sea. The destiny of Tegua island, home to 64 people in the remote Torres group of islands in far north Vanuatu, has always rested on the sea. The sea brought its first settlers at least 3000 years ago on bamboo rafts, its raiding enemies from nearby islands, the first beche-de-mer traders ... |
New Swedish Air Ticket Tax Set at Minimum $12 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: STOCKHOLM - Sweden's government and parliamentary allies have agreed to set a new environmental airline ticket tax at between 96-430 crowns ($12-$54), depending on the class of travel, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. The tax is part of a deal between the Social Democrat minority government and the Green Party, which has demanded efforts to reduce climate change in return for supporting the government. Airlines have expressed anger at plans for more tax. "The tax ... |
Tree-planting projects may not be so green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Guardian: Brides and grooms do it. Transatlantic travellers do it. And you might even be getting it for Christmas. Neutralising your carbon emissions is becoming the must-do activity for the eco-conscious citizen. But now an international team of scientists has raised an unexpected objection: some tree-planting projects may, they suggest, be doing more harm than good. Carbon offsetting allows people to pay someone else to atone for their climate sins by soaking up the CO2 that they produce. And ... |
Pollution is protecting us from harsh rays of the sun (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Guardian: CUTTING air pollution could trigger a greater surge in global warming than previously thought, suggesting future rises in sea level and other environmental consequences have been underestimated. Scientists have issued the warning after investigating the effect of aerosols on climate. Aerosols - particles smaller than 100th of a millimetre - are churned out from factories, the burning of fossil fuels and forest fires, although sea salt and dust particles from desert storms add to ... |
China Metal Firms Feeling Heat on Environment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: SHANGHAI - China's burgeoning metals industry is facing increased policing of air and water pollution, which authorities hope will help push the sector toward consolidation and better technology. But while environmental protection could force some metals plants to merge or upgrade, it could also have the perverse effect of encouraging the worst offenders to bring their old practices to new areas. Pollution has become a hot topic in China, as newspapers feel freer to report and ... |
Many Local Leaders Weren't Aware of Government Pollution Health Risk Scores (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Associated Press: WASHINGTON – The health-risk scores that the government created over the last decade to identify communities with potential hazards from industrial air pollution caught many local officials by surprise. In a widely published story last week, The Associated Press mapped those scores to neighborhoods in a computer analysis that found the risks from industrial air pollution disproportionately affect minorities and the poor. The story has stirred both controversy and intrigue in ... |
Ore. OKs Temporary Vehicle Emission Rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| LA Times: PORTLAND, Ore. -- A state commission voted Thursday to adopt car and truck emissions rules modeled on California's, extending the stringent standards to the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada. The rules were adopted temporarily. The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission now has 180 days to make them permanent, which is expected. When that happens, the tougher rules will also take effect in Washington state. The Washington Legislature has already approved the ... |
Study predicts glacier disappearance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Rocky Mountain Outlook: Global warming could lead to the disappearance of some of the smaller glaciers in the Rocky Mountains within the next 30 to 40 years, according to a new study. As warmer springs and autumns extend the melting season, the study predicts the snowline will increase in elevation and many of the area's glaciers are expected to begin retreating. The report predicts lower elevation glaciers such as Peyto, and particularly those less than 100 metres thick, will disappear in the ... |
The devil in the deep blue sea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Knight Ridder: PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of miles from any land, the waters of the North Atlantic suddenly developed an oddly deep-blue hue and turned incongruously warm. Patches of peculiar brown seaweed rode the surface, and the ocean brewed mild, damp winds that the muscular 20-year-old could feel on his skin. To the sailor, Benjamin Franklin, it was a puzzle, one that would baffle and bedevil him for decades. It would take him 40 years to figure out what he had encountered back in ... |
United Kingdom: True blues may go a shade green and end hostility to climate change levy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Financial Times: David Cameron is reconsidering the Conservatives' opposition to the climate change levy as part of a drive to rebrand the Tories as a party that cares about the environment. The Tory leader will step up his campaign to reposition the Conservatives on green issues in the new year, as part of a broader attempt to reach out beyond the party's core voters. The climate change levy, a tax added to companies' energy bills, was opposed by the Conservatives at the last election. But now ... |
Australia Ban Fires, Barbeques as Temperatures Soar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Bloomberg: Fire departments in four Australian states have banned all open fires and barbecues for the Christmas holidays as soaring temperatures and high winds threaten to spark another outbreak of deadly wildfires. Temperatures across southern states -- including New South Wales and Victoria, the two most populous -- are forecast to top 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in the next two days, with winds reaching 90 kilometers (56 miles) per hour. Ninety fires are already burning in the two ... |
Oregon adopts temporary emission rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Associated Press: The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission voted unanimously Thursday to temporarily adopt tough new rules on car and truck emissions that will extend California standards to the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada. Gov. Ted Kulongoski had recommended the stricter California standards for cars and light trucks beginning with the 2009 model year to help reduce pollution blamed for global warming. The Washington Legislature has already approved the stricter standards, ... |
American global warming gas emissions accelerate to a record high (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Guardian: Emissions of global warming gases from the United States have nearly doubled in 14 years and reached an all-time high in 2004, according to figures released by the American government. But new analysis suggests Europe is also falling behind in its attempt to meet legally binding United Nations targets. The US energy department report shows emissions rose 2% in 2004 and stood one year ago at 7,122.1m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year - about 25% of the world total. The rise ... |
United States: Democrats Block Alaska Drilling in U.S. Defense Bill (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats succeeded Wednesday in blocking, for now, oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which Republicans sought to add to a massive massive $453 billion war-time military spending bill. The ANWR refuge, which sprawls along Alaska's northern coast and may hold 10 billion barrels of oil, has been the focus of bitter wrangling in Congress for more than two decades. Most Senate Democrats and some moderate Republicans said the frigid ... |
New Zealand Scraps Kyoto Carbon-Tax Plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: WELLINGTON - New Zealand scrapped plans on Wednesday to introduce a carbon tax from 2007, saying it would not achieve its aim of cutting greenhouse gases. The tax of NZ$15 ($10.20) a tonne of carbon was due to be introduced from April 1, 2007 under the country's commitment to the Kyoto protocol. It would have increased electricity, fuel, gas and coal prices, bringing in about NZ$360 million a year. "Officials now advise that the proposed carbon tax would not cut emissions ... |
One region's bid to slow global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Christian Science Monitor: A new regional effort by seven Northeastern states to limit greenhouse gas emissions is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. Either the plan outlined this week by New York and six New England states will push America toward developing a nationwide plan, or it will waste money and yield few environmental benefits, say those on either side of the emissions debate. "We will use a market-based system to curtail harmful CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions, ... reduce our ... |
Blair faces organised rebellion on nuclear issue (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Guardian: A group of Labour MPs are organising to prevent Tony Blair pressing ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations, claiming that ministers will have to subsidise the nuclear industry massively to make it viable. It is the first sign of parliamentary opposition to nuclear power since the prime minister announced an energy review in the autumn, and is backed by the environment minister Elliot Morley. The group, brought together by a former minister, Alan Whitehead, is using the ... |
Climate in the balance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Knight Ridder: WOODS HOLE, Mass. - In this understated harbor village of tight streets and Cape Cod houses, the North Atlantic stirs gentle breezes in summer and tempers New England's harsh winter cold. And yet, only a geologic blip ago, this was a frigid and forbidding place, encased in a mile-thick sheet of ice - ice piled as high as five Liberty Place towers, spires included. Massive ice sheets have advanced and retreated repeatedly over aeons - at a glacial pace. But what researchers have ... |
New Zealand: Mixed reaction to dumping carbon tax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| TVNZ Interactive: Business groups have welcomed the government's decision to scrap its planned carbon tax but are worried there could still be a tax on fuel-burning power stations, and environmentalists have called the move pathetic. The carbon tax scheduled for 2007 will not be implemented but the government will investigate alternatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions, including a more targeted carbon tax on major energy users and emitters. Officials are due to report back on their findings in ... |
NZ backs down on carbon tax plans (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Sydney Morning Herald: WELLINGTON: New Zealand has dropped plans to impose a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions as part of its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on combating global warming. The Government's U-turn on the $NZ360 million $335 million) a year tax - due to take effect in 2007 - was announced by the climate change minister, David Parker, yesterday. The tax had been intended to help control emissions of climate-warming gases by making polluting energy sources more expensive than cleaner ... |
United States: Senate to Try Again on Alaska Oil in '06 - Domenici (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: WASHINGTON - With Congress apparently failing to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling before it adjourns this week, Senate Energy Chairman Pete Domenici will attach the drilling plan to a filibuster-proof budget bill next spring, an aide to Domenici said Wednesday. "It remains a top priority," the aide told Reuters soon after Senate Democrats blocked approval of a massive $453 billion defense spending bill which included ANWR drilling. "We're cooked ... |
Solar-energy boom a growing magnet for venture funding (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Associated Press: When Rusty Schmit landed his first job 25 years ago as an engineer for Motorola Inc., he was given a choice: specialize in weapons or solar power. ``I thought about it for a nanosecond and chose solar,'' he said, adding that the writings of militant conservationist Edward Abbey -- not dreams of fast cash -- encouraged him to take the environmentally friendly route. These days, the chief executive of solar-cell maker Advent Solar Inc. is benefiting from a new breed of solar ... |
Storing Carbon to Combat Global Warming May Cause Other Environmental Problems, Study Suggests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Duke University: Durham, N.C. -- Growing tree plantations to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to mitigate global warming -- so called "carbon sequestration" -- could trigger environmental changes that outweigh some of the benefits, a multi-institutional team led by Duke University suggested in a new report. Those effects include water and nutrient depletion and increased soil salinity and acidity, said the researchers. "We believe that decreased stream flow and changes in soil ... |
Warming Arctic Sees Return of Blue Mussels After 1,000 Years (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| National Geographic: After a thousand years, blue mussels–helped along by warmer water temperatures–have returned to high-Arctic seas. Their comeback could have serious implications for Arctic ecosystems and may be a sign of climate change, according to scientists. "We are heading into uncharted waters in terms of future climate, and indicators, such as these mussels, are telling us clearly that we had better pay attention, because entire ecosystems are going to be disrupted," said ... |
United Kingdom: Blair urged to drop nuclear option (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Press Association: Labour MPs are mounting a campaign to persuade Tony Blair not to go ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations. A group of backbenchers are drawing up a manifesto setting out the case for continued investment in renewable energy rather than taking "a dangerous leap with nuclear". They say the Government will have to subsidise the nuclear industry massively to make new stations viable. The move mirrors a backbench campaign to change the Government's ... |
Canada Looks Set To Require Ethanol in Gasoline (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: OTTAWA – Canada looks set to require that biofuels be included in all gasoline and diesel fuel sold in the country following nearly identical election campaign promises made by the two leading political parties. Both Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, Tuesday, and Conservative leader Stephen Harper, Wednesday, said they would require that renewable fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, make up 5 percent gasoline and diesel fuel. Harper said he would do it, if elected, by ... |
New Zealand: Escalation Of Protest Action Promised (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Scoop: The Save Happy Valley Coalition is planning an escalation of action to stop the Happy Valley mine in response to today's High Court ruling against a Forest and Bird appeal. Happy Valley, 25km north-east of Westport, is the proposed site of Solid Energy's controversial opencast coal mine. Save Happy Valley Coalition spokesperson Francie Mountier said that the campaign has already held protest action against the mine, escalating from creative demonstrations at Solid Energy's ... |
EU Commission Proposes Stricter Emissions Standards for Cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Associated Press: BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Commission approved a bill Wednesday to impose stricter emission standards on vehicles and seek to close a loophole that allows gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles to escape the EU pollution limits. The European Union's executive arm also approved plans that would oblige public bodies to spend at least a quarter of their spending on buses, garbage trucks and other heavy vehicles on those using "clean" technology such as biofuels, electric ... |
NZ carbon tax plan goes up in smoke (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Bloomberg: New Zealand's government yesterday dumped a proposed carbon tax, saying the policy would not have reduced emissions enough to justify its introduction. Power generators and factories were to pay a tax of $NZ15 ($14) per tonne of carbon dioxide generated, starting in April 2007, as part of the nation's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The tax, forecast to add 6per cent to power prices, was opposed by two of the three minor parties Prime Minister Helen Clark ... |
Pollution May Slow Warming; Cleaner Air May Speed It, Study Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Bloomberg: Pollution may be slowing global warming, researchers are reporting today, and a cleaner environment may soon speed it up. Writing in the journal Nature, an international scientific team provides evidence suggesting that a reduction in haze from human causes may accelerate warming of the earth's atmosphere. The researchers said pollutants had held down the rate of global warming by absorbing and scattering sunlight. "If people clean up the air, more warming will come ... |
Senate Rejects Bid for Drilling in Arctic Area (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| New York Times: In a chaotic conclusion to the Congressional year, the Senate blocked an effort on Wednesday to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and struck a last-minute accord to extend the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act for six months. Skip to next paragraph Doug Mills/The New York Times Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, after an oil-drilling provision failed to make a spending bill. With Vice President Dick Cheney casting the decisive ... |
United States: Arctic drilling rejected (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Toronto Star: WASHINGTON–Environmentalists on both sides of the border are hailing a dramatic vote that turned back the latest bid by George W. Bush and Republican senators to open a pristine Arctic refuge to oil drilling. Yesterday's pre-Christmas showdown in the U.S. Senate marked a victory by Democrats who have over more than two decades repeatedly killed access to the oil reserves in Alaska, consistently the most emotionally charged environmental battle in this country. The Canadian ... |
Daimler Agrees to Emission Fix in US Settlement (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: WASHINGTON - DaimlerChrysler Corp. will repair defective emission controls on nearly 1.5 million vehicles and pay a $1 million fine to settle allegations it violated federal environmental regulations, the government said Wednesday. According to the settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department, DaimlerChrysler will spend an estimated $90 million to satisfy the agreement. The settlement covers claims the company failed to properly disclose ... |
Gas Emissions Reached High in US in '04 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| New York Times: American emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming reached an all-time high in 2004, rising 2 percent from the year before, the Energy Department said, nearly double the average annual rate measured since 1990. The department's Energy Information Administration, in a report issued Monday, also raised earlier government estimates of emissions for 2003, pushing that year past 2000 into second place. No estimates were available for United States emissions in 2005, ... |
New Zealand scraps Kyoto carbon-tax plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-26-2005 at 11:46:11
| Reuters: New Zealand scrapped plans on Wednesday to introduce a carbon tax from 2007, saying it would not achieve its aim of cutting greenhouse gases. The tax of NZ$15 ($10.20) a ton of carbon was due to be introduced from April 1, 2007 under the country's commitment to the Kyoto protocol. It would have increased electricity, fuel, gas and coal prices, bringing in about NZ$360 million a year. "Officials now advise that the proposed carbon tax would not cut emissions enough to ... |
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