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Australian coal mine blocked over climate impact (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| New Scientist: One of Australia's environment courts has ruled against the country's largest independent coal producer, saying that its assessment of the impacts of a new mine should have included an assessment of its impact on climate change. The campaign group Greenpeace has called the ruling "historic". Greenpeace has been demonstrating against the proposal of the Centennial Coal Company to build a new mine in New South Wales. Justice Nicola Pain ruled on Monday that the ... |
United Kingdom: Biofuel plant 'could be anti-green' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Scotsman: A BIOFUEL production plant to be built in Scotland with £9 million of taxpayers' money is in danger of becoming a "major green con" and could increase rainforest destruction, environmentalists warned yesterday. Green fuels made out of crops and other organic material are supposed to help reduce emissions from fossil fuels as part of the battle against climate change and Scottish farmers have been looking at growing oilseed rape to provide the raw material for a factory at ... |
Hydropower: a greenhouse gas culprit? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| SciDev.Net: Hydropower plants have long been a byword for clean energy. But researchers warn that tropical reservoirs might release more greenhouse gases than fossil-fuel power stations. Philip Fearnside, a conservation biologist at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon in Manaus, Brazil, has shown that in the first ten years of operation, a typical reservoir will emit four times as much carbon as a fossil-fuel station. The culprit is organic matter trapped when land is ... |
US Democrats mull climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| BBC: The issue of climate change and global warming hardly registered on the political radar in the United States during the recent Congressional elections. On 7 November however, the Democratic Party secured both houses of Congress and that political shift is likely to mean a change of emphasis over key environmental issues. The US is the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter but the country has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol that sets limits on those gases. ... |
Western states team up to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| San Francisco Chronicle: California and three other Western states will collaborate on ways to fight global warming and use energy more efficiently under an agreement regulators signed Friday in San Francisco. The agreement commits California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington to review each other's policies and jointly develop new approaches. The states will explore ways to encourage use of renewable energy, limit greenhouse gas emissions and conserve power. They will not, however, be required to adopt each ... |
Americans drive on despite gas prices (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| San Francisco Chronicle: Record high gasoline prices haven't made a serious dent in America's demand for fuel, a new University of California-Davis study suggests. Soaring prices have prompted Americans to cut back their driving only slightly. Further, drivers changed their ways less during the most recent shocks than they did during the period of skyrocketing gas prices of the 1970s, the study found. The study concludes that pump prices have to soar significantly more before Americans change their ... |
As heat sizzles, growing wind power fizzles (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| MarketWatch: On Aug. 21, when afternoon temperatures in Washington state soared, Avista Corp.'s (AVA) utility division asked customers to cut their electricity use while it scoured the region for power supplies. Utility operators were frustrated, in part, because the company's supply of wind power was producing nothing, thanks to a lack of wind. Avista wasn't alone. Throughout the West during that August heat wave, a growing fleet of windmills met triple-digit temperatures with impotence. ... |
United Kingdom: Brown doubles tax on flights in effort to combat global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Evening Standard: Air passengers are to face higher taxes in a mini-Budget to be unveiled by Gordon Brown next week. The Chancellor will announce increases in air passenger duty (APD) on Wednesday in an attempt to demonstrate that the Government is serious about tackling emissions linked to global warming. A rise in vehicle excise duty on gas-guzzling 4 x 4 vehicles is also expected. Industry insiders believe the Chancellor will double the levy on short-haul flights - adding between £5 ... |
United Kingdom: Brown to raise tax on air travellers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Telegraph (UK): Air travellers will be hit by fresh tax rises next week as Gordon Brown tries to underline his green credentials in his pre-Budget report. The Chancellor is preparing to unveil plans on Wednesday to raise the air passenger duty that millions of holidaymakers have to pay on top of the price of their ticket. The move comes amid mounting concern about the soaring numbers of people using cut-price airlines. Some airlines such as Ryanair have even resorted to offering passengers ... |
United Kingdom: Eco-catastrophe: The Cairngorms (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Independent (UK): You know you are in a special part of the country when you spot a herd of reindeer out on the hillside, or when a man sweeps past on his dog-sleigh. This is the Cairngorms, Britain's largest National Park. Up here in the Highlands of Scotland, the landscape is more like Greenland than Kent. The Cairngorms has more mountain birds, animals and plants than anywhere else in the country. It is at once the highest, wildest, coldest, snowiest, and some think the most dramatically beautiful part of ... |
Philippines: Greenpeace warns of more violent weather (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Philippine Inquirer: As they lamented the loss of lives and the extensive devastation wrought by super-typhoon Reming (international code name Durian) on some parts of the country, the international environmentalist group Greenpeace warned of more violent weather events to come as a dire consequence of the continuing climate change. "The tragic loss of lives and the massive destruction of properties brought about by the super-typhoon deserve immediate attention and sympathy from the international ... |
Hundreds dead as typhoon pounds the Philippines (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Independent, UK: Up to 400 people are feared dead in the Philippines after Typhoon Durian pounded northern and central regions with torrential rain and winds of 155mph, triggering powerful landslides. The Albay region, south of Manila, was among the worst hit, as rock falls and volcanic mudslides caused by the heavy rains devastated several villages. "This is the worst catastrophe in our province's history," Fernando Gonzalez, Albay province's governor, said. "We don't have the ... |
More rainstorms to lash warming India (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Hindustan Times: In the backdrop of global warming, brace for more intense, localised rainstorms and floods, especially if you live in central India. The frequency and intensity of extreme rain events are on a "significant rising trend" since the last 50 years, reported monsoon researchers from Pune and Bangalore in the international journal Science on Friday. They also warned of a 'substantial increase in hazards' related to heavy rain over central India in future. "We have ... |
The future of transport: bigger airports, and motorists forced to pay by the mile (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Independent (UK): Airlines have been given the all-clear to carry on expanding, even though they are the UK's fastest growing source of air pollution. Campaigners concerned about climate change were appalled by the suggestion in the 30-year strategy for transport set out by Sir Rod Eddington yesterday that the UK's major airports, such as Heathrow and Birmingham International, should be encouraged to expand. Meanwhile, small businesses reacted angrily to Sir Rod's call for motorists to have to ... |
Water recycling dominates climate change forum discussions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An ACT and New South Wales government funded forum has been told more needs to be done in the way of water recycling if the region is to tackle climate change. The three-day Capital Region Climate Change Forum is made up of ACT and interstate residents who are discussing ideas and policy directions with a number of experts in the field. Chris Reedy from the Institute for Sustainable Futures says there has been a suggestion of subsidies for solar power and double-glazing for all ... |
A duck hunt for global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Boston Globe: SUPREME COURT Justice Antonin Scalia needs to go duck hunting. It is the only way for him to understand global warming. He made that clear in oral arguments this week on whether states can sue the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency's refusal -- with the backing of the White House and the auto industry -- to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gases of global warming. Just moments after James Milkey, Massachusetts assistant attorney general, opened his statement on how the ... |
United Kingdom: Airlines, operators to carbon offset (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Times (UK): HOLIDAY companies this week stepped up the pressure on travellers to offset the carbon emissions of their flights, with a raft of new schemes announced at the annual conference of the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) in Marbella, Spain. First Choice Holidays will introduce what it claims is the world's largest carbon offset scheme run by a leisure airline from March 2007, when all customers will have the chance to pay £1 per adult (50p per child) towards the cost of ... |
United States: Baucus: State to get $72 million for wind projects (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Associated Press: More than 30 proposed wind energy projects in Montana are getting $72 million in federal money to help launch them, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Friday. The Internal Revenue Service has approved financing the projects through a new bonding program Baucus wrote into a 2005 energy bill, the senator's office said. The Clean Renewable Energy Bonds will let governmental and tax-exempt entities such as cities and rural electric cooperatives, finance alternative energy projects at ... |
United States: Clean coal plants receive tax credits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Courier-Journal: To cut pollution and boost U.S. sources of power, the Energy Department has started awarding tax credits to build clean-burning coal plants, including one in Trimble County, Ky. Louisville Gas & Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities were awarded a $125 million federal tax credit Thursday for building a 750-megawat plant that burns pulverized coal at higher temperatures and pressure than older units to create more electricity and less air pollution. The credit, part of $1 billion ... |
Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| South Florida Sun-Sentinel: ISSUE: U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments about regulating greenhouse gases. Before lawyers argued at the Supreme Court on Wednesday about whether automotive emissions of "greenhouse" gases like carbon dioxide are covered by the Clean Air Act and should be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, a U.N. report issued earlier this month found that Earth's atmosphere recorded the highest concentrations of such gases in history in 2005. Greenhouse gases are ... |
Group seeks penguin protection (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| United Press International: Some penguins need U.S. environmental laws to protect them against global warming and overfishing, a petition filed with the Fish and Wildlife Service says. Of the world's 19 species of penguins, 12 living in the southern hemisphere could become extinct if the federal government doesn't list them under the Endangered Species Act, the petition said. The document was prepared by the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity. The petition said the government must limit ... |
Nepal's farmers on the front line of global climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Guardian: Schoolteacher Sherbahadur Tamang walks through the southern Nepalese village of Khetbari and describes what happened on September 9: "During the night there was light rain but when we woke, its intensity increased. In an hour or so, the rain became so heavy that we could not see more than a foot or two in front of us. It was like a wall of water and it sounded like 10,000 lorries. It went on like that until midday. Then all the land started moving like a river." When it ... |
Ski resorts left hot and bothered by lack of snow (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:23
| Times (UK): It does not look good for Rosi Schipflinger. The slopes close to her Sonnenberg restaurant in the Austrian resort of Kitzbühel should be white, not a muddy brown. "Where are the queues for the ski lift?" she says with a glance at the skies that have yet to yield a single snowflake. I'm having to put out deckchairs on my terrace." Similar stories are emerging from ski communities across the Alps, where the warmest autumn on record is posing a threat to one of the great ... |
United States: State considers cap, trade plan solution to CO2 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:24
| Bangor Daily News: Maine officials are debating whether to follow the lead of other Northeastern states hoping to generate a financial windfall from a regional pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Eight states including Maine have signed onto a first-in-the-nation agreement that aims to cap and then reduce by 10 percent carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 2019. Participating states are allowed to tailor some aspects of the plan to their needs. One of the biggest ... |
United Kingdom: Road pricing could halve traffic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:24
| Press Association: Road pricing could cut congestion by half and raise £28 billion a year by 2025, according to a Treasury-commissioned report. A study by former British Airways chief executive Sir Rod Eddington said road pricing should be tested with pilot schemes - something the Government is organising in the next few years. He said in his report: "Without a widespread scheme by 2015, the UK will require very significantly more transport infrastructure. However, road pricing on this scale ... |
Federal ruling affects oil and gas leases in Utah (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:24
| Deseret Morning News: More than 100 oil and gas leases in Utah may be undevelopable because of a federal court ruling that threw out a Bush administration rule and reinstated one dating from the Clinton presidency. The decision was issued Wednesday by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco. The case is a consolidation of a suit brought by the state of California and others, and one filed by environmentalists. On Sept. 20, the district court ruled against the ... |
Honda Establishes Solar Cell Subsidiary Company (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 09:00:24
| GreenBiz: Honda Motor Co. says it plans to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary, Honda Soltec Co., to produce and sell the next-generation thin-film solar cell independently developed by Honda. The new company will lead Honda to make a full-scale entry into the solar cell business. The next-generation solar cell to be produced and sold by Honda Soltec was developed by Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., the production engineering subsidiary of Honda. By using thin film made from a compound of copper, ... |
Expert Warns China to Act or Suffer Consequences of Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 06:00:17
| Voice of America: Global warming has been labeled as one of the greatest challenges of the coming century. Rising emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases" like carbon dioxide threaten to warm the planet, changing weather patterns and melting polar ice caps. Author and economist Nicholas Stern says China needs to become a "key player" in averting this scenario, or it will suffer, too. "If global warming was left uncontrolled, there would be very severe droughts in ... |
Climate Change: End of the First Act? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 06:00:18
| GreenBiz.com: The one seeming certainty in environmental policy these days is that climate change is the most serious issue facing the world. The major policy mechanism for addressing it is also established: reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by reducing fossil fuel use. That this is an unlikely path for the world as a whole has only increased expressions of concern, even hysteria. Climate change has become the existential challenge of the environmental era. One way or another, that existential ... |
German Greens refocus on environment to win voters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 06:00:18
| Reuters: Germany's Greens party, hoping a global wave of anxiety about climate change will sweep it back into power, is setting aside its liberal-left campaigns to return to its original cause -- the environment. The 26-year-old party spent nearly five hours on Saturday at a party congress pushing for radical cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and honing their strategies to make the environment the country's top issue. "We want to send a signal from here that we will push the fight ... |
EPA staffers go to Hill over global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-02-2006 at 06:00:19
| Christian Science Monitor: This week, labor leaders representing more than 10,000 Environmental Protection Agency scientists, engineers, and staff have asked Congress to hold aggressive oversight hearings on the agency's own greenhouse-gas emissions programs. Under the Bush administration's voluntary approach, the labor leaders' petition says, the agency isn't doing enough to encourage the use of current technology to control carbon-dioxide emissions, the leading cause of human-induced climate change. In fact, ... |
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