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EU 2006 Carbon Data Show Emission Targets Too Lax (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 09:00:43
| Reuters: The European Union handed out too many free emissions permits to heavy industry in 2006, undermining the first phase of the bloc's flagship weapon against climate change, preliminary data showed on Monday. Europe's carbon market is supposed to curb emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by handing heavy industry too few emissions permits, forcing them either to clean up or buy extra allowances. But in 2005, the first year of the trading scheme, countries gave ... |
Oil firms' renewable investments lag image (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 09:00:44
| Reuters: Oil majors love to boast about their renewable energy activities but the glossy advertisements showing windmills and solar panels often mask modest investments and even skepticism. The companies say their investments show they are doing their part to help fight climate change. Environmentalists counter that the spending is inadequate and aimed solely at deflecting criticism away from the role that burning oil and gas plays in global warming. "The advertising ... |
Australia's Southwest Getting Hotter and Drier - Study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 09:00:44
| Reuters: Western Australia's southwest, an important agricultural region that also contains one of Australia's largest cities, would continue to get hotter and drier because of climate change, a government-backed study said. Rainfall was declining, while projections of further declines in rainfall were greater than first expected, Chris Mitchell of the government-backed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) told Reuters on Monday. The region contains ... |
EU Confirms to Release 2006 CO2 Data on Monday (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 09:00:44
| Reuters: The European Commission will release 2006 carbon emissions data from companies involved in the EU's emissions trading scheme at midday central European time (1000 GMT) on Monday, the Commission confirmed. No aggregate figures for 2006 would be made available at this stage, as they may not be representative and are still subject to change as outstanding emissions data are reported, the Commission said in a statement. It said the data the installations had submitted accounted ... |
Controversial Seal Hunt Delayed 2nd Year Due to Ice Breakup (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 09:00:44
| National Geographic: Thin ice is killing baby seals in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence by the thousands and forcing the delay of the area's annual harp seal hunt for the second year in a row. The controversial tradition, the world's largest marine-mammal hunt, was originally slated to begin on March 28. It is now expected to kick off sometime later this week, say officials with Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). The hold was placed because, like last year, the ice floes where harp ... |
Supreme Court rules against Bush in global warming case (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 09:00:45
| Reuters: In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a U.S. government agency has the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming. By a 5-4 vote, the nation's highest court said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "has offered no reasoned explanation" for its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide and other emissions from new cars and trucks that contribute to climate change. The ruling in one of the most important ... |
US ruling may give power to cut car emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:42
| LA Times: AUSTRALIAN green groups have welcomed a US Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for governments to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the car manufacturing industry. The ruling could have implications for Australia before the end of this decade, said the Total Environment Centre spokesman, Jeff Angel. "We don't do anything like that at the moment," Mr Angel said. "Emission controls on vehicles are governed by the Australian Transport Council, ... |
Two-thirds of world worried by warming, US lags (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:42
| Reuters: More than two-thirds of the world's people are worried by global warming with Americans among the least anxious even though their nation is the top source of greenhouse gases, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday. The survey, of more than 14,000 people in 21 nations for BBC World television, showed most respondents around the world reckoned the United States was more to blame that other nations for rising temperatures. "More than two-thirds (68 percent) of the world is ... |
Australia tells EU to do more on emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:42
| Reuters: Australia called on the European Union on Tuesday to do more to cut its own greenhouse emissions before lecturing Kyoto skeptics Australia and the United States about climate change. Australia and the United States have refused to ratify the Koyto Protocol which sets binding limits on reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Monday Australia and the United States were hampering efforts to tackle climate ... |
Environmentalists hail Supreme Court ruling on carbon dioxide (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:42
| International Herald Tribune: The new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on carbon dioxide emissions is a strong rebuke to the Bush administration, which has maintained that it does not have the right to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and that even if it did, it would not use the authority. The ruling does not force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate auto emissions, but the agency would almost certainly face further legal action if it fails to do ... |
Justices push EPA to act on car emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| LA Times: The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for a more aggressive attack by government on global warming, which could include the first national rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, trucks and power plants. In a 5-4 decision, the high court rebuked the Bush administration and ruled that so-called greenhouse gases – like carbon dioxide – were air pollutants subject to federal regulation. President Bush and his aides, allied with automakers, argued that federal ... |
Queen seeks to cut carbon footprint (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| Reuters: The Queen is trying to trim her carbon footprint. With the fight against global warming currently high on the political agenda in Britain, the monarch is reviewing royal households to see how they can save more energy. "For the first time we are doing an overall audit to take stock. We don't have a tally of our carbon footprint. That's what we are trying to assess -- how to reduce our carbon emissions," a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said on ... |
Ruling helps California battle global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| San Francisco Chronicle: The campaign led by California to combat global warming at the state level took a giant step forward Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's hands-off approach to climate change and pushed the government toward regulation of greenhouse gases. The 5-4 ruling, the most important environmental decision the court has issued in many years, clears the way for current and future federal administrations to set mandatory limits on motor vehicle emissions of ... |
Supreme Court on Global Warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| Philadelphia Inquirer: Yesterday's climatic shift came not from the Earth, but from the U.S. Supreme Court. Stop debating whether to act on global warming and figure out how to do it, justices ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA. In perhaps the most important environmental ruling in a decade, the court rejected a "laundry list" of excuses from the Bush administration Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate Earth-warming greenhouse gases as pollutants under the nation's Clean Air ... |
Bangladesh warns region must act on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| Radio Australia: A top Bangladesh official says South Asian leaders must act immediately against the threat of rising sea levels and river salinity due to global warming. Chief adviser to the Bangladesh government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, has told the summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation that global warming endangers millions of poor people in the region. Low-lying Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated nations. Experts say it's also one of the most ... |
Rich countries to gain from climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| Financial Times: Northern Europe and northern America are likely to be the winners from the rising temperatures. Ironically, these are the same regions that have been most responsible for changing the climate, as most of the greenhouse gases emitted since the industrial revolution have come from Europe and the US. Poorer regions of the world, which have contributed least to industrial emissions, will suffer as rising temperatures reduce their agricultural yields, droughts worsen and diseases such as ... |
Struggling seabirds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 12:00:43
| San Francisco Chronicle: West Coast seabirds are dying, apparently from a lack of food -- and some researchers think the phenomenon may be linked to global climate change. This is the third year that scientists have found unusually large numbers of marine birds -- mainly common murres, but also rhinoceros auklets and tufted puffins -- washed up on beaches in California, Oregon and Washington. In 2005, the first year of the phenomenon, large numbers of Cassin's auklets also died. Hannah Nevins, the ... |
Supreme Court rules against EPA in global warming case (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 03:00:44
| Chicago Tribune: In a stinging reprimand of the Bush administration's policy on global warming, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Clean Air Act expressly authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. The 5-4 ruling rejected the administration's claims that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are not pollutants covered by the landmark law. It also supported the right of 12 states and 13 environmental groups to challenge the EPA's lack of action in ... |
Gore's home one step closer to getting solar panels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 03:00:44
| Tennesean: A change in Belle Meade's zoning laws, which took effect Sunday, will let former Vice President Al Gore get on with the process of putting solar panels on his home. All he needs now is a nod from the satellite city's board of zoning appeals, which will consider the request April 17. The city's overhauled laws will permit electricity-generating solar panels if neighbors can't see them, said Terry Franklin, the city building official. "With the fact that the Gores ... |
Australia excluded from climate talks, says opposition (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 03:00:44
| Radio Australia: The Australian Federal Oppostion Leader, Kevin Rudd, says the Government should ratify the Kyoto Protocol to ensure Australia is involved in international talks on climate change in the future. The European Union's Environment Spokesman says it is only political pride that's stopping Australia from ratifying the protocol. The prime minister, John Howard, rejects that, and notes twelve EU countries that are signatories to the protocol that will not meet the targets for ... |
Supreme Court reminds EPA of its mission (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2007 at 03:00:45
| Arizona Daily Star: It took a Supreme Court ruling to reaffirm the obvious. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Bush administration were reminded Monday that "protection" is one of the EPA's responsibilities. In a 5-4 decision, the high court essentially said the EPA should either regulate the emission of greenhouse gases or provide a legal explanation for why it is not doing so. A suit brought by environmentalists and 12 states said the federal agency should limit greenhouse ... |
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