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7/12/2009
Most political arguments don't really have a right and a wrong, no matter how passionately they're argued. They're about human preferences -- for more health care or lower taxes, for a war to secure some particular end or a peace that leaves some ...
5/11/2009
Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse culprit in human-generated global warming, most scientists agree, but CO2 itself, and a handful of other substances, are now being promoted as good alternatives to commonly used refrigerants that threaten ...
3/2/2009
In defending the £2.5bn rescue package for British carmakers, Peter (now Lord) Mandelson, the British business secretary, insisted that "I am not proposing a bail-out". He argued that this was a "greening" initiative for a fundamentally sound ...
22/12/2008
Would a green energy America look and act much like the Golden State?
President-elect Barack Obama has hailed California as a trendsetter in the fight against global warming, and he's topped his energy and environment team with experts ...
3/12/2008
"There are many things we do not know about the future", says Lester Brown in this call to arms to save the environmental underpinnings of human society. "But one thing we do know is that business as usual will not continue for much longer. ...
14/11/2008
As world leaders gather in Washington, they would do well to remember that we face two crises. The global financial crisis is most immediate; the more existential is climate change. The urgency of the first is no excuse for neglecting the second. ...
26/8/2008
Author and environmental leader David Orr is upset about the corruption of language in the United States. He doesn't like how some groups have co-opted phrases like "pro-life" and "conservative" to promote their own political agendas, which often ...
2/7/2008
SUV factories closing, bicycle sales and train use rocketing, commuter belts
becoming "ghostburbs" as residents flock to the inner cities . . . welcome to
2008 America, where soaring oil and petrol prices have triggered a sudden ...
10/11/2007
The barrel of oil is approaching 100 dollars, do you think we are at a
turning point in the awareness of the need to change?
We are at a turning point. This derives from two or three things: one is the
possibility that the peak ...
18/10/2007
The obstacles Beijing faces in meeting environmental expectations by the 2008
Olympic Games are clear; what remains hazy is how the International Olympic
Committee will determine if Beijing's efforts are insufficient, and what the ...
17/7/2007
United Nations Secretary- General
Ban Ki-moon wrote an opinion column titled
"A Climate Culprit in Darfur" in the June 16 issue of the Washington Post. In
that article he linked the Darfur issue in Africa with climate change and ...
15/6/2007
Senate Democrats, eager for a vote on energy legislation, ran into staunch
Republican resistance Thursday to requiring that utilities use more wind, solar
and other renewable sources to produce electricity.
The impasse over ...
21/4/2007
Plastic bags are
banned in Leaf Rapids, Man.
Low-flow toilets and shower heads are mandatory in new homes in Okotoks, Alta.
The mayor of Aurora, Ont., is calling for clotheslines to reduce dependence on
dryers.
And in ...
23/2/2007
When George W. Bush, The Post and the insurance giant Lloyd's of London agree
on something, it's obvious a new wind is blowing. The climate change debate is
here to stay, and as America warms to the idea of environmental conservation on ...
22/2/2007
Targeting truckers, contractors and others, Senate Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond the landmark global warming law that took effect this year.
The package of bills would
ban methane releases ...
31/12/2006
Two of the most aggressive laws in the nation aimed at fighting global
warming take effect in California on Monday.
Sacramento's showpiece is Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming
Solutions Act, which seeks to roll ...
22/9/2006
It is almost 100 years since Henry Ford's young motoring company launched the
Model-T, the car that "put America on wheels" and triggered a revolution in
human mobility.
The 20th century belonged to the motor car. Towns ...
23/6/2006
China, with its big city's broad boulevards suddenly jammed with cars, is
plunging into the same love-hate
automobile obsession that has long since
absorbed the United States.
As The Wall Street Journal reported recently, nearly ...
2/6/2006
Renowned environmentalist and businessman Maurice Strong, considered by many
as the lead architect of the Kyoto Protocol, says Canadians are misguided if
they believe their country is more progressive than China in tackling pollution ...
2/6/2006
Renowned environmentalist and businessman Maurice Strong, considered by many
as the lead architect of the Kyoto Protocol, says Canadians are misguided if
they believe their country is more progressive than China in tackling pollution ...
22/5/2006
Here’s a sentence you don’t expect to read on the CNN website: “As gas prices
climb to record highs, more Americans seem to be abandoning their cars and
biking to work to save money at the pump.” Thus, in the same way Mad Cow fears ...
13/9/2005
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina has reopened a national debate on energy
policy, generating new congressional support for more stringent
automobile fuel
economy requirements and a fresh push by the oil industry for drilling in areas
now ...
8/8/2005
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, August 8, 2005 (ENS) - "The Energy Policy Act of
2005 is going to help every American who drives to work, every family that pays
a power bill, and every small business owner hoping to expand," President ...
15/6/2005
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders proposed $16 billion in energy tax breaks
yesterday as the Senate began debate on a massive bill that some Democratic
lawmakers argued would do too little to wean the country off its heavy reliance
on ...
15/11/2004
ROME The Land Rover barreled around the narrow corner like a whale splashing
into a swimming pool, parking, for lack of a better alternative, in the middle
of the road. Needless to say, it was not making many friends.
"I'm ...