Greenhouse Gas

The Climate Post: Fight Over Tar Sands Pipeline May Lead to Cancellation, "Huge" Consequences

Mason Inman | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Tar Sands, Energy, Climate, Epa, Greenhouse Gas, Environment, Climate Change, Ethanol, Pollution, Barack Obama, Canada, Methane, Green News

If the pipeline is approved, some environmental groups say they'll sue -- but if it is cancelled, the company proposing the pipeline, TransCanada, will probably reapply.

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For Detroit, Size Matters: Will Automakers Latch on to Loopholes and Undercut New Emissions Rules?

Dan Becker | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Epa, Autos, Gas Prices, Hybrids, Foreign Cars, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Gas Mileage, Green Cars, Suvs, Global Warming, Trucks, CAFE Standards, Nhtsa, Detroit, Obama, Emissions, Detroit News

The Obama administration has proposed rules that would determine how far 2025 cars go on a gallon of gas. Surprisingly, though, auto companies can dictate how successful the program will be. This presents Detroit with an unusual challenge.

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Concentrations Of Greenhouse Gases Hit Record Levels

AP | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Co2, World Meteorological Organization, Video, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas, Fertilizers, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Dioxide Concentrations, Green News

GENEVA -- Global warming gases have hit record levels in the world's atmosphere, with concentrations of carbon dioxide up 39 percent since the start o...

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Global Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Rise

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Vital Signs Online, Livestock, Worldwatch Institute, Factory Farm, Disease, Greenhouse Gas, Health, Diet, Disease Prevention, Meat, Green News

Global meat production and consumption has increased rapidly in recent decades, with harmful effects on the environment and public health as well as on the economy.

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Hitting the Sweat Ceiling?

David Yarnold | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Audubon, Epa, Global Warming, Debt Ceiling, Climate Change, House Gop Epa Restrictions, Greenhouse Gas, Air Polution, Polution Standards, Green News

We are in the midst of face-slapping, wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee bad climate disruption happening to our planet. And yet, Congress is acting as if the most important thing they can do is brutally cut environmental regulations.

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The Cost Of Going Green

| Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: California, California Green Economy, Greenhouse Gas, California Environmentalism, Climate Change, Green Economy, California Greenhouse Gas, California Environmental Issues, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Susanne Rust Californians are worried about climate change and overwhelmingly support ...

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McDonalds and United Arab Emirates Greener Than America?

Terry Tamminen | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Epa, Mcdonalds, Masdar, Air Pollution, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gas, Zayed Future Energy Prize, Renewable Energy, Fuel Standards, Climate Change, Green, Biodiesel, United Arab Emirates, Mcdonalds Green, Mcdonalds Vegetable Oil, Mcdonalds Uae, Green News

The US should be red-faced that its iconic brand of burgers, shakes, and fries is going green in middle of an oil-producing country, while our government and many companies here pretend that business as usual will go on forever.

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The Best Remedy for the Price of Gas

Dan Becker | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreign Oil, Gas Prices, Carb, Bp, President Obama, Greenhouse Gas, Imported Oil, Cars, Emissions, Fuel Economy, Suvs, Trucks, Epa, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fuel Efficiency, California Air Resource Board, Oil Addiction, Mpg, Fuel Costs, Climate Change, Gas Mileage, Carbon Dioxide, Cafe, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Detroit, Nhtsa, Pavley, Green News

The Obama administration can't do much to lower the price of a gallon of gas, but it is on the cusp of a crucial decision that could help consumers come out ahead because they would need less gas.

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Your iPod Is Polluting China and L.A. -- and Wyoming Might Be Next

Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foxconn, Powder River Basin, Ipod, Apple, Wyoming, Greenhouse Gas, Shenzhen, Co2, Peabody Energy, Guangzhou, China, Los Angeles, Coal, Green News

Next time you buy an iPod, don't forget to add the CO2 cost of moving coal from Powder River Basin, Wyo., to Guangzhou, China.

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Amidst a Giant Snowstorm, Last Year Was Declared Hottest Year Ever

Christopher Mims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snooki, Solar, Greenhouse Gas, Solar Panels, Epa Climate Regulations, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Fossil Fuel, Coal, Global Warming, Snowstorm, Sea Level Rise, Green News

Not everyone can have the media savvy of Snooki, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's timing for their most recent announcement couldn't have been much worse.

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EPA Issues Guidelines For Greenhouse Gas Reduction

AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas, EPA Guidelines, Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News

SAN FRANCISCO — Increasing energy efficiency is the focus of the first-ever federal guidelines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from indust...

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EPA Goes After Texas

AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Epa, Epa Texas, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gas Permits, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News

DALLAS — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it is taking the unprecedented step of directly issuing air permits to indu...

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A Quick and Dirty 5 Part Carbon Diet

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon, Green Prophet, Florida, Greenhouse Gas, Oil, Weight Loss, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Panama City Beach, Green News

The BP Gulf oil spill off the coast of Florida was a disaster for the environment, but a wake up call for humanity. While governments, environmental...

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Bring it On

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Climate-Change-Policy, Regulate Greenhouse Gas, Global Warming, House Republicans, Epa, Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Greenhouse Gas, Green News

"Bring it on" should be the Democrats' response to the new House Republican majority's pledge to hold investigatory hearings on the Obama Administration's environmental policies.

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New Mexico May Adopt Cap-And-Trade Plan

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Mexico, Cap-and-Trade, Greenhouse Gas, New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board, Environmental Protection Division, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc., Western Climate Inititative, Emissions, Environment Department, Coal-Fired Plants, Denver News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico regulators are set to decide Tuesday whether to adopt a state proposal that would establish a cap-and-trade progr...

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As Cap and Trade Dies, It's Time To Bury Offsets With It

Steve Valk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GHG Offsets, Carbon Offsets, Cap-and-Trade, Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Kerry-Lieberman, Senate, Global Warming, Green News

Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, but it's not the end of the world. In fact, the demise of cap-and-trade might be the best thing that could happen for the Earth's climate.

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Heat Waves Could Be Common By 2039 In U.S., Finds Stanford Study

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas, Farenheit, Carbon Emissions, Heat Wave, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Heat, Weather, Experiments, Extreme Weather, Studies, Global Warming, Temperature, Green News

Devastating heat waves that result in fatalities and crop losses may increasingly become a common occurrence in the United States over the next three ...

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Heat Waves Could Be Common By 2039 In U.S., Finds Stanford Study

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Studies, Extreme Weather, Weather, Greenhouse Gas, Temperature, Experiments, Global Warming, Farenheit, Climate Change, La Nina, Carbon Emissions, Heat Wave, Germany, Noaa, Gas, Heat, Green News, Noah Diffenbaugh, Green News

Devastating heat waves that result in fatalities and crop losses may increasingly become a common occurrence in the United States over the next three ...

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Weekly Mulch: Oil rig sinks, as does Senate climate bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cape Cod, Epa, Regulation, Clean Energy, Kevin Drum, Mms, Lieberman, Dod, Carol Browner, Biomass, Oil Spill, Cape Wind, Mother Jones, Disaster, Climate Bill, In These Times, Grist, Texas Observer, Bp, Kerry, Louisiana, Greenhouse Gas, Massachusetts, Texas, Coast Guard, Care2, Wind Farm, Interior Department, Graham, Environment, Oil, Off-Shore Drilling, Working in These Times, Senate, The Washington Independent, Exxon Valdez, Green News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil f...

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Can Biochar Help Save the World?

Ron Dembo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, Biochar, Biomass, Avatar, Huntsville Project, Greenhouse Gas, Green News

Biochar is a unique 'green' technology: it takes carbon that has been captured from the atmosphere during the growing process of plants, and converts it into a soil additive, thereby storing the carbon in the earth.

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In Europe "Think Globally and Act Locally" Is More Than Just a Slogan for Saving the Planet

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 05.25.2011

Since it burst onto the scene in the 1970s, the mainstream American environmental movement has too often regarded federal leadership and mandates as t...

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Springtime Detox: A Carbon Fast

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Energy, Global, Carbon Emissions, Mother Earth, Greenhouse Gas, Environment, Pollution, Planet Green, Easter, Lent, Passover, Healthy Living News

Perhaps we need to undertake a Greenhouse Gas Fast during this holy season. How about giving up carbon emissions for Passover and Lent

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Weekly Mulch: Murkowski Vs. the EPA

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Ben Nelson, Epa, Mary Landieu, Regulation, Filibuster, Emissions, Coal, Lisa Murkowski, Auto Emissions, Barbarba Boxer, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Grist, Energy, Scott Brown, Carbon Emissions, Chamber of Commerce, Climate, Resolution of Disapproval, Coal Industry, Endangerment Finding, Greenhouse Gas, Washington Monthly, Public Health, Massachusetts, Care2, Clean Air Act, Blanche Lincoln, Special Interests, Senate, Congressional Reform Act, Home News

Weekly Mulch: Murkowski Vs. the EPABy Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger On Thursday afternoon, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pulled out a rarely-use...

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Bloomberg Drops Greenhouse Gas Initiative

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Michael Bloomberg, Greenhouse Gas, Bloomberg, Emissions, Greenhouse, Green, New York, Green News

After intense opposition from building owners, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has dropped the most far-reaching initiative of his plan for reducing greenh...

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To Tip or Not to Tip -- That Is the Question for Copenhagen

Johan Rockström | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reduce Emissions, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Environment, Emissions, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News

To reduce the risk of tipping into the unknown, we need a new global deal for sustainable development. Copenhagen should be viewed as a first necessary step toward this new deal.

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