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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A Climate Plan for the New Administration

Richard Ayres | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Energy, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Epa, Politics News
Richard Ayres

Obama has said he plans to move forward with legislation to address global warming. But he needn't wait to get started. Laws already on the books provide authority for swift Presidential action.

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More Bad News: US Government Releases 2007 Greenhouse Gas Report

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Us Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2007, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Department of Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Kevin Grandia, Green News
Kevin Grandia

What's it going to take to turn this oil and coal burning, greenhouse gas spewing super tanker around?

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His Keyboard Versus the Climate

Peter Schwartz | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Honeywell, Dupont, General Motors, Greenhouse Gases, Ford, Epa, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Green News
Peter Schwartz

Emptying one canister of a little air blaster from Office Depot can release greenhouse gas equivalent to driving a smallish car across the country and halfway back again.

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Against a Gas Tax

David Roberts | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Infrastructure, Gas Prices, Green Infrastructure, Gas Tax, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transportation, Green News
David Roberts

The changes we need in transportation are not something car companies or consumers can do on their own. What's needed is beyond new habits and new vehicles -- it's new infrastructure.

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Barack Obama's Bridge to the 22nd Century

Clint Wilder | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, President-Elect Barack Obama, Malia Obama, Ann Nixon Cooper, S Renewable Energy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Fossil Fuels, Obama Family, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, Green News
Clint Wilder

2104 is the year that ten-year-old Malia Obama would turn 106, and her younger sister Sasha would do so in 2108. What will the nation and the world look like then?

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Obama v. Bush: Climate Change Executive Order Reversals, Could Establish National Energy Council (Video Roundup)

George Spyros | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Auto Emissions, President Barack Obama, Climate Change, Fight Global Warming, Fight Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Law, Environmental Legislation, Legislation, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Automobile Emissions, Californina, Green News
George Spyros

President-elect Obama's top priority of stimulating the economy and create jobs will involve new environmental actions aimed at having long-term benefits.

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Biofuel Jets: No Longer A Flight of Fancy

Green Inc. | Kate Galbraith | Posted 11.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Boeing, Renewable Energy, Environment, Airplanes, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Technology, Green News

Will aircraft one day run on fuel made from algae or grass? It seems like a flight of fancy, but with Europe planning to cap greenhouse gas emissions ...

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Want to Know the Carbon Emissions for Your Mac?

Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Ipod, Apple Iphone, Apple, Climate Change, Environment, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technology, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions Mac, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Apple has released its 2008 environmental report and here's a handy list I've pulled together from their report on the total greenhouse emissions for each model.

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The Eco-Sins (and Virtues) of Barack Obama

Jeanie Pyun | Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Collar Jobs, Michelle Obama, Renewable Energy Sources, Carbon Emissions, Smoking, Hybrid Cars, Nuclear Power, Sarah Palin, Environment, Green Living, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeanie Pyun

Senator Barack Obama's environmental platform is pretty clear. He supports clean coal, would create five million green-collar jobs if elected President, and would put a million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015.

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Mayors "Get It" on Climate Change

Jonathan Lash | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Politics, San Francisco, Green Cities, New York City, Global Warming, Chicago, Mayor Bloomberg, Greenhouse Gases, City Development Infrastructure, Mayor Daley, May Gavin Newsome, Green Living, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News
Jonathan Lash

Some of the biggest U.S. mega-cities are stepping up in a big way on global warming.

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Carbon Trading Catching On

Chicago Public Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 10.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Cap and Trade, Chicago Climate Exchange, Richard Sandor, Green Exchange, Chicago Greenhouse Gas Trading, Carbon Trading, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Chicago Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chicago News

While the financial markets flounder, one exchange in Chicago had a record day this week. The Chicago Climate Exchange hosted its biggest trading day ...

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Is It Too Late to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change?

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Dangerous Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Temperatures, Green News
Bill Chameides

Scientists call it DAI -- "dangerous anthropogenic interference" with the climate system. The United States along with 191 other countries pledged to ...

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Is It Just Green Nuts Buying Renewable Energy?

GreenBiz | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Reducing Emissions, Renewable Energy, Green Living, Buying Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Energy, Renewable Energy Programs, Green News

Electrical power generation accounts for 40% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the US. Such a high concentration of GHGs is due to ou...

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EcoDriving

Charley Territo | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Fuel Efficiency, Ecodriving, Green News
Charley Territo

EcoDriving can extract the highest mileage out of every single vehicle, regardless of size or age, so it gives us the opportunity to have an impact on our nation's entire fleet of 240 million automobiles.

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Greening Hollywood: Solar Taxi Makes Pit Stop at Bbq in The 'Bu

Paige Donner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Cars, Greening Hollywood, Fuel Efficient Vehicles, Larry Hagman, Solar Taxi, Off the Grid, James Cameron, Solar Panels, Malibu Colony, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Brian Grazer, Global Circumnavigation, Green News
Paige Donner

The bbq in the 'Bu was held out in the Malibu Colony after the SolarTaxi spent the day making friends and fans at the Malibu Arts Festival.

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Greening Hollywood: Sen. John Edwards Gets His Green On

Paige Donner | Posted 08.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, New Orleans, 9th Ward, Energy Efficiency, Brad Pitt, Renewable Energy Sources, Climate Change, Make It Right, Sustainable Design, Coastal Flooding, Senator John Edwards, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Green USA, Green News
Paige Donner

Former Presidential candidate and Democrat from North Carolina, Senator John Edwards joined Santa Monica based Global Green USA Friday as a co-chairma...

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The $64,000 Question for Obama and McCain on Climate

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

The new president will have the power to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on January 21, 2009. The question is: Will he?

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White House Whistle-Blower Reveals Bush Admin's Environmental Foibles

New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Green New Deal, Cdc, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, Climate Change, Dick Cheney, Environment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Whistle-Blowers, Cheney Global Warming, Epa, Bush Global Warming, Cheney Cover-Up, EPA Testimony, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, G8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News

Jason K. Burnett, Washington's environmental whistle-blower du jour, is an example of a once rare, now almost common, phenomenon: a political appointe...

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Mitigating Global Warming: The Devil Is in the Pathway

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

A number of people I've spoken with were surprised that such interim targets matter. "What difference does it make," they've asked, "how we get to the reduction, as long as we get there?" Well, it makes a big difference. Here's why.

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Remember Global Warming? That's Okay, Most People Apparently Don't, Either

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: G8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hurricanes, Van Jones, Cheney Global Warming, Bush Global Warming, Epa, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Green New Deal, Climate Change, An Inconvenient Truth, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Claire McCaskill, Carly Fiorina, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

What has the public reaction to the Bush administration's decision to pass the buck on global warming for a year (a year we may not be able to spare) been? Vast silence.

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Bush's Johnson Releases Lame Duck Poison

David Sassoon | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse Gases, George W. Bush, Epa, Stephen Johnson, Green News
David Sassoon

No matter how you slice it, the regulation of greenhouse gases will have a profound effect on every sector of the economy. And we need profound effects, quickly.

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Cheney Wanted To Delete Major Parts Of Environmental Testimony

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, EPA Testimony, Dick Cheney, Environment, Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cheney Cover-Up, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cdc, Climate Change, Green News

WASHINGTON — Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed to delete from congressional testimo...

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The EPA Documents The White House Doesn't Want You To See

Kate Sheppard | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, White House, George W Bush, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Emissions, Reducing Emissions, Green News
Kate Sheppard

EPA officials concluded that the benefits of new, tougher standards "far outweigh their costs." If gas prices stay around $3.50 a gallon, "the net benefit to society could be in excess of $2 trillion."

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Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

Janet Ritz | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: No Ice North Pole, The Environmentalist, Green News, North Pole Ice, North Pole, Green, Science, Permafrost, Climate Crisis, Methane, Greenhouse Effect, Arctic, Sea Ice, Rising Sea Level, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, c02, Green News
Janet Ritz

A new study warns that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, and this summer may see the first ice-free North Pole for the first time in recorded history.

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White House Bounces EPA Reality Check

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Gas Prices, Fossil Fuels, Fuel Efficiency Standards, Oil, Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, China, Oil Prices, Environmentalism, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Americans -- who make up just four percent of the planet's population -- use about 25% of the world's resources. For the greatest, best country on the face of the earth, we sure suck at math.

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