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How Much Has The U.S. Warmed Since The First Earth Day?

Posted 04.22.2013 | Green

From Climate Central: In commemoration of Earth Day, 2013, Climate Central has created an interactive graphic that shows a state-by-state analysis ...

2012 Officially Confirmed As Hottest Year On Record For Contiguous U.S.

Posted 01.09.2013 | Green

From Climate Central's Andrew Freedman: It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced...

Western U.S. Demonstrates Scale of Climate Challenge

Deborah Gordon | Posted 02.11.2013 | Green
Deborah Gordon

Western Lands, both in the Rocky Mountain and High Plains states, could be an increasingly active area for these oil drilling and production activities.

US and EU Must Show Leadership and Responsibility in Climate Talks

Antonio Tujan Jr. | Posted 02.05.2013 | Green
Antonio Tujan Jr.

The U.S. often projects a self-ascribed role of acting for the benefit of others in the world. At COP18 it, along with the EU, must move beyond a concern for its interests alone, and live up to its obligation to act for the other people inhabiting this planet.

Ignored During Campaign, Climate Change Talk Heats Up

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.15.2013 | Green

WASHINGTON -- Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax. On Tu...

Generation to Generation; Crisis to Crisis

John B. Kassel | Posted 12.29.2012 | Green
John B. Kassel

So what's an American Boomer to do? Wake up. Accept responsibility. Our resource-gobbling lifestyle has caused this mess. Suburbanization has wasted U.S. resources for two generations. Change it, now.

Climate Change This Week: Cornographic Subsidies, Japanese Tiger, and More

Mary Ellen Harte | Posted 10.13.2012 | Green
Mary Ellen Harte

Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future.

U.S. Affirms Support For U.N. Climate Goal After Criticism

Reuters | Posted 10.08.2012 | Green

OSLO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The United States reaffirmed support for a U.N. goal of limiting global warming after criticism from the European Union and ...

Which States Are Seeing The Greatest Warming?

Posted 06.12.2012 | Green

From Climate Central: Global warming isn't uniform. The continental U.S. has warmed by about 1.3°F over the past 100 years, but the temperature in...

Is The New Global Climate Change Agreement Missing Something Major?

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 02.17.2012 | Green

A recently announced climate change agreement between the United States and several other countries aims to reduce pollutant emissions, but it is draw...

Science Loses Status as a Climate Arbiter in Durban

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 02.11.2012 | Green
Shawn Lawrence Otto

The EU, Australia, and a few others will continue to attempt unilateral cuts to their emissions, but the leading polluters, China, India and the U.S., will not make substantive emissions cuts until at least a decade from now.

U.N. Chief: U.S. A 'Very Serious Hand Brake' On World Climate Change Efforts

AP | By CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 07.13.2011 | Green

NEW YORK -- Washington's inaction on climate legislation is a "very serious hand brake" on world efforts to combat global warming, the U.N. climate ch...

Western U.S. Water Supplies Threatened

AP | By MATTHEW DALY | Posted 06.26.2011 | Green

WASHINGTON -- Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of w...

The Lonely American

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Carl Pope

That's me, the lonely American, as I watch heads of state, environmental ministers, and political luminaries from nation after nation deal head on with the issue of rescuing the climate from impending disaster.

Green Group Says U.S. Climate Bill Won't Hurt Farms

cnbc.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Global warming poses more of a threat to U.S. farm incomes than does the climate change bill passed by the U.S. House, which will have a "negligible" ...

U.S. Climate Change Commitment Questioned By European Leaders

New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES KANTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

As world leaders gather in New York for the highest-level conference yet on climate change, European leaders are expressing growing unease about the U...

China, US Held Secret Talks On Climate Change Deal

Guardian | Suzanne Goldenberg, US Environment Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

A high-powered group of senior Republicans and Democrats led two missions to China in the final months of the Bush administration for secret backchann...