Associated Press: Democrats were close Thursday to pushing through a sharply divided House committee a…
Month: May 2009
Ecuador: Chevron faces shareholder rebuke on claims by Amazon rainforest Indians
Mongabay: Calpers, the country’s largest public pension fund with $170 billion in assets, announced Thursday…
U.S. to rely more on scientists for air rules: EPA
Reuters: The U.S. government will reverse a Bush administration policy and increase the role of…
House Committee Close to Finishing Climate Bill
Bloomberg: A House committee will vote today on climate-change legislation to reduce greenhouse gases and…
Ban Ki-moon calls for “green deal”
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a “green new deal” on climate change on…
Obama team walks a tightrope on climate change
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on climate change — and so…
House panel advances global warming bill
Associated Press: Legislation imposing the first nationwide limits on the pollution blamed for global warming…
House panel approves climate change bill
Reuters: A key U.S. House of Representatives committee on Thursday approved legislation to tackle climate…
In Brazil, extreme weather stokes climate worries
Reuters: No one could say they hadn’t seen it coming. The sand dunes had been…
Energy bill to combat climate change takes a leap forward
San Jose Mercury News: A historic, comprehensive energy bill — the first to tackle climate…