Senate Votes Not to Block EPA on Greenhouse Gas Limits
Filed under: Environment, Economy, Energy, Obama Administration, Climate ChangeThe Senate has rejected Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's bill to stop an EPA plan imposing limits on greenhouse gas emissions -- without the consent of Congress. Permalink&...
Climate Scientists Urge Action to Curb Global Warming
Filed under: Environment, Climate Change
Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.
Climate Scientists Urge Aggressive Action to Curb Global Warming
Filed under: Environment, Climate Change
Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.
Switzerland Takes a Little Piece of Italy, Courtesy of Melting Glaciers
Filed under: Environment, Woman Up, International
Due to global warming, Switzerland may be losing huge swaths of the glaciers that have long covered the Alps, but as of Wednesday it's also gained approximately 150 meters of Italian territory.Bloomberg reports that, after the Swiss...
Chamber of Commerce: Put Global Warming Claims on Trial
Filed under: Environment, Religion, Energy
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking on a new role: scientific skeptic.The L.A. Times reports that the organization is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to put climate change evidence up for a public hearing -- and says it...
Obama Energy Policy: Poll Shows General Support
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Barack Obama, Environment, Economy, Media, Taxes, Energy, Obama Administration
For the Obama administration, all the uproar over health care seems to have sapped the strength of opponents struggling to block the equally ambitious...
National Security Concerns Could Power Energy Bill to Senate Passage
Filed under: Environment, Energy
If Congress performs the miraculous feat of passing President Obama's two top priorities by the end of the year, we may have a crew of veterans and military experts to thank. Even as health care battles rage on, they're laying the groundwork...The National Parks and Climate Change: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Filed under: Environment, Energy
If you want to see glaciers in Glacier National Park, you had better hurry. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that within 20 years, the park will be empty of glaciers. As temperatures rise and politicians debate how to respond to climate change, the national parks already seem to...Has Obama Given Up on Global Warming Treaty?
Filed under: Barack Obama, Environment, Obama Administration, Deep Background
Has President Barack Obama decided that it won't be possible to craft a comprehensive treaty to reduce global warming emissions when the nations of the world gather in Copenhagen in December for what's been billed as a critical climate...Senate Democrats Force Climate Bill Through Committee Despite Republican Boycott
Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Environment
Democratic senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee dismissed a Republican boycott of the panel's markup session and passed a climate change bill 11-1, with only Sen. Max Baucus of Montana opposing. When Republicans refused to attend markup...Obama Urged to Attend Climate Summit With Bipartisan Senate Plan in Hand
An environmentalist and a retired vice admiral made the case Thursday that President Obama should personally attend the Copenhagen climate-change summit next month and bring with him two substantial signs that America is serious about curbing global warming: the sweeping cap-and-trade bill already passed by the House, and a bipartisan framework for getting a climate...
How Hard Is Obama Trying on Global Warming?
Filed under: Barack Obama, Environment, Deep Background
President Barack Obama is lucky that the health care reform endeavor is overwhelming the political system and causing concern among his liberal base, for it's distracting from a key matter where he has fallen short: climate change.While on his current...
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