WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday criticized China and other leading developing countries for trying to weaken the Copenhagen Accord ...
Obama administration to set up new agency to study, monitor climate change The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Temperatures in Tibet rose last year to the highest level since records began for the remote Himalayan region, which scientists say is particularly vulnerable to global warming, state media reported on Friday. The average temperature in Tibet in 2009 ...
GOP lawmakers seek to suspend Calif. greenhouse gas law championed by Schwarzenegger Republican lawmakers in California are circulating a ballot initiative backed by business interests that would suspend California's landmark law to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a signature policy of Gov. Arnold ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Certain countries and companies feel threatened by growing efforts against climate change, the U.N. climate chief said on Thursday, after other officials spoke of a campaign to undermine a consensus on global warming. Yvo de Boer spoke amid ...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - If fighting climate change was an Olympic sport, the organizing committee for this month's Vancouver Winter Games would have won a bronze medal, a report released on Wednesday says. Organizers have done a good job in areas such as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With congressional action on climate legislation in doubt, two House committee chairmen have filed a bill to block the government from regulating greenhouse gases under its own power. The lawmakers say Congress, not "unelected bureaucrats," should set environmental policy. ...
The laughable title of Obama's 2011 budget is "A New Era of Responsibility." That's some pretty amazing unintentional comedy, exemplified by the fraudulent non-accounting for climate taxes. The budget explains away the blank lines next to "Allowance for Climate Policy" by saying ...
Skelton and Emerson to propose barring EPA from developing own greenhouse gas emissions rules Two congressional members from Missouri said Tuesday that they plan to file legislation blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from developing its own greenhouse gas rules. U.S. Reps. Ike ...
UN officials says nations' greenhouse gas pledges likely to fall short of key goal Goals on reducing greenhouse gases announced by major industrialized nations are a step forward but not enough to forestall the disastrous effects of climate change by midcentury, U.N. ...
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Canadian government will keep supporting development of Alberta's oil sands while it follows the U.S. lead on setting targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the country's environment minister said on Monday. The oil sands, a frequent target ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Nations accounting for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions have restated their promises to fight climate change, meeting a Sunday deadline in a low-key endorsement of December's "Copenhagen Accord." Experts say their promised curbs on greenhouse gas emissions ...
