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RTI International supports EPA`s development of the first climate change regulation
With the support of researchers at RTI International and other contractors, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week proposed the first comprehensive national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major sources in the United States. Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, are produced by the burning of fossil fuels and through industrial ...
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Authoritative Book on Global Warming and U.S. Law Published
Chicago, Illinois - The American Bar Association has just published a new book that presents comprehensive coverage of U.S. law as it relates to global climate change. 'Global Climate Change and U.S. Law,' is edited by Michael Gerrard, a partner in the New York office of Arnold & Porter, where he heads the environmental practice group. After a summary of the factual and scientific ...
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CSE Hosts Certified Carbon Strategy Training in Chicago
On March 8th and 9th, 2013, the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) hosted its Certified Carbon Strategy Practitioner Training in Chicago. Participants included environmental managers, sustainability specialists, and strategic development professionals from a wide range of business sectors. Nikos Avlonas, President and Founder of CSE, served as the lead facilitator for the training ...
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EPA Proposes Approval of Arkansas GHG Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to approve the State of Arkansas’ program for permitting new facilities that will emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs). If approved, the state’s program will replace a federal plan that had been in place since January 2011. Final approval would provide the State of Arkansas with authority to issue GHG permits and ...
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New York Summit prepares the way for Copenhagen
UN Chief says a one-day climate change summit has given fresh impetus to efforts to tackle climate change, reports Envido.UN Secretary General has said that the chances of a global climate change deal being agreed later this year at December's crucial climate change meeting in Copenhagen had increased significantly following a one-day climate change summit in New York.His optimism was the result ...
By Vital Energi
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Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture Release 2011 Canada 200 Report: Many Companies Now Integrate Climate Change into Strategy
Many major Canadian corporations are integrating climate change into their business strategies even though there is no regulatory requirement to do so, according to new findings published today by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Accenture. The 2011 Canada 200 study shows seventy-five percent of responding companies are already integrating climate change into ...
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EPA and Texas work together on first joint Greenhouse Gas Permit in Texas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas permit (GHG) to Equistar Chemicals, Corpus Christi, Texas. The permit is the first to be drafted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and issued by EPA under a program to help to improve permitting efficiency and productivity for applicants in the State of Texas. “The joint permitting ...
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Deadly effect of farming’s dirty needs
Farming is a dirty business – so dirty now that, according to new research, air pollution from agriculture in the form of fine particles of lung-choking dust outweighs all other human sources of that kind of pollution. These particles are calculated to cause around 3.3 million deaths a year worldwide − and most of this lung-penetrating murk is from fertilisers. Back in 1950, the ...
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Climate Change Having Major Effect on U.S. Law, ABA Book Finds
CHICAGO May 25, 2007 – Though Congress has not adopted any laws that explicitly require the control of greenhouse gas emissions, concern over climate change has already begun to have a significant effect on U.S. law. Most of the states and many cities have adopted laws aimed at climate change. Lawsuits have been brought all over the country concerning the applicability of the Clean Air Act, the ...
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Can congress thwart EPA’s emission standards proposal?
Late last month, the day after the U.S.’s 111th Congress officially adjourned, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced that, despite the fact lawmakers failed to pass President Barack Obama’s ambitious energy bill, the organization would tackle climate change within its own means by regulating greenhouse gas emissions for power plants and refineries. In the wake of that ...
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US asks for comments on planned greenhouse gas law
The public will have an opportunity to comment before the US Environmental Protection Agency takes any action to regulate the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, EPA chief Stephen Johnson told members of Congress in a letter last Thursday. Johnson said he will solicit public input through an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as the agency considers the specific effects of climate ...
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Siemens Report Urges Cities to Plan Now for Arrival of Autonomous Vehicles
Report urges urban areas to use connected and autonomous vehicles to refocus urban environments on citizens rather than carsConnecting autonomous vehicles to intelligent transport infrastructures can maximize their benefitGreatest benefit from autonomous vehicles will emerge from capacity to provide "first and last mile" trips and help city government provide new transport services The advent ...
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Commission unveils package to tackle illegal logging and deforestation
The European Commission today unveiled two important initiatives to protect forests globally. The package comprises a legislative proposal to reduce the risk of illegal timber and timber products entering the EU market and a Communication setting out the Commission's proposals for tackling tropical deforestation. Illegal logging and deforestation have serious environmental implications, ...
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Climate case at Supreme Court looks at EPA`s power
The Obama administration is squaring off at the Supreme Court with industry groups and Republican-led states over a small but important program aimed at limiting power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in a challenge to a regulation that forces companies that want to expand industrial facilities or build new ones that ...
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Tracing CO2 elements in the ocean
The surface waters of the vast Southern Ocean are suffering from 'marine anaemia' – a serious deficiency in the micronutrient iron. Just as iron deficiency negatively affects the health and productivity of humans and other land-based creatures, so it affects the phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) existing in the oceanic realm. The environmental consequences of this condition restrict ...
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Rich Panoply of Giving Marks Third Clinton Global Initiative
NEW YORK, New York, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - When the formal portion of the third annual Clinton Global Initiative closed in New York on Friday, former President Bill Clinton announced that participants' commitments will result in 170 million acres of forest protected or restored, plus millions of people with better access to health care, sustainable incomes, and education.'Giving,' the title of ...
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IPCC Reports Quick Action Can Avert Worst Climate Impacts
BANGKOK, Thailand, (ENS) – Catastropic global warming can be avoided without excessive economic cost but the world must begin to act at once, a UN climate change panel representing 2,500 international scientists said today. The world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases over the next several decades by utilizing cost-effective policies and current and ...
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Leading global investors call on car manufacturers to provide greater transparency on risks from climate change
Institutional investors released new climate disclosure guidelines for the auto industry today and called on car manufacturers to strengthen their reporting on the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. The appeal to car manufacturers comes as the Obama Administration announces plans to consider developing a single federal policy for regulating emissions from vehicles. Investors ...
By Ceres
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White House stifled evidence of climate change health risks
Officials in the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office pressured federal health and environmental officials to edit congressional testimony to downplay the public health impacts of climate change, according to a former senior official with the US Environmental Protection Agency. Senior Senate Democrats contend the allegations of Jason Burnett, the EPA's former top climate advisor, ...
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One step at a time: IRP 2019
The IRP 2019 is the latest addition to the array of legal instruments South Africa has adopted to transition to a low carbon economy and as part of its commitment to adapt to and mitigate against climate change under the international climate change framework. We have seen a marked increase in climate change-related legislation and regulations in recent years, including the mandatory greenhouse ...
By VUKA Group
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