09/Jul 2008 | Rich nations pledge food | Leaders of the world s top industrial powers ended a summit today with pledges to act on soaring oil and food prices, but failed to bridge deep differences with poor nations on fighting climate change... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Gene therapy research in developing world raises ethical red flags: experts | Early stage gene therapy clinical trials are recruiting patients from the developing world, providing medically deprived populations access to interventions that show promise but have largely unknown ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 an ornate debacle | In the end the G8 meeting in Hokkaido became an ornate, hugely expensive debacle a lucid display of how far apart the developed and developing countries are on climate change. To sum up: the Group o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Greenpoint Terminal Market | Greenpoint Home for the Aged. Remember Greenpoint's most famous landlord Josh Guttman? (Hint: he owns the Greenpoint Terminal Market, the one that burned to the ground in a spectacular fire started by... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G-8 leaders ink climate change deal | Wednesday, but failed to convince big emerging economies that rich countries were doing enough. Climate deal fails to convince emerging nations Toyako, Japan: Group of Eight (G8) leaders patched toge... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Plovers back on a crowded Revere Beach | By Beth Daley, Globe Staff It used to be that piping plovers and people didn't mix. After the tiny shorebird was listed as threatened in 1986 under the Federal Endangered Species Act, beaches along th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., Provider of WeatherTRAK, Joins | Office Depot Foundation Supports Recovery From Midwest Floods For. ING Foundation Contributes $1 Million to Iowa Disaster-Relief. HydroPoint Data Systems HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., Provider of Wea... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Climate Change Shell Game at the G-8 Summit | 3 Opinion: Don't be fooled by the glowing language and self-congratulatory air wafting like a bad smell from the G-8 statements on Climate Change. Bush and Stephen Harper, climate change obstructionis... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | What is NEPA For Today? The Sonar Case Part 3 | Like many of our disruptions of the Earth, high energy active sonar has enabled us to do seemingly miraculous things like locate and track a very distant (quiet) submarine. The trouble is always wha... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Public Hearing to Be Held for Proposal on Air Pollutant | 1646)(readMedia)-- As part of its strategy to meet the annual federal standard for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last year, the N... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Thanks Caoimhin! | Opinion: Don't be fooled by the glowing language and self-congratulatory air wafting like a bad smell from the G-8 statements on Climate Change. Bush and Stephen Harper, climate change obstructionists... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Carlson Supports Climate Change Recommendations Considered by Global Leaders | Marilyn Carlson Nelson and Hubert Joly of Carlson, a global hotel, marketing, restaurant and travel company, are among 100 influential, top executives who have endorsed a comprehensive climate change ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Conservation groups urge Schafer not to release CRP land | WASHINGTON, D. -- Fifteen conservation groups today sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer strongly urging him to reject pressure from Congress and producer groups "to allow the penalty-fre... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Renewables, clean coal win in Senate spending bill | Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons, more than the weight of 50 adult elephants. Th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jaeger, DiCaprio Unveil Time to Care | 7/9/2008 12:38:00 PMLuxury Swiss watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre in partnership with actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio has created its "Time to Care" program, to benefit the Leonardo DiCaprio Fund ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bronx Residents Sue Over Smelly Sewage | Residents of a polluted neighborhood sued the city and a waste recycling company Wednesday, saying that putrid odors emanating from two nearby sewage facilities are ruining their lives. Residents in t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Local Government Responsible for 1% of Statewide GHG | California Land Use, Environmental & Real Estate Lawyer & Attorney : Abbott & Kindermann Law Firm : Sacramento, CA . Home > Climate Change > Local Government Responsible for 1% of Statewide GHG Emiss... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bush lauds G-8 leaders for climate work, trade issues | From left to right, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula sa Silva, South African President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mlbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao s... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Challenge Filed to BP Permit for Refinery Expansion | Wednesday against BP's construction permit for its northwest Indiana refinery. District Court in Hammond on Wednesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a federal challenge to construction p... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Carlson Supports Climate Change Recommendations To Be Considered By Global Leaders At Annual Summit | July 09, 2008 // Franchising.com // Minneapolis - Marilyn Carlson Nelson and Hubert Joly of Carlson, a global hotel, marketing, restaurant and travel company, are among 100 influential, top executives... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Rich nations pledge action at G8 | Leaders of the world's top industrial powers have ended a summit on Wednesday with pledges to act on soaring oil and food prices, but failed to bridge deep differences with poor nations on fighting cl... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Roskam & Shimkus: America Can Be Energy Independent in 15 Years | Congressman Roskam Introduces Plan to Lower Gas Prices and Secure America's Energy Independence CHICAGO, IL - Congressman Peter J. John Shimkus (R-IL) as he introduced legislation aimed at drastically... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmentalists Sue BP in Federal Court | InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has filed a lawsuit in Hammond against BP's new Whiting plant air permit for violations of the Clean Air Act. Our partners... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Leaders Statement on Global Food Security | 1. We are deeply concerned that the steep rise in global food prices coupled with availability problems in a number of developing countries is threatening global food security. The negative impacts of... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmentalists sue to stop refinery expansion on lake | SOUTH BEND, Ind. - An environmental group filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to halt BP's $3.8 billion expansion of its Whiting refinery, saying the company needs to obtain a more string... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Official Reports & News on Australian Crisis | This is simply unbelievable. Unless radical action is taken quickly, this means " the eventual destruction of sites including the Great Barrier Reef --- and the nation's food bowl ---" . A plague of... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | BP Whiting s air permit challenged | The Natural Resources Defense Council filed an appeal today against BP Whiting s plant modernization project air permit in federal court in Hammond. The NRDC argues that BP and the Indiana Department ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Offshore oil reserves beckoning anew | Every year for nearly three decades, Congress has considered whether to allow more oil drilling in coastal waters, including those off San Diego County. And every year, it has maintained a ban on expa... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | China, India snub world on targets | Page 1 of 3 | Single Page View . CHINA, India and other major developing nations have rejected a push by the world's richest countries for them to commit to firm targets on cutting greenhouse gas emis... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | TVA-N.C. suit over emissions goes to trial Monday | TVA is set to go to trial Monday in Asheville, N., to defend charges by the state of North Carolina that emissions from TVA s coal-fired power plants are fouling the Tar Heel state s air. The lawsuit,... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Summit has not delivered enough leadership on climate change-UNEP | The top UN official dealing with the environment says the Group of 8 industrialized countries has not shown enough leadership on climate change. Head of the UN Environment Programme Achim Steiner says... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | G8 Summit Leaders Wish: Painful 50% Emissions Reduction | ABOUT CEI. CEI Commends Insurance Reform Hearings June 10, 2008 Senate Poised to Debate Lieberman-Warner Energy-Rationing Bill May 30, 2008., July 8, 2008 Leaders of the G8 Summit indicated today they... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Groups Oppose Early Out for CRP | WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Fifteen conservation groups Wednesday sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer urging him to reject pressure from Congress and producer groups to allow the penalty-free ea... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Carbon Capture and Storage A False Solution | Global Warming | Tagged Global Warming Too late to be of use, much too expensive, ineffective, and unsafe. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is intended to reduce the impact of burning fossil fuels by ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Redesigning Urban Transport | Sustainability | Tagged Sustainability The world s cities are facing unprecedented problems. In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | BP sued in federal court | HAMMOND | Environmentalists are taking another swing at BP s new Whiting plant air permit, this time by suing the company in federal court. The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a suit Wednesday... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Pennsylvania Passes Climate Change Act | Pennsylvania, a state that was known for coal production in the 20th century, hopes to set a more environmentally friendly course under the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act, approved by the state assem... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Alberta To Put $4B Into GHG Reduction | The provincial government of Alberta, Canada announced that it would put CAD$4 billion into two funds aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The funds will be split equally between a fund t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Arrest inequality, empower people | Henry George in his brilliant treatise Progress and Poverty (1879) has aptly pointed out that the law of progress throughout human history has been towards the reduction or removal of the grosser ineq... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | CRP In the News This Week | 7/9/2008 Pro Farmer Editors The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is certainly making headlines this week , including the issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) by a U. District Court judge... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Director WWF G8 | EMSI Consults on First LEED(R) Gold-Certified Commercial Building. The Feol-Hinricher Companies Take an Environmental Leadership by. The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Director WWF Glob... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bronx residents sue city over stench | Lombard for News Members of Mothers on the Move, a community-based group that is one of the plaintiffs in the suit against the city, gather in Barretto Park Wednesday. NEW YORK - Residents of a pollu... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Mrs. Tibaijuka cites importance of rural linkages and sustainable urbanisation | In a world confronted by surging food and oil prices, this year s session of the Economic and Social Council, one of the three principal organs of the United Nations, is dedicated to highlighting the ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Whitehouse in climate change "cover up" | Whitehouse in climate change "cover up" Reuters 2008-07-09 A leading U. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of a "cover-up" aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agen... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Michigan's Blue Bubble | Let s be honest. Michigan doesn t act like water is it's most valuable asset. No doubt there are plenty of news reports and speeches dedicated to the urgent necessity of eliminating sewage spills into... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Data Protection Solutions Preferred by Users | Video. Symantec News Release Symantec Data Protection Solutions Preferred by Users and Industry Experts Veritas NetBackup and Symantec Backup Exec achieve worldwide recognitions, awards Symantec Corp.... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Equal Emissions Cuts "Unreasonable": Economists | With leaders of developed and emerging economies unable to agree on emissions targets during a special climate change summit held at a Japanese mountain resort, which capped off the annual Group of Ei... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Leaders still vague on emissions targets | World leaders met this week in Toyako on the Japanese island of Hokkaido to discuss climate change among other global problems. But progress on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions seems increasingly u... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bobsleigh track makes way for mountain goat | Conservationists have praised the decision to move a number of venues for the 2014 winter Olympics in Russia to avoid damaging a protected site. The United Nations and the International Union for Cons... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | RIT and Monroe County Announce New Sustainability Partnership | Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, together with the Rochester Institute of Technology s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, today announced a partnership that will result in the creation of a ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | WWF Gets New Channel on UNEP-Partnered Green.tv | WWF Gets New Channel on UNEP-Partnered Green.tv 8 July 2008 WWF has launched its own dedicated television channel to bring high quality campaign and conservation videos to a worldwide audience. The ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Missed Opportunity for G8 Leaders on Climate Change | Missed Opportunity for G8 Leaders on Climate Change Nairobi, 9 July 2008 - As the G8 Summit wrapped up in Japan, Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, said... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Ex-EPA Deputy Rats Out Cheney, Gives 125K To Dems | Why so much climate change talk is hot air .. Australians Deluded by Latest Climate Change Report. Last week we introduced you to the EPA's former associate deputy administrator Jason Burnett, who res... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The UN climate change numbers hoax | Tom Harris and John McLeanIt s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: 2500 scientists of the United Nation s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agr... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NYC Green Rooftops to Reap Tax Credits | July 9, 2008 Building owners in New York City who install green rooftops will now receive a significant tax credit under a bill that passed the state legislature on June 25. Owners who install green r... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Green Up Your E-mail | Of all your B2B marketing efforts, e-mail seemingly has the least environmental impact. But sending all those messages electronically hasn't led to a paperless office. The more we use computers and pr... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | White House accused of climate change cover-up | White House accused of climate change cover-up Sen. Boxer claims Administration held back reports showing greenhouse gases endanger public welfare. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on T... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Outdoor Medicine and the Environment 3 | Storm Case Independence Day Thank You to The Covert Rationing Blog for Grand R. Tomatoes and Salmonella Smoke from Wildfires The DAN Guide to Dive Medical Frequently Asked Que. Thank You to Shrink Rap... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Climate Change - an Unmitigated Disaster On the Loose | Disasters such as floods and droughts, a direct impact of the phenomenon, have already killed and affected millions. Other effects of climate change according to scientists include food insecurity, il... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Environmental Groups Mad at Rell s Proposed Changes | A coalition of environmental groups said Tuesday that an 11th hour decision by Gov. Jodi Rell to alter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative threatens Connecticut s participation in the cap and trade... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Dr. Jean Brennan: We shouldn't give up on the ESA or any species in jeopardy | During the June 25 meeting in Boise on climate change impacts in the Columbia River Basin, reporter Rocky Barker questioned the adequacy of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) under the observed and pred... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Growing and Growing | SciTech Home. Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only known glaciers in the ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Robot Snakes, Smart Farmers, Flying Ships and a Different Sort of Science Fiction | Lots of stuff going on today (media interviews, writing to be done, etc.), but here are some tidbits to tide you over: Scandinavian scientists designing robotic snakes : The robot is designed to have ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Stocks pull back in early trading as oil rebo | Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, claiming in a summit valedictory that "significant progress" has been made on global warming. "In order to ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Summit's climate-change pledge 'fails to set targets' | 09/07/2008 - 08:42:09 The world s top producers of greenhouse gases pledged to battle climate change today, but failed to agree on targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Not Fooled | Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on E... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Hu Calls on Major Economies to Combat Climate Change | Attends Meeting on Energy Security, Climate Change President Hu Elaborates on China's Stance on Climate Change G8 Summit Ends with Talks on Climate Change President Hu Leaves for Home after G8 Outre... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Industrialized nations forge global climate pact | West-side Pizza Hut hit by acid bomb. Scott Moore starts interim city manager role Monday . RUSUTSU, Japan - President Bush and leaders of the world's richest nations pledged Tuesday to "move toward a... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | IPCC: 1.6Bn People Have No Access To Electricity | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said that 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity and one out of every four people in the world without access to electricity is an Indian... Read » |
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