A Vow Not To Go Away on Climate Legislation: Climate Action Hotline July 23

July 23, 2010

No sooner had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on Thursday that climate measures would be dropped from a new and much more narrowly focused energy bill than the finger pointing began. Democrats blamed Republican resistance. Republicans countered that not even enough Democrats were wedded to cuts in carbon emissions.  Climate advocates groused [...]

The Hour of Choosing Arrives: American Power Act Introduced in Senate

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network

In a long-awaited proposal designed to secure existing domestic energy sources and develop new ones that begin to reverse the damaging effects of global climate change, New England Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman today introduced comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation.
The co-authors of the bill, one a Democrat from [...]

Oil-Slick Waters: Climate Action Hotline, May 7

May 7, 2010

The one-foot waves today in the Gulf of Mexico were described as “tranquil” as BP started to lower a 70-ton case through 5,000 feet of water to contain the source of an oil leak that threatens the shorelines of four states. Guiding the steel cover over the well shaft [...]

Climategate Debunked: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 16

April 16, 2010

Climate Research Unit,
University of East Anglia

Last year during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, The Guardian newspaper’s respected environmental columnist, George Monbiot, described in painful and often hilarious detail the trail of missteps and communications blunders at East Anglia University that turned a deceitful email hack job into [...]

Picking Up the Pieces: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 9

April 9, 2010
Bonn Marks Start of Intensifying Schedule of Global Climate and Economy Meetings

Today diplomats and climate action specialists met in Bonn for the first international climate meeting since the Copenhagen summit in December. April in fact marks the start of an intensifying schedule of global negotiating sessions on climate [...]

Fighting Climate Change in the Courts

Kivalina is a tiny Inupiat Eskimo village built on a barrier island above the Arctic Circle. Sea ice used to protect the island from winter winds, but now that sea ice is gone and the island is eroding. The Kivalina blame global warming – specifically, a couple dozen oil and utility companies, including Exxon Mobile and [...]

EPA Says Greenhouse Gases Are Dangerous, Can Be Regulated

Yesterday, the EPA announced that global warming pollution endangers the health and welfare of Americans, and must it be reduced. This “endangerment finding” means the EPA will move forward with preparations to regulate large emitters of greenhouse gases.
In 2007, the Supreme Court had ordered the Bush administration to determine whether greenhouse gases were [...]

15-Year-Old Activist Seeks Independence from Fossil Fuels

Alec Loorz was just 12 years old when he first saw An Inconvenient Truth. The film moved him to launch his own Web site and non-profit organization devoted to fighting global warming and encouraging other young people to get involved.
Now Loorz is 15, and his Web site and other projects continue to build momentum. [...]

EPA Presses Case to Regulate Greenhouse Emissions

This week, the EPA is holding public hearings in Arlington, Va., and Chicago on the agency’s proposal to begin regulating global warming gases from power plants, oil refineries, factories and other major sources, under the authority of the Clean Air Act.
The current Clean Air Act regulations for such pollutants as lead, sulfur dioxide, and [...]

Forward Progress in Copenhagen: Climate Action Hotline, Nov. 19

November 19, 2009

Just as in Stockholm in 1972, when global leaders first met to limit the harm caused by industrial pollution, and again in Rio in 1992 and in Kyoto in 1997, the approaching United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is a rare turning point moment for the world to carefully consider [...]

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