greenhouse gas emissions

That’s the warning coming from the Australian government. In a report released Wednesday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority found that the chances of the 345,000 square-foot natural wonder surviving in threats of global warming, pollution and other human-related scourges are “poor.” From Reuters:
“Even with the recent management initiatives to improve resilience, the overall [...]

In a blow to the coal industry’s fight against climate change legislation, Duke Energy, the electric utility giant, has dropped out of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, National Journal reported this morning. The ACCCE raised eyebrows this summer when it was discovered that a firm the group hired to lobby against the [...]

You’d think that, granted the bully pulpit, the Obama administration’s secretary of transportation might actually use it when approached by Congress for advice on public transit funding.
But you’d be wrong.
Asked yesterday by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) if the House-passed climate change bill contains enough funding for public transit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appeared to have [...]

Art’s post today highlights the concern in the scientific community that President-elect Barack Obama could appoint an EPA head who would politicize science as much as Stephen Johnson has. Science bloggers, Art says, are raising red flags about environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is on Obama’s short list for the position.
Just wanted to [...]

The first carbon cap-and-trade program has launched in the U.S. this week.
Ten northeastern states are capping their industrial CO2 emissions at 188 million tons and holding auctions for power plants to trade pollution allowances.