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- Five-Step ENERGY STAR Campaign Can Save Energy, Money, Environment; Average Home Can Cause More Greenhouse Gas Emissions than Average Car
- WASHINGTON, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- What few people realize is that the average home can cause more greenhouse gas emissions than the average car. EPA is calling on Americans to protect our environment by taking five steps in their own homes to improvWASHINGTON, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
- Research articles 2004-06-16
- Governor Rendell Tells U.S. Senate Committee Californias Greenhouse Gas Waiver Important to PAs Health, Environment, Economy
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- Research articles 2008-01-24
- School District's Leadership Improves Learning Environment
- Part of the Hardee County School District's mission is to provide quality teaching and learning opportunities for its community by working together to achieve common goals. The program has allowed Hardee County School District to cut energy and operating costs while improving the quality of its maintenance practices and classroom...
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- Green is gold; Initiatives paying off financially for industries and environment.(News)(firms are focusing on the green power marketplace)
- Byline: Elizabeth Thompson Beckley Representatives of several companies testified at last week's forum on sustainable business that energy and cost savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions have justified their delving into the green power Byline: Elizabeth Thompson Beckley...
- Research articles 2003-03-17
- CLIMATE CHANGE: ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN PROGRAMME.
- COP6: Continuing disagreements.Focused on the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions the COP6 meeting is "the last chance to revive the Kyoto Protocol. And yet six weeks before it starts, the major countries and groups of countries COP6: Continuing disagreements.Focused on the Kyoto Protocol...
- Research articles 2000-10-13
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- Natsource Reports Significant Increases In Greenhouse Gas Trading in 2004
- Energy Editors/Business Editors/Science Writers/Political Writers/Environment Writers WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--June 9, 2004 Leading Energy and Environmental Brokerage and Consulting Firm Analyzes Global Greenhouse Gas Market Activity for World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit Natsource LLC announced the completion of its fourth annual analysis of the global greenhouse...
- Research articles 2004-06-09
- Capping greenhouse gas emissions: the U.S. Senate plans to consider climate change legislation on greenhouse gas emissions this summer
- The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced that the Senate plans to take up a climate change bill, America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), after the Memorial Day recess. The bill would impose a cap on greenhouse gas emissions and set up a...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Germany agrees on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
- BERLIN AFP ? German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder achieved a compromise agreement on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions after weeks of bitter conflict between the ministries of the economy and environment. Environment Minister Juergen Trittin of the Greens party and Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement of the Social Democrats announced the...
- Research articles 2004-03-29
- Executive order 13432—cooperation among agencies in protecting the environment with respect to greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, nonroad vehicles, and nonroad engines
- May 14, 2007 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to ensure the coordinated and effective exercise of...
- Research articles 2007-05-21
- G8 summit will not produce greenhouse gas targets: Britain
- BERLIN AFP — The British government said that the Group of Eight summit next month would not produce specific targets for reducing greenhouse gases from the highly industrialized countries. Secretary of State for Environment Margaret Beckett said that the United Nations remained the preferred forum to discuss the specifics...
- Research articles 2005-06-15
- Greenhouse gas bill and corporate reporting
- Look for a major fight to break out in the Senate over the issue of corporate reporting to the SEC on greenhouse gas GHG emissions. The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee was expected to clear a bipartisan bill (S. 2191) in December that would go to the floor after...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Gas gets first green light.
- Mar 26, 2003 (Northern Territory News - ABIX via COMTEX) The Northern Territory Government has given environmental approval for extraction of gas from the Greater Sunrise field. An environmental impact assessment was prepared by the Timor Sea field partners, Woodside Petroleum, Shell Australia,...
- Research articles 2003-03-26
- ENVIRONMENT CANADA: ABC's of climate change to harness Canadian drive and prompt action.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 April 1999-ENVIRONMENT CANADA: ABC's of climate change to harness Canadian drive and prompt action C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220499 OTTAWA -- The Energy Council of Canada has a plan to help Canadians make the link between their actions and...
- Research articles 1999-04-26
- EENR committee addresses energy policy, greenhouse gas emissions: proposed changes to policy will be re-examined by full committee at Congress of Cities and Exposition.(Energy, Environment and Natural Resources)
- Energy issues dominated much of the fall meeting of the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources EENR steering committee in Phoenix, resulting in a number of policy initiatives. The committee, chaired by Councilmember Dena Mossar of Palo Alto, Calif., is calling for a slight but...
- Research articles 2006-10-16
- Safeway Seeks Sustainable Future for Environment and Its Stores
- Safeway has a problem, but the supermarket chain is doing what it can to surmount it. The latest part of the solution is construction of the company’s first store designed to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification standards for sustainability developed by the U.S....
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Government of Canada targets largest source of greenhouse gas emissions--transportation
- The Government of Canada is taking strong steps to clean urban air by curbing the growing emissions from vehicles in Canadian cities. David Collenette, Minister of Transport, David Anderson, Minister of the Environment, and, Ralph Goodale, Minister of Natural Resources, announced that the government will invest more than $109 million...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- Winners Of Pollution Prevention Awards Announced-CCME Honours Firms Showing Innovation And Leadership.
- WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, MAY 1, 2001 Six Canadian organizations have been selected as winners of the fourth annual CCME Pollution Prevention Awards. Each year, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment CCME honours organizations showing innovation and leadership in the area of pollution prevention....
- Research articles 2001-05-01
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Down in the Recession: Is 'Green GDP' Up?
- Jeffrey Frankel submits: Alan Krueger, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Affairs, suggested in a speech in October a useful metaphor to distinguish different kinds of economic indicators. Some indicators are like the gauges on the dashboard of the car — industrial production, unemployment, inflation and so on....
- External links 2009-11-06
- Five and Counting: Apple Quits Chamber of Commerce
- Apple has turned in its membership card to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- effective immediately -- over the business lobbying group's opposition to the Environmental Protection's Agency effort to limit greenhouse gases. Apple's departure from the Chamber may not be as surprising as say, three utilities quitting the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Google, UN Map Greenhouse Gases Ahead of Climate Talks
- The folks over at Google and the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat have created a greenhouse gas map that gives all those facts and figures swirling around the climate change debate a little visual context. Here's how the map works. Users can get an overall global view showing changes in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
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