WASHINGTON -- James Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told an Energy Policy TV Newsmaker hosted by the United States Energy Association and co-sponsored by BP America and PricewaterhouseCoopers that the recent U.N. climate change negotiation in Bali accomplished the U.S. objectives for the meeting and...
IN A STUDY commissioned by the White House, the National Academy of Sciences NAS said last week that global warming "is real and particularly strong within the past 20 years." It added that a major cause is emissions of carbon dioxide f IN A...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Human activities likely are contributing to global warming, according to a recent Bush administration report sent to Congress. Environmentalists and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., pointing to the report, called o ...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barbara Boxer released internal Environmental Protection Agency documents Tuesday that add to her suspicion that the White House directed the agency's rejection of California's tough fuel-standards waiver. The California Democrat is chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which is investigating the...
WASHINGTON -- Brushing aside a veto threat from the White House, the House passed a package of energy measures on Thursday that includes a 40 percent increase in fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the United States. The bill's supporters say it will...
A congressional committee is charging that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act when it approved an expansion of a coal-fired power plant in Uintah County without imposing controls for carbon-dioxide emissions. A letter Wednesday from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said...
WASHINGTON -- European Union and U.S. leaders are hailing what they say is a major step toward bridging their sharp differences on global warming. Academics and critics of President Bush's policies, however, question whether he really gave any ground. At issue is a little-noticed sentence deep in...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday, in what amounts to a rebuke of the Bush administration, that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide from automobile emissions and that it has shirked its duty in not doing so. In a 5-4 decision,...
WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming. In a 5-4 decision, the court said the Clean Air Act gives the...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must consider greenhouse gases as pollutants, in a blow to the White House. "Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's capacious definition of 'air pollutant' we hold that EPA has the...
Delivering cleaner air through innovation. President George W. Bush learns about hydraulic hybrid technology from Robert Hall, Fleet Environmental Manager for UPS. UPS's hydraulic hybrid delivery vehicle HHV is the first of its kind and is part of the company's 1,500-vehicle alternative fuel fleet - the largest private alternative fuel...
If the Bush administration continues to oppose mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases, then Congress and the American people must force the issue ("Scientists: White House pressured us to downplay global warming," News, Wednesday). Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman is already distancing the administration from a recent report by top...
Journalists at the recent SEJ convention in Vermont got an earful from NASA scientist James E. Hansen about government attempts to quash or alter scientific information. A longtime director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen became a whistleblower against the Bush administration when it tried to...
President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say. After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources. ...
Increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases have contributed to the gradual rise in global temperatures over the last 50 years. Two options for reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere are to increase the amount of land planted with permanent grassland or forest vegetation and...
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Bush administration must regulate carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming. The court will address whether the administration's decision to rely on voluntary measures to combat climate change is legal under federal clean air laws. There was no immediate comment...
BLUE REVOLUTION Fashionable term for the need to provide water to those who lack it, particularly in the developing world. The United Nations has estimated that 2.7 billion people will face a severe shortage of drinkable water by 2025, which may lead to... ...
-Calo Institute Official Disagrees U.S. ethanol producers continue to need federal tax incentives to help "level the playing field," since the oil industry has been receiving incentives since WWII, according to C. Boyden Gray, former White House counsel to President George Bush and member of the biofuel-friendly Energy Future Coalition....
In 2000, President Bush promised that If elected he would work to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. Yet upon taking office, he withdrew American support from the Kyoto Treaty to regulate carbon dioxide, and he dismissed a report from his own Environmental Protection Agency pointing out...
A new report delivered to Congress Aug. 25 by the Bush administration indicated that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases were the only likely explanation for global wanning over the past three decades, the New York Times reported. In delivering the report, an administration ofBcial said it reflected...
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