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Headline Climate Change to be worse than predicted (Feb 2009)

Headline Barrack Obama and Climate Change (2009)

Headline Permafrost Thawing In Northern Sweden

Headline Australia Tackles Climate Change.

Headline Londoner's encouraged to starve their bins.... with a mobile phone game

Headline UK Environment Agency sets standards for Recycling French Naval Ship

Headline UK branded Climate Criminal over Coal Plans

Headline Gordon Brown Slated for Carbon Footprint

Headline Canada dumps renewables for Clean Coal

Obama starts new Environmental Campaign

obama on climate change The inaugration of a new president brings with it a new vision for the future of America. Even in the current econonic downturn, President Barrack Obama is looking forward and driving home a new era in tracking Climate Change and Envirnmental Issues. In effect, the Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will:

Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.
Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

China Overtakes U.S. in Global CO2 Emissions

When Hillary Clinton swept through Asia last week, it was the first time in 50 years a new U.S. secretary of state kicked off his or her tenure by visiting that continent. It marked a new American focus especially on China, the culmination and centerpiece of her trip. Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi pledged to improve and expand the countries' relationship, and both repeatedly named climate change as a main reason why.

For much of this decade, China and the United States have been at odds over their carbon dioxide emissions. International finger-pointing about CO2 is common, especially now that world leaders face cooling economies on top of warming temperatures. But even before this recession, some of the planet's most industrious nations struggled to coordinate cutbacks, allowing emissions to continue rising.

 earth's climate is changing

 

Kentucky Utilities to pay $1.4 million fine: EPA

Tue Feb 3, 2009: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kentucky Utilities Company has agreed to pay a fine of $1.4 million and spend about $135 million on new pollution controls for violations of the Clean Air Act at one of its power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

Under the agreement, Kentucky Utilities, a unit of E.ON US, will cut emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides at its E. W. Brown Generating Station in Mercer County, Kentucky, by more than 31,000 tons per year.

The company will also install controls to reduce particulate matter emissions by approximately 1,000 tons per year.

 
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