EU presses US Congress on climate change, says should cut carbon emissionsBRUSSELS — The European Union urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to ensure the United States makes deep cuts in carbon emissions as part of negotiations to reach a new global climate change accord. US farm groups, farmers split over whether climate bill would help or hurt agricultureOMAHA, Neb. — Climate change legislation before Congress could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financial burden. EU to begin phasing out traditional lightbulbs to help curb climate changeBRUSSELS — The EU will start making the transition from power-draining lightbulbs to more energy efficient ones Tuesday, the European Commission said. EU to begin phase out of traditional light bulbs to help curb climate changeBRUSSELS — An EU-wide transition of power-draining light bulbs to more energy efficient ones will start Tuesday, the European Commission said. UN urges nations to share data on hurricanes, droughts, floods to better fight global warmingGENEVA — The world needs more innovative projects — like putting weather stations on cellular phone towers across Africa — to help it better predict the increased hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts and floods that climate change will bring, Kofi Annan said Monday. On continent’s boggy Arctic fringe, scientists search for signs of future climate calamityMACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, Northwest Territories — Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence — and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world. UN conference to help countries adapt to global warming, share climate informationGENEVA — As nations negotiate tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gases, the United Nations is holding a separate conference on coping with more floods, droughts and other effects of climate change already assured. UN chief: World must ’seal the deal’ on climate change before key global summit in CopenhagenVIENNA — The U.N. chief is urging the world to “seal the deal” on climate change ahead of a major conference on global warming in December. UN chief: World must ’seize the day’ on climate change before key global summit in CopenhagenVIENNA — The U.N. chief is urging the world to “seize the day” on climate change ahead of a major conference on global warming set for December in Copenhagen. Aid agency: Climate change causing ‘deeply worrying’ food shortages for millions in NepalKATMANDU, Nepal — Millions of people in Nepal face severe food shortages because global climate change has disrupted weather patterns and slashed crop yields in the Himalayan nation, an international aid agency warned Friday. Workers remove leaking pipe at oldest US nuclear plant, say no danger to publicLACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Workers have safely removed a leaking pipe at the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant, the Oyster Creek Generating Station in New Jersey. 300 workers evacuated after explosions at Detroit chemical plant
After national park tour, Udall, McCain agree global warming a problem but stay quiet on fixesESTES PARK, Colo. — Global warming is threatening America’s national parks. But there is no consensus about how to prevent the harm. Billions of beetles, wildfire spread imperil the northern forests of a warmer worldHAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory — A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer. Plugging leaking oil well off Australia could take weeks, operator saysPERTH, Australia — Plugging a leak at an offshore drilling rig that has caused an oil slick off Australia will take weeks, the operator said Sunday, though officials said there was little threat of environmental damage. Environmental groups laud EPA setting limits for nutrient runoff polluting Florida watersCLEARWATER, Fla. — Environmental groups on Friday lauded long-awaited action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set legal limits for farm and urban runoff polluting Florida’s waterways, limits that could serve as a model for other states. Combating climate change creates new kind of crime: Carbon crooks can cash in on credit tradeAMSTERDAM — Customs agents this week arrested nine people in the London area suspected of a multimillion dollar fraud in trading carbon permits, bringing attention to a rich new field for crime sprung from the fight against climate change. Swimming in warm waters of … Maine? Summer seas grow steamy as oceans smash heat recordsWASHINGTON — Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday — in Maine. Botched snow response, expensive tunnel leave Seattle mayor’s re-election prospects grimSEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has been hailed as a visionary and a leader on environmental issues, helping persuade nearly 1,000 mayors around the country to abide by the standards of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Agency warns current climate proposals won’t work, more ambitious action neededBRUSSELS — Reversing global warming will cost up to $185 billion (€130 billion) a year before 2020 and require more action by world governments than currently pledged, an international environmental analysis group said Thursday. Untreated food-processing wastewater, disposed of by spraying on fields, may taint wellsCLYDE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — When empty-nesters Kari and Ron Craton moved a few years ago to a more rural area of southwestern Michigan, they were seeking a more rustic life. UN talks to forge new climate-change pact face myriad arguments, may miss December deadlineBONN, Germany — Poor countries stepped up demands Friday on the industrial world to keep the Earth from catastrophically overheating, amid warnings that negotiations are moving too slowly to meet a December deadline for a sweeping accord on global warming. Ag Secretary Vilsack outlines ‘vision’ for US forests to create jobs, block climate changeSEATTLE — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday outlined a vision for managing the nation’s forests that placed a high priority on restoration to protect water resources and combat climate change. India seeks to bar US trade sanctions against countries that don’t accept climate policyBONN, Germany — India wants the new global climate change agreement to ban trade barriers targeting nations that refuse to accept limits on their carbon emissions, the chief Indian climate negotiator said Friday. Operator of ship that caused San Francisco Bay oil spill pleads guilty to criminal chargesSAN FRANCISCO — The Hong Kong-based company that operates the cargo ship that caused a 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges. Korea, New Zealand pledge emissions cuts as climate talks reconvene; activists rap low goalsAMSTERDAM —Wealthy countries are not going far enough to control greenhouse gas emissions, activists said Monday as delegates from 180 nations resumed talks on a global climate change pact. New Zealand pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 percent by 2020WELLINGTON, New Zealand —New Zealand announced on Monday that it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the country’s climate change minister said. Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: Ban Ki-moon
Look at what Congress has done so far this yearSome of the Democratic-led 111th Congress’ accomplishments in the six months since Democratic President Barack Obama took office: Judge to return from appellate court to hear Dole case in LALOS ANGELES — The judge who ruled there was massive fraud in a lawsuit against Dole Foods will return from her new appellate court assignment to preside over further proceedings in the contentious litigation. |
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DETROIT — Explosions and a fire at a chemical factory Monday forced firefighters to evacuate employees and police to caution nearby residents to stay inside their homes.
SEOUL, South Korea —U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that climate change is the greatest challenge facing a world beset by crises and called on governments to reach a deal on the environment at a meeting in Denmark later this year.
