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1. The New Republic: How Good Is Wal-Mart's Green?
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

It's a fairly big deal that Wal-Mart announced plans to reduce 20 million tons of greenhouse-gas emissions from its suppliers by 2015. But Bradford Plumer wonders if this could really offset the company's ...

2. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Two senior Democrats in the U.S. House filed a resolution to block the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gases on its own if a climate change bill fails to pass Congress soon.  ...

3. ArcelorMittal loses court challenge on emissions (AP)
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AP - The world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal SA on Tuesday lost a legal challenge that sought to exempt it from the European Union's greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system. ...

4. Indonesian-Australian carbon project in Sumatra (AFP)
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AFP - Indonesia and Australia announced on Tuesday a multi-million dollar initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.  ...

5. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Two senior Democrats in the U.S. House filed a resolution to block the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gases on its own if a climate change bill fails to pass Congress soon.  ...

6. China has "No intention" of capping emissions
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

China has no intention of capping its greenhouse gas emissions even as authorities are committed to realizing the nation's target to reduce carbon intensity through new policies and measures, the country's ...

7. Wal-Mart to push suppliers to cut emissions (AP)
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AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants its suppliers to reduce 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2015. ...

8. Report: Copenhagen Accord Pledges Fall Short of Climate Goals
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If the world is going to avoid catastrophic levels of climate change, world leaders will need to commit to more aggressive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than currently pledged under the Copenhagen ...

9. UN warns greenhouse gas cuts 'not enough' to curb warming (AFP)
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AFP - Countries will have to make far greater cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius or less, the UN has warned.  ...

10. Senate battles EPA in greenhouse gas showdown (The Christian Science Monitor)
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... its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. ...

11. A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... for the needs of advanced fuel cells — devices that can convert fuel to electricity without combustion, thereby avoiding the emission of any pollutants or greenhouse gases. This material has now undergone ...

12. Obama to announce loan help for nuclear power (Reuters)
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Reuters - The Obama administration, advancing nuclear power use to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, will announce on Tuesday an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to help Southern Co build two reactors, a government ...

13. California's global-warming law Under Attack
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state's unemployment rate drops. ...

14. Biodiesel as an Alternate Fuel
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... biofuels is only part of the equation when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and our reliance on petroleum carbon based fuels. Vehicles must be ready and sometimes converted to this usage.  ...

15. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... two key deficiencies of Kyoto: It has expanded the agreement to include, so far, nations responsible for more than 80 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, and it extended the timeframe covered by the ...

16. Cap and Trade? Maybe not now...
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...  A cap-and-trade system would set limits on greenhouse gas emissions and allow companies to trade permits to pollute. The system, a version of which was approved by the House of Representatives, ...

17. GOP lawmakers seek to suspend Calif. climate law (AP)
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AP - Republican lawmakers in California are circulating a ballot initiative backed by business interests that would suspend California's landmark law to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a signature policy ...

18. Cap and Trade? Maybe not now...
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

...  A cap-and-trade system would set limits on greenhouse gas emissions and allow companies to trade permits to pollute. The system, a version of which was approved by the House of Representatives, ...

19. Green Groups Oppose Obama On Nuclear Power
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President Obama's proposed 2011 budget would triple the money available to companies who build nuclear power facilities. Obama supports nuclear energy as a way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. ...

20. President Obama: Federal Government to Cut GHG Emissions 28% by 2020
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

A 2009 Executive Order that requires federal agencies to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will result in a 28% overall reduction by 2020. The figure is the aggregate of targets set by 35 federal ...

21. Under the Copenhagen Accord, 55 Countries Agree to Cut GHG Emissions
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Countries representing 78% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from energy use have submitted their national pledges to the United Nations. The pledges mark the first follow-up to the Copenhagen ...

22. California approves $350 million in rebates for solar water heating installations
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... dollar rebate program to encourage state residents and businesses to install solar water heating to save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Combined with the current 30% Federal Tax Credit, that ...

23. 5 Unique Ways to Go Green if You're Living in a Dorm (U.S. News & World Report)
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... ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many with energy-efficient facilities and construction projects. A wind turbine at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, for example, provides 33 percent of campus ...

24. US government to cut greenhouse emissions by 28 percent (AFP)
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AFP - The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama would order the US federal government to reduce its greenhouse gas pollution by 28 percent by 2020.  ...

25. The Future Of Coal Power Will Require Hard Choices
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... to weigh the costs and benefits of continuing to use a technology that produces the largest amount of greenhouse gases. ...

26. Peering inside an artificial sun
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... greenhouse gas emissions. But the practical harnessing of this powerhouse is thought to remain decades away. Achieving ignition would represent an important and long-sought step in that direction. One ...

27. Power from down under
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Grants recently awarded to MIT researchers by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) could help to pave the way for a method of generating electricity that produces no greenhouse gas emissions, and that could ...

28. EU maintains pledge for deeper emissions cuts, if others follow (AFP)
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AFP - EU nations decided Wednesday to maintain their pledge to make 30 percent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if other industrialised nations do the same, diplomats said.  ...

29. Australia to put forward unchanged carbon cuts to UN (AFP)
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AFP - Australia on Wednesday said it would cut greenhouse gas emissions by between five and 25 percent of 2000 levels by 2020, depending on the commitments of other nations.  ...

30. Groups fight effort to regulate emissions in NM (AP)
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AP - New Mexico's largest utility, three state lawmakers and other industry groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop New Mexico regulators from adopting a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. ...