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1. Western Climate Initiative offers cap-and-trade (AP)
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AP - A coalition of seven western states and three Canadian provinces on Tuesday offered its most detailed strategy yet for controlling greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change, saying they hope ...

2. Obama vows to fight on for climate change bill (AFP)
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AFP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to fight on for a climate change bill, despite the collapse of US Senate legislation designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.  ...

3. Nations pledge clean energy amid treaty stalemate (AFP)
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AFP - Nations pledged to work together to improve the efficiency of energy-guzzlers from televisions to cars, showing practical cooperation on climate change despite a deadlock on sealing a treaty.

4. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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The reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by major sources of these pollutants is gaining momentum. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing ...

5. The aerosols conundrum
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Just how much warmer Earth will become as a result of greenhouse-gas emissions — and how much it has warmed since preindustrial times — is much debated. In a 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

6. British report clears climate scientists of exaggeration
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... Copenhagen and helped sour the public's belief in the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for heating up the planet. ...

7. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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The reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by major sources of these pollutants is gaining momentum. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing ...

8. Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
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Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the ...

9. MIT Study: Natural Gas to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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With lower carbon emissions than coal, natural gas has often been called the "bridge to a low-carbon future," a moniker validated by a new analysis from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ...

10. Telepresence Could Save Business $19 Billion by 2020
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... tons in total – the greenhouse gas equivalent of removing more than one million passenger vehicles from the road for one year – and achieve total economy-wide financial benefits of almost $19 billion, ...

11. Wind Integration: Does It Reduce Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
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Many claim that wind generation is beneficial because it reduces pollution emissions and does not emit carbon dioxide.  This isn’t necessarily the case. The following article explains a phenomena called ...

12. POET cellulosic ethanol cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 111 percent over gasoline
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Ethanol produced by Project LIBERTY, POET's first planned commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, will reduce carbon emissions by 111 percent over gasoline, an independent lifecycle analysis shows.

13. Senate Rejects Move To Block Greenhouse Gas Rules
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The Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters. ...

14. NRC Reports: United States Should Act Now to Cut Greenhouse Gases
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... States should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to develop an adaptation plan. ...

15. Clean Up the Trucks
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About a year ago the President and car company CEOs, announced the first Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars and light trucks that took into account greenhouse gas emissions as a factor. ...

16. ‘Efficiency Forward'
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... and the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cooper said. Both of those buildings are slated to open within the next year. In addition to MIT Efficiency Forward, the Institute is seeking to reduce greenhouse ...

17. President Obama Orders Fuel Efficiency Standards for Trucks
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President Barack Obama has directed the U.S. Environmental Agency and U.S. Department of Transportation to create the first national policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas emissions ...

18. Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'
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...  An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must be replaced by a drive towards low-cost green energy, says a group of academics and lobbyists ...

19. Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'
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...  An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must be replaced by a drive towards low-cost green energy, says a group of academics and lobbyists ...

20. Obama expands bid to cut vehicle emissions (AFP)
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AFP - US President Barack Obama on Friday mandated a new national policy on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and increasing fuel efficiency for pollution-spewing trucks.  ...

21. EPA Announces Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
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U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy held a press conference today to discuss the EPA's final rule to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the largest stationary sources, while shielding ...

22. Cementing success
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... structure of cement. The production of cement accounts for more than 10 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the team members say, and the new nano-engineered type of cement they developed ...

23. EPA Announces Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
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U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy held a press conference today to discuss the EPA's final rule to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the largest stationary sources, while shielding ...

24. EPA moves to regulate industrial greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global

25. The new, improved Senate climate bill
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A U.S. Senate compromise bill aimed at battling global warming would cut emissions of greenhouse gases 17 percent by 2020, according to a summary given to senators and obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.  ...

26. DOE Awards $13 million for the Industrial Energy Efficiency Grand Challenge
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... that can significantly reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. ...

27. Myths of Cap-and-Trade and Clean Energy Policies
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... that cap-and-trade and other “clean energy” policies will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while not significantly increasing consumer prices. These Senators and the President [...] ...

28. New project aims for fusion ignition
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...  Although seen as a possible significant contributor to the world’s energy needs because it would be free of greenhouse-gas emissions, practical fusion power remains at least two decades away, most scientists ...

29. Climate Bill To Proceed Despite Loss Of Key Backer
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who had backed the measure for months, says the legislation is unlikely to pass in the current environment. The bill aims to cut emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases ...

30. North America to Reduce and Replace hydrofluorocarbons, Potent Greenhouse Gases
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... which demonstrates environmental benefits equal to removing greenhouse gas emissions from 59 million passenger cars each year through 2020, and 420 million cars each year through 2050. Reducing HFCs would ...