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1. Explained: Radiative forcing
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This is the first of a two-part “Explained” on the scientific concepts underlying the concept of the greenhouse effect and global climate change. When people talk about global warming or the greenhouse ...

2. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
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... said, could come from improvements in energy efficiency, which could both produce a dramatic lowering of greenhouse emissions and oil imports, and at the same time create large numbers of long-term jobs. ...

3. China and India endorse Copenhagen Climate Accord
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China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favored by the United States.  ...

4. EPA defends plan to regulate Greenhouse gas emissions
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The Environmental Protection Agency chief fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for ...

5. China tells US to do more on climate change (AP)
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AP - China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

6. The New Republic: How Good Is Wal-Mart's Green?
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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 ...

7. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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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.  ...

8. In Profile: Alex Slocum
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... class work.” Energy solutions Slocum is also working with students to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing the world: meeting growing energy demand with renewable sources that don’t add greenhouse ...

9. 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. ...

10. 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.  ...

11. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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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.  ...

12. China has "No intention" of capping emissions
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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 ...

13. End to bickering urged to achieve new climate pact (AP)
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AP - Environmental officials urged industrialized and developing countries Friday to stop bickering in climate change negotiations, as a Chinese delegate accused rich nations of reneging on commitments ...

14. 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. ...

15. Ancient hurricanes
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A question central to research on global warming is how warmer temperatures caused by increased greenhouse gases could influence climate. Probing the past for clues about this potential effect, MIT and ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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.  ...

18. Regulation of Greenhouse Gases May Fall to EPA (Time.com)
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Time.com - With the cap-and-trade bill mired in the Senate, regulation of greenhouse gases may fall to the EPA. How exactly would that work? ...

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

20. UN climate talks to resume in April in Germany (AP)
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AP - The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen.

21. A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
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... 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 ...

22. Business groups challenge EPA on greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - Several prominent business groups have joined a growing list of organizations and states challenging the federal government's finding that climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories ...

23. Texas, Virginia challenge EPA greenhouse gas finding (The Christian Science Monitor)
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... erred in finding that greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health and welfare. ...

24. Business groups challenge EPA on greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - Several prominent business groups have joined a growing list of organizations and states challenging the federal government's finding that climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories ...

25. Texas, Virginia challenge EPA greenhouse gas finding (The Christian Science Monitor)
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... erred in finding that greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health and welfare. ...

26. Texas challenging EPA's greenhouse gas finding (AP)
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AP - Texas became the first state to challenge the federal government's finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous to people, claiming Tuesday that the ruling is based on flawed science and would wreck ...

27. 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 ...

28. California's global-warming law Under Attack
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... at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state's unemployment rate drops. ...

29. Biodiesel as an Alternate Fuel
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... 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.  ...

30. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
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... 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 ...