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US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
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US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
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A report carried out by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration points to the alarming fact
that half of all US
coral reefs are in poor health and that responsibility belongs to human beings.
Today will take place the 11th
International Coral Reef Symposium, which will be hosted at The Broward...
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 A grand jury has decided to dismiss
criminal charges against Alain Robert, a practiced French stuntman known for
climbing tall buildings, one of two men who scaled the 52-story New York Times
building last week, a spokesman for the Manhattan
district attorney’s office said.
Alain Robert, the French “Spiderman,” climbed
a New...
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 The Great Lakes
are under the threat of global warming and Congress needs to enact a
comprehensive plan to restore the health of the lakes.
Warming over the next century could lower
lakes and expose toxic sediment that has been buried and cause heavy rains that
could lead to more sewer overflows, threatening water quality, a new...
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 The Environmental Protection Agency was accused of
“foot-dragging” to avoid regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
More that 18 states sued the Bush administration for taking no action
concerning the issue of global warming.
In a petition signed Wednesday several states’ officials had
required the EPA...
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 Republican presidential candidate John McCain called yesterday
for a more cooperative foreign policy, claiming that the U.S. must be a
“good and reliable” friend and must stop excluding its allies, showing “decent
respect to the opinions of mankind.” His statement is drawing a sharp contrast
to the past years under President’s George...
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 Global warming threatens the ribbon seal. Other special species
need protection and federal scientists have already taken into consideration
listing the ribbon seal under the Endangered Species Act. Chinese River
Dolphin, Elephant, Giant pangolin, Golden Marmoset, Gorilla, Steller Sea Lion, Orangutan
and Tiger are mammals protected...
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 A major change may be under way as numerous prominent leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention criticized on Monday the denomination’s timid position regarding the human responsibility for global warming.At least 46 important members of the denomination, including three of its last four presidents, said that Baptists have the moral...
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 California sued the administration of President George W Bush Wednesday
over the refusal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow
the state to impose strict limits on vehicle emissions that cause
global warming.
The EPA "has done nothing at the national level to curb greenhouse
gases, and now it has wrongfully...
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 An energy bill that raises the fuel efficiency of vehicles on US roads
for the first time in 32 years passed the Senate on Thursday, after
backers bowed to White House pressure and dropped higher taxes on oil
and gas companies.
Also dropped were provisions that would force power companies to
buy some of their electricity from...
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 The United States on Monday rejected a proposal to include 25- to
40-per cent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 in a UN
draft agreement at a climate change conference.
To agree to greenhouse gas reductions would require "a lot of
analysis," said Harlan Watson, head of the US delegation at the Bali
talks,...
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 California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger intensified his battle with
the Bush administration over environmental issues Thursday, announcing
that his state was suing the government to gain the right to enact its
own laws limiting auto emissions.
The maverick Republican politician and former movie star accused
the federal...
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 Global climate is a more and more pressing matter as
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon clearly stated at a climate change summit on Monday.
150 representatives and 80 heads of state gathered at the
meeting to find a way to solve the global worming problem were Ki-Moon urged
them to act quickly to save future generations from the...
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 According to President George W Bush, the United States is prepared to embrace and apply new environmental programs in order to set an example for other nations.Bush held a speech ahead of the Group of Eight summit due to begin next week in Germany and pledged to reduce pollution in the US and expects other industrialized countries to...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened by extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Monday.
The congress, which brought together some 8,000 United Nations officials, experts and business representatives from 160 countries in the Spanish city of Barcelona, made public an alarming...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened by extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Monday.
The congress, which brought together some 8,000 United Nations officials, experts and business representatives from 160 countries in the Spanish city of Barcelona, made public an alarming...
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President Dmitry Medvedev called Wednesday for Russia to secure its Arctic borders because the region may hold more than a quarter of the world's offshore oil and gas reserves.
"Our first and fundamental task is to turn the Arctic into a resource base for Russia in the 21st century," Medvedev said at a meeting of National...
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An electricity plant that burns lignite coal but does not pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide was billed Tuesday in Germany as the future of coal power.
The utility Vattenfall built the pilot plant on the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Estate at Spremberg near Germany's Polish border. It burns lignite dust mixed with pure oxygen,...
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Japanese automakers produce the most environmentally friendly cars, a study released in Germany Wednesday concluded.
Drawn up by the Traffic Club Germany (VCD), the study said that Japanese carmakers were ahead of their international rivals at a time when concerns are growing about high fuel costs and global warming.
"When it...
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Two Russian submersibles plumbed the depths of
Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia on Tuesday, diving a record 1,680 metres
(5,512 feet) in one of the world's largest lakes. 'It is a
world record for deep-water submersion in fresh water,' an organizer
told news agencies Itar-Tass on the barge fielding expedition that was
to last...
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 Nuremberg city and zoo
officials on Tuesday introduced Germany’s
latest polar bear cub, Flocke, to an anxious public, the Associated Press
reports. The fluffy white polar bear, whose name means “snowflake” managed to
capture people’s hearts.
“Not only Nuremberg, but the
whole world has been in Flocke fever,”...
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 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to amaze with his surprise meetings, Tuesday having a close encounter with California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, also known as “the Governator” as a parallel between his current function and The Terminator movie series.The two charismatic political figures held a joint press...
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 After attempts to disrupt the Group of Eight summit or draw attention by mass protests on land and on water, the anti-globalization activists tried by air on Friday.Two protesters embarked on a hot-air balloon and took of from Rostock aiming to fly over the Heiligendamm luxurious resort, but helicopters belonging to German police...
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 Climate change was the top issue at this week’s summit in Heiligendamm and the Group of Eight leaders did their best to contradict many skeptics that were lisping a major failure regarding a new climate policy.A major accomplishment was the reducing with 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a benchmark that all participating...
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 Looks like Tony Blair wants to please everybody until he steps
down in late June, as his last statement showed an obvious support for Angela
Merkel’s plans to impose the cutting of greenhouse gas emission through the
United Nations.
“It is the issue on
which we have to come now to a global agreement so that when Kyoto expires we...
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 Bush doesn’t seem to convince anyone of his ambitious plans to
cut greenhouse gas emissions, the last official to doubt his goof will being Jose
Manuel Barroso, European Union President who said the US shouldn’t limit to a
simple plan.
Barroso told a German newspaper that the United
States need to set higher goals, in order...
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Hamburg is the
meeting point for most of the foreign ministers of Asian countries which hold
debates with European Union representatives regarding climate change and other
stressing world issues.
The main problem on the agenda is climate change caused by the
increasing level of carbon-dioxide emissions. Despite EU attempt to...
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 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair sustained that the United Kingdom will maintain the alliance with the United States against terrorism and will continue its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan."We will remain a staunch and steadfast ally in the fight against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere," Blair...
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 British Prime Minister Tony Blair started his farewell tour and took a first trip to France. There he met with outgoing French President Jacques Chirac, but before that he expressed his support for Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to review the current EU constitution and replace it with a more simplified one.This proposal comes after the French...
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New Zealand is standing firm with a number of European countries in demanding strict conditions on a proposed agreement for the United States to supply India with nuclear fuel and technology for civilian use, Prime Minister Helen Clark indicated Monday.
New Zealand, whose adoption of a legally-binding anti-nuclear policy two decades...
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The near-eradication of the blue whale in the waters of the Antarctic during the early 20th century led to a paradoxical fall-off in krill, the small shrimp-like creatures on which they feed, a German report said Wednesday.
Marine biologist Victor Smetacek told the German weekly Die Zeit that blue whales had once consumed 180 million...
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 The heads of developed and developing countries, including President Bush, and international officials, met in Toyako, Japan do debate the problem of climate change, among other matters.In the last G-8 summit of George Bush's presidency he declared "significant progress" had been made regarding combating global warming. The...
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Greenland will host this week a
meeting where 5 powerful nations will discuss the resources offered by the Arctic Ocean and how these resources are to be split up
between them.
The countries to take part at
this conference are Canada, Norway, Denmark,
Russia and the United States.
The generating factor that gave
birth to...
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The need for a global warming
pact has reunited a Group of Eight environment ministers on Monday in Japan.
U.N. European countries and other
developing nations made pressures on the eight ministers to discuss and find a
solution for this major issue that is affecting the whole world. They even
suggested that a cut of the...
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 Representatives from 163 countries met with the secretary
general of the United Nations to find solutions for the global problem of
climate change that affects all of us. They will also try to find a replacement
for the Kyoto
climate change pact because it only binds 37 rich countries to cut emissions of
greenhouse gases.
Poor...
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 After the symbolic “Earth Hour” on Saturday evening, March 29, representatives from 163
countries met with the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, to
find solutions to the global problem of climate change.
The talks are scheduled to conclude at the end of 2009.
“The world is waiting for a...
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 Switching off lights for one hour on Saturday night is meant
to draw everybody's attention on the threat of climate change.
From Australian's Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge to
Melbourne's Flinders Street Station and Silicon Valley companies, the Golden
Gate Bridge, City Hall, the Hyatt Regency and Rincon Center, to the...
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 Coming up this month is the 20th anniversary of the Montreal save the atmosphere’s
ozone layer treaty. The anniversary will be honored by 191 nations involved in
the pact.
This does not only mark the a break through in removing the use of ozone
depleting chemicals like those found in coolants, but it also provides a model
for...
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China is failing to attract European investment as effectively as competing economies such as Russia and India and must open its markets if it wants to reverse the trend, the European Union's top trade official said Friday.
"European companies have invested more in both Russia and India since 2003. China is winning a decreasing...
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The New Zealand Parliament on Thursday passed a law designed to combat global warming that was expected to raise the cost of just about everything and nobody knows by how much.
The law establishing a trading scheme that puts a price on emissions of greenhouse gases is bitterly opposed by most of New Zealand's business sectors,...
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After years of impressive growth, Asia's aviation industry is flying in to tempestuous times in 2008, as sky-rocketing oil prices and declining demand for travel and cargo take their toll.
Although fuel prices have been rising for the past two years, a robust global economy allowed airlines to pass on the added cost in terms of...
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Group of Eight (G8) leaders were cornered into
doing more for Africa on Monday as a row over the benefits of nuclear
energy brewed on the opening day of their summit.
The plight of millions of destitute Africans dominated the agenda in
Toyako, Japan, as the heads of government and state of the world's
richest countries came...
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Australia laid out plans Friday for a national
scheme for carbon-emissions trading it hopes will help slow climate
change without crashing the national economy or handing a competitive
advantage to other countries. The scheme is outlined in a
report delivered to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by top economist Ross
Garnaut. It would...
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 Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said in his opening speech at the
Tokyo International Conference on African Development, which attracted more
than 40 African leaders, that by 2012 Japan
would double its aid to Africa, increasing it
year by year to reach the target. He said this year’s Group of Eight should
focus on the efforts...
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 Typhoon Neoguri, a two category storm on a scale up to five,
is expected to drop 40 mm (one and a half inches) to 90 mm of rain on Hainan
and Guangdong
and to bring winds of 176 kilometers (110 miles) per hour, the US Navy Joint
Typhoon Warning Center said.
Neoguri’s eyes, which is the second storm of the northwest
Pacific...
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 Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pledged on Friday to make Japan a
"low-carbon society" and set up a financial system to help developing
nations tackle environmental problems.
With a mind to host the Group of Eight summit meeting in July,
Fukuda told lawmakers on the first day of the regular Diet
session that he...
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 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday offered to expand ties
with China in nuclear energy, military and other fields as part of
India's pursuit of "mutually beneficial cooperation with all major
countries."
"It is natural that major powers, bound together by economic
interdependence, will seek to cooperate...
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 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that the "time to act
is now" to set an agenda for a more secure climate future as
environment ministers from around the world gathered in Bali to reach a
mandate for negotiations on a new global treaty to protect the climate.
The ministers' aim at the UN climate conference...
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 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed
impatience with Myanmar's junta for its slow progress in
democratization since its latest crackdown on its own people last
September.
"The international community is impatient, in fact our patience is
running out," Ban said after meeting with Thai Prime...
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 China’s
and the USA’s leaders met
this week in Sidney
to discuss global security matters as well as climate changes.
Among the security issues in question were nuclear programs
in North Korea and Iran
and violence in Dafur.
Both presidents found the conversation useful and were happy
of the outcome.
"He's an easy man...
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The latest round of United Nations climate talks got underway in Ghanian capital Accra Thursday, with over a thousand delegates gathering for a week to iron out the technical details of a new climate change treaty.
Talks in Bangkok in April set up a work programme for a long-term international agreement to be concluded in Copenhagen...
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 According to researchers at the University of Texas,
more Americans are predisposed to suffer from kidney stones in the coming
years, as a result of global warming.
Kidney stones, which usually arise from dissolved minerals
in the urine, can be awfully painful and are regularly attributable to
dehydration, either by not drinking...
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According to a new study led by NYU Langone Medical Center
researchers and involving more than 7,000 subjects, a bacteria that is known to
live in the human stomach may protect children from developing asthma.
Although bacterium helicobacter pylori, which has co-existed
with humans for at least 50,000 years, may also lead to...
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 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is one of the world's
largest private agencies that deals with philanthropies. It announced on
Wednesday that it would spend $600 million for inovative medical research in various fields.
The group stated that their investment would focus on high-risk
areas of research, where there is little chance...
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 On Tuesday (Earth Day), at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Pasadena, California, Dell announced "the company's smallest and most environmentally-responsible consumer desktop PC."This comes after the announcement made by the company on World Environment Day last year, when the idea of a partnership between Dell and...
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 Satellite images show that a large part of the Antarctica's
massive Wilkins Ice Shelf, a plate of permanently floating ice, situated on the
southwest Antarctic Peninsula, has begun disintegrating
under the effects of global warming.
The dimension of the shelf was about 160 square miles (415
square kilometers) in...
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 The world is continually
changing, Antarctica’s ice is melting and polar
bears and not only are in great danger. The global warming phenomenon is no longer
fiction, but people seem still too stubborn to understand that they are the
only ones who can save Earth! If we love our children, we must learn together
how we can eliminate the...
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 To eat or not to eat? That is the question
that lately kept the attention of the experts from the London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Has anybody ever wondered which the
consequences of eating too much are? Let’s consider the people who need daily five
times the normal quantity of calories. Because it seems that...
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 Panic overwhelmed the peaceful city of Castiglione di Cervia
with about 2000 inhabitants as one after another people started to fall ill
with weeks of high fever, exhaustion and excruciating bone pain, just as most
of Italy was enjoying Ferragosto, its most important summer holiday.
By midmonth, more than 100 people had come down...
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 Tropical Storm Olga left at least 22 people dead in the Dominican
Republic and one dead in Haiti after drenching the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola and moving west toward Cuba.
Dominican authorities said Thursday that 34,480 people had to be evacuated and 7,594 homes suffered damage.
The toll could rise. Dominican Republic...
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 As a reaction of the US-commissioned study of power stations all around the world that ranked Australia as the world's worst carbon-dioxide emitter on a per capita basis, Greenpeace demonstrators have chained themselves to a conveyor belt feeding coal into the Munmorah power station north of Sydney, on Thursday.Four of them were...
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 On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard launched a commendable initiative with the objective of getting customers to reduce the negative impact printing has on the environment. It its attempt to make people go green, the company unveiled a new printer model, made almost entirely out of recycled plastic, a product labeling system that can inform...
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 On Wednesday, Dell gave itself a two-year deadline to reduce by up to 25% its products’ energy consumption. This is not Dell’s first environment-oriented effort as, according to company officials, its OptiPlex desktops have recorded a 50% improvement in energy efficiency since 2005 and the Latitude notebooks’ power consumption went down...
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 On Thursday, a critique co-signed by Roger Pielke Jr., a science-policy specialist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, caused quite a stir. The study attempted to show that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was way off with its assessment of the technology challenge the world is facing.The study referes to the...
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 Pacific Gas & Electric is to announce today the signing
of the largest series of solar-power contracts in history. The plan includes
the construction of five plants within the next decade.
Once the plants become fully operational, a significant
percentage of PG&E customers will receive solar-generated power....
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 The popular British science
fiction author and inventor Sir Arthur C. Clarke was buried on Saturday at a
private funeral in Sri Lanka.
The famous author died on Tuesday of respiratory problems and heart failure. He was 90 years old
and was living at his home in Sri Lanka.
Clarke’s death saddened millions
of fans from all around...
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 Since people have become more aware of their responsibility
to protect the planet against global warming, they rushed to buy fluorescent
light bulbs.
A fluorescent light bulb apparently uses 25 percent less
energy than an incandescent one and also lasts years longer that the latter.
But now its disadvantage has also been...
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 The rejection of states’ efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions by the Bush administration caused an angry reaction from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he vowed on Thursday to sue the administration.On Wednesday, the government blocked the intentions of 17 states, including California, to limit emissions from...
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 For Honda Motor Co. modernity
will not be represented by electric hybrid cars in any case! The popular
company has recently publicly announced that it will keep on the traditional
track with its business. Honda Motor has said it will focus on improving the
traditional, conventional gasoline-electric hybrid technology for its...
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 Eleven major international corporations, including Dell computers, L’Oreal or PepsiCo, reaffirmed their commitment for the fight against global warming on Sunday, as they announced their plan to start monitoring the amount of carbon emissions that their suppliers produce.The initiative continues the path that Wal- Mart began last...
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 California lost a global warming lawsuit against six automakers, as the U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco issued a 24-page ruling which says federal courts are not the place to resolve the complex issues surrounding global warming. The case "presents a non-justiciable political question," Judge Jenkins said....
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 Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York State has subpoenaed five large energy companies in an investigation into whether they disclosed to investors enough information about the financial risks of using coal to produce electricity. The official letters, written using powers given by the Martin Act, ask for a response by Oct. 9,...
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 US federal judge William K. Sessions III upheld Vermont's right to adopt tougher than federal rules on CO2 gases to help fight global warming, contrary to the claims of the auto industry, which alleges federal laws took precedence over state rules."History suggests," he said in his decision, "that the ingenuity of the...
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 The New Zealand government announced in Monday that it aims to buy back the nation’s rail services from Toll Holdings Ltd. for NZ 665 million dollars (520 million dollars), also allowing upgrades to go ahead.The agreement regarding the purchase came after the government and the Australian Toll were unable to agree on a deal for Toll’s...
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 The Boeing Company announced on Tuesday that the Jakarta-based Lion Air made an order of 56 Next-Generation 737-900ER aircrafts, valued at over 4.4 billion dollars at the current price list.The order was announced during the Singapore Air Show, by Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President, Sales, Dinesh Ke | | | |
