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- E.P.A. Is Petitioned to Limit Ship Emissions
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The California attorney general and a coalition of environmental groups have called for federal regulation to curb heat-trapping emissions from the worldwide fleet of about [...]
- World moves into the ecological red
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The world moved into “ecological overdraft” on Saturday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any [...]
- Receding ice displaces Alaska walrus
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Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska’s northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.
Alaska’s [...] - Stanford to Give Away 7,000 CFLs to Students and Staff
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This semester Stanford students will be part of the largest energy conservation program of its kind at an American university. Student Housing, the Office of [...]
- U.K. judge rules in favor of ‘Truth’
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London — Former U.S. vice president Al Gore’s climate change doc “An Inconvenient Truth” can be screened in U.K. schools after all, a high court [...]
- Majority Of Americans Want Local Action On Global Warming, Says Poll
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Nearly three-quarters of Americans are willing to pay more in taxes and other expenses to support local government-led initiatives designed to reduce global warming, according [...]
- World climate deal faces hurdles for ‘09 deadline
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A growing sense of urgency is pushing world leaders to agree a new treaty to fight climate change but the U.S. presidential election might still [...]
- PG&E giving away 1 mln energy-saving lightbulbs
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LOS ANGELES – Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Wednesday said it will give away 1 million energy-saving lightbulbs this month in what it is [...]
- U.S. promotes light bulb swap
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday kicked off a campaign to get U.S. consumers to switch to energy-efficient light bulbs as a way of reducing [...]
- China to switch to energy-efficient lightbulbs
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China, which makes 70 percent of the world’s lightbulbs, has agreed to phase out incandescent bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient ones, part of a [...]
