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Honda to Expand Production In U.S., Unveil New Hybrid

Honda Motor Co. said yesterday that it will expand production in the United States and Canada and introduce a small hybrid gas-electric passenger car and [...]

Sholnn Freeman (The Washington Post | May 20, 2006)

Global Warming Melting “Roof of the World” Glacier

NANNING, April 30 (Xinhua) — Pouring over four decades of research based on data from China’s 681 weather stations, the country’s scientists
have found that global [...]

Zhu Jin (Chinaview.cn | May 2, 2006)

City-owned vehicles to use biodiesel fuel

City-owned vehicles in San Francisco, including fire engines, buses and even a mobile zoo, will use biodiesel fuel that reduces harmful emissions under an executive [...]

Cecilia M. Vega (the Guardian | May 19, 2006)

Shaping Restaurants to Be Models of Efficiency

HERE’S food for thought: if restaurants were automobiles, they would be Hummers. That’s because the restaurant business wastes more energy than any other industry in [...]

Laura Novak (The New York Times | May 18, 2006)

Climate Change May Kill Millions in Africa

LONDON – Disease spread by global warming could kill an extra 185 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of the century and turn [...]

Jeremy Lovell (Reuters | May 18, 2006)

To Revitalize a City, Try Spreading Some Mulch

IN many ways, this city’s current fortunes are all about mulch. It’s everywhere. Bark mulch is spread in neat circles around the city’s trees; roughly [...]

Keith Schneider (The New York Times | May 17, 2006)

Wave of Butterflies Slows to a Trickle

FRESNO – The number of butterflies migrating through California has
fallen to nearly a 40-year low as populations already hurt by habitat
loss and climate change encountered [...]

Associated Press (Associated Press | May 13, 2006)

Curb Your Auto Enthusiasm

By Bradley Berman
Curb Your Auto Enthusiasm
Comedian Larry David’s wife Laurie has a serious cause: reducing global warming by getting auto makers to make more environmentally-friendly [...]

Bradley Berman (Business Week | May 12, 2006)

U.S. Must Enact Mandatory Limits on Global Warming Pollution

WASHINGTON (May 10, 2006) — Today the House Appropriations Committee approved a resolution already passed in the Senate that recognizes the problem of global warming [...]

NRDC (NRDC | May 11, 2006)

Gov. Ehrlich Signs Landmark MD Pollution Law

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (April 6, 2006) ­
Today Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich signed into law a bill that will cut air pollution and join Maryland in an [...]

Elizabeth Heyd (NRDC | April 6, 2006)