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Utilities quit group over its opposition to climate change bill
Exelon, the nation's biggest operator of nuclear power plants, said Monday that it's quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the business group's lobbying against climate and energy legislation. Last week, two other large energy companies, Pacific Gas and Electric and PNM Resources, also quit the Chamber over objections to its stance on climate change. | 09/28/09 18:49:00 By - Renee Schoof
Answer to U.S. search for clean coal may lie in China
As the United States begins spending $3.4 billion in stimulus money to seek a commercially viable way to capture carbon dioxide from coal burning and bury it underground, some energy experts say that doing some of the work as a joint project in China would cut costs and time. | 09/24/09 16:39:00 By - Renee Schoof
China, U.S. promise bold steps to protect climate
Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao of China - the leaders of the two countries that emit the most greenhouse gases - pledged at a United Nations summit Tuesday that their countries would take bold actions to protect the Earth's future climate from irreversible damages. | 09/22/09 18:44:00 By - Warren P. Strobel and Renee Schoof
Can U.S., China find common ground in climate talks?
The U.S. and China should be able to agree on energy cooperation projects that reduce greenhouse gases and lead to a successful outcome at international climate talks in Copenhagen in December, two U.S. climate insiders said Tuesday. | 09/15/09 16:37:00 By - Renee Schoof and Margaret Talev
EPA to take closer look at 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny. The EPA's action was an abrupt shift from the Obama administration's approach in May, when it blocked only six of 48 permits. | 09/11/09 18:54:00 By - Renee Schoof
Climate bill needed for U.S. security, ex-officials insist
America's national security is at risk unless Congress and the Obama administration end partisan wrangling and agree on legislation to reduce U.S. contributions to climate change, a bipartisan group of former presidential advisers, cabinet members, senators and military leaders said Tuesday | 09/08/09 16:21:00 By - Renee Schoof
Study finds more evidence rapid Arctic warming isn't natural
The Arctic was cooling for 1,900 years because of a natural change in Earth's orbit, according to a study published Thursday in Science magazine. The orbit hasn't changed, adding evidence that warming is caused by burning fossil fuels, the study concludes. | 09/03/09 14:17:00 By - Renee Schoof
U.S., Canada near agreement to control pollutants from ships
The five-story-tall engines on oceangoing vessels burn some of the dirtiest oil — bottom-of-the-barrel bunker — and churn out a substantial amount of the air pollution in American port cities, coastal communities along shipping lanes and places hundreds of miles inland. | 09/02/09 17:04:00 By - Renee Schoof
A bright idea: LED light bulbs yield big savings in energy
One way the United States could slash its electricity use, dependence on fossil fuels and emissions of heat-trapping gases is really quite simple: better light bulbs. Lighting consumes 22 percent of electricity in the United States. If American homes could be switched to so-called solid state lighting, that would save the amount of electricity produced by 40 large power plants. | 08/12/09 17:01:00 By - Renee Schoof
U.S. to spend $2.4 billion to boost use of electric vehicles
Declaring that electric cars could help put Americans to work and reduce dependence on oil, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the federal government would spend $2.4 billion in stimulus money to build batteries and get the first batch of thousands of U.S.-made electric vehicles onto the roads. | 08/05/09 18:51:00 By - Renee Schoof
Climate plan's backers have tougher audience in Senate
Senate supporters of a bill that for the first time would put limits on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have launched an intense one-on-one effort to sound out their Senate colleagues' views in hopes of winning their support. | 07/10/09 15:57:00 By - Renee Schoof and David Lightman
House climate bill wouldn't cut U.S. oil dependence much
Despite its title as the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" the energy and climate bill that the House of Representatives passed recently takes only a modest step toward reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Two studies project that the legislation would cut oil use in the future, but not enough to make a dent in dependence on oil from unstable or unfriendly foreign suppliers. | 07/03/09 14:08:00 By - Renee Schoof
EPA list shows dangerous coal ash sites found in 10 states
The Environmental Protection Agency wanted to limit distribution of the list to members of Congress, but agreed to make the list public under pressure from Sen. Barbara Boxer. The list included 44 coal-fired power plant waste sites in 10 states with a high hazard potential, including 12 sites in North Carolina, seven in Kentucky and a large storage pond in Pennsylvania. | 06/29/09 18:52:00 By - Renee Schoof
Historic climate bill passes House in a close vote
The House of Representatives on Friday voted 219 to 212 to take historic steps to reduce the heat-trapping gases building up in the atmosphere and gradually shift America to cleaner sources of energy. However, the measure is still a long way from becoming law. The Senate now will work out its own version, and the results of a planned vote there this fall are uncertain. | 06/26/09 19:51:29 By - Renee Schoof and David Lightman
Climate bill will pass House on Friday, lawmaker predicts
A Democrat who helped draft the sweeping climate bill that limits greenhouse gases and improves the nation's energy efficiency predicted Wednesday that the legislation would be approved by the House on Friday. | 06/24/09 19:23:00 By - Renee Schoof
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