The UK’s Independent is telling us Bush faces legal action over global warming.
A number of environmental groups have joined with a dozen US states and several cities to try to force the government to make the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulate carbon emissions under the framework of the Clean Air Extension Act. This legislation, passed […]
The Belfast Telegraph is reporting on a Plan to impose EU-wide carbon limit.
Europe should set a new, unilateral, target for cutting CO2 emissions, agree legally binding plans to boost renewable energy and bring cars into its carbon trading scheme, according to a European Commission document.
The blueprint, drawn up by the Commission’s vice-president, Gunther Verheugen, marks […]
The Indian website Daily News & Analysis, is reporting Plane crash kills Mr Hybrid.
David Hermance, 59, died when the single-seat experimental plane he was piloting crashed into the ocean off San Pedro in southern California on Saturday after performing several loops and spins.
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that the married father-of-two […]
I just got this email update from Greenpeace. The NSW Land and Environment Court handed down a landmark ruling rejecting the development of the Anvil Hill coal mine in the Hunter Valley, setting a precedent for future mining projects in NSW.
Yesterday afternoon, Justice Nicola Pain ruled in favour of Newcastle student Peter Gray saying […]
Yesterday I received an email via Greenpeace Australia about the Anvil Hill open-cut coal mining project:
The Land and Environment Court will hand down their decision on the Anvil Hill mine court case at 4pm today:
Newcastle student Peter Gray lodged a court challenge against the controversial Anvil Hill open-cut coal mine on the grounds that […]
Melbourne’s The Age is running a fascinating opinion piece; We need a market solution to climate change. I’ve extracted the highlights for you.
At present, the policy debate in Australia is largely focused on whether there should be some form of emissions trading introduced. In spite of the recent softening in Canberra’s rhetoric, on this issue […]
The Washington Post is running a story by Laurie David, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, called Science a la Joe Camel. I’ve extracted the gist of it here:
[T]he company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in […]
In the Financial Times today they have a section called Ask the experts: Averting climate change. One punter, a David Wayne from the UK asks:
Given the evident difficulties of reducing emissions, why do we not pay much more attention to the possibilities of increasing net absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by new […]
In the UK The Guardian is reporting Dirty movies: why Hollywood is a polluter.
Special effects explosions and idling vehicles are among the reasons for Hollywood’s newly-discovered role as an air polluter, a university study published today said.
University of California research revealed the film and TV industry makes a larger contribution to air pollution in the […]
Blog Green Business News is reporting on the The Climate Group’s proposed standard for voluntary carbon credit programmes.
The proposed standard aims to cover those voluntary carbon emission reduction projects not covered by the Kyoto Protocols Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and help clear up the controversy surrounding corporate […]