Climate Change Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Climate Change.
Canada PM on pipeline plan: Oil to come anyway
A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Stephen Harper addressed the Keystone XL project, a flashpoint in the debate over climate change, during ...
Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks ...
Natural gas export plans stir debate
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Expanded drilling is ...
Plans to export US natural gas stir debate
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Expanded drilling is ...
Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone. The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a monitoring site that sets the world's benchmark. It's a symbolic ...
Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record
Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station which is in Hawaii sets the global benchmark. The ...
State College mayor urges fossil fuel divestment
The mayor of the central Pennsylvania borough of State College has endorsed a campaign that urges municipalities to divest from fossil fuel companies, the environmental group 350.org said in a release Thursday. Borough Mayor Elizabeth Goreham joined nine other mayors in urging municipalities to divest from the top 200 fossil ...
UN official hopeful about 2015 climate talks
Governments are more serious and the impact of climate change is more dramatic, improving chances of a groundbreaking global warming pact in 2015 in contrast with the failure of such an effort in 2009, the U.N. climate chief said Tuesday. The climate change talks in Copenhagen were a resounding failure, ...
Activist with celebrity backing ends prison stint
Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday — all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal ...
Santorum visits Steubenville; Talks global warming, family values
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – About 500 people showed up Monday at a local diner in Steubenville, Ohio, to support former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum as he gave a policy speech. Santorum said President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on ...
Cars & Climate Change
As the Obama Administration set out tough new rules for fuel mileage standards Thursday, getting less attention was the release of the first regulations ever placed on greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions, an effort by the feds to slow the effects of climate change. "Establishing a harmonized approach to regulating light-duty ...
Dems Roll Dice On Climate Change
The lobbying was furious on Thursday, as the White House and Democratic Leaders in the Congress tried to gain the votes needed to approve a controversial bill designed to limit the emission of pollutants that some argue cause global warming. President Obama was at work through the day, both in ...
Global Warming
A U.S. House Committee kicks off a four day series of hearings today on global warming legislation, an issue that's sure to kick up some partisan dust in coming months. What supporters want is the Congress to legislate new controls on climate change/greenhouse gases/global warming pollutants, mainly by placing new ...
Leaders Launch Citywide Campaign To Cut Global Warming
The Pittsburgh Climate Initiative launched a new citywide campaign, "The Black and Gold City Goes Green," on Tuesday.According to the initiative, this marks the first-ever attempt by any city in the nation to run a citywide citizen action campaign to cut global warming.Leaders from community groups, the business sector, local ...
Report Released On Effects Of Global Warming In Pennsylvania
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, global warming has already changed Pennsylvania’s climate.A report released by the group says the average temperatures in the Northeast are one and a half degrees higher than in 1970.The groups study said if fossil fuel emissions aren't cut, Pennsylvania will look very different ...
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