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EPA Sets 2011 Renewable Fuel Standards
While the overall percentage for 2011 is lower than the 2010 standard, next year’s total volume is larger than this year’s mandate of 12.95 billion gallons.
Fox News Hearts New Global Warming Movie
After watching this softball interview from Fox News lending support to the new documentary film by Danish political scientist and “skeptical environmentalist,” Bjorn Lomborg. Cool It, is being billed as a sort of counterpoint to Al Gore’s 2006 blockbuster, An Inconvenient Truth, stressing Lomborg’s favorite themes: cost benefit analysis; technological innovation over regulation and; the [...]
Bluefin Tuna Get No Help from International Community
Delegates from 48 fishing countries meeting in Paris this week failed Saturday to take aggressive steps to protect the Atlantic bluefin tuna populations either in the Gulf of Mexico or the Mediterranean.
EPA: Three Letters to Be Thankful For
The Environmental Protection Agency celebrates its 40th anniversary next week. But I think it’s worth taking a moment this week to be thankful for what the EPA has accomplished during four decades.
Cancún Climate Talks: In Search of the Holy Grail of Climate Change Policy
By The Guardian on November 30, 2010
Although Copenhagen fell short of delivering a legally binding global treaty, Cancún is another step towards that ultimate goal.
Category: Climate Change | Tags: Cancún climate change conference 2010, Climate Change, Comment, cop16, Environment, Global climate talks, mexico, un, united nations | 0