Global Warming

GM's Champion Stalls

by Bob Burton — November 23, 2008 - 9:26pm

Following the election victory of Barack Obama, veteran Democratic Congressman John Dingell has been ousted as chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by Henry Waxman.

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New York Times, November 22, 2008

Bush Administration Quietly Working to Weaken Clean Air Act

by Anne Landman — November 19, 2008 - 3:09pm

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to relax air quality rules and make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other pollution-emitting enterprises near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's ten regional administrators have formally opposed the plan.

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Washington Post, November 19, 2008

Cherry-Picking Skeptic

by Bob Burton — October 20, 2008 - 11:59pm

A cardinal rule amongst statisticians is to avoid comparing apples with oranges. But it seems that Danish statistician and climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg has no such reservations.

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Japan Times, October 21, 2008

Coal Burners Invest in Environmental Journalism

by Bob Burton — October 2, 2008 - 5:46am

The Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ), which promotes "excellence in environmental journalism," is gearing up for its annual conference in Roanoke, Virginia in mid-October.

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Society for Environmental Journalists website, October 2008

Radioactive Grassroots

by Bob Burton — September 29, 2008 - 2:51pm

In an opinion column, former Greenpeace activist turned PR consultant Patrick Moore waxes lyrical about a proposal by Luminant to build two new reactors at its Comanche Peak nuclear power station in Texas.

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Dallas Morning News, September 29, 2008

"Clean Coal" Boosters Plan to Ridicule Renewable Energy

by Bob Burton — September 26, 2008 - 1:31am

A leaked draft PR plan by the Clean Coal Council, a Queensland state government partnership with the coal industry, stated that a "key outcome" would be to "turn around attitudes that clean coal is an unproven and unsafe technology." While the PR plan noted that "stakeholders" wanted investment directed to "emissions-free renewable energy technologies, not clean coal," the Council has other ideas.

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The Sunday Mail (Queensland, Australia), September 20, 2008

Will Marketers Say: Save the Planet, Buy Less Stuff?

by Diane Farsetta — September 24, 2008 - 4:07pm

"The ultimate selling proposition might just be saving the planet," said International Advertising Association (IAA) executive director Michael Lee.

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AdWeek, September 22, 2008

British Shell Game on Carbon Emissions

by Judith Siers-Poisson — September 24, 2008 - 3:33pm

According to documents leaked to The Guardian, the British government has been actively trying to undermine the European Union's proposals to drastically reduce carbon emissions in order to combat climate change. The UK wants to be able to count more imported carbon credits in order to meet pollution reduction targets.

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The Guardian (UK), September 18, 2008

Climate Changers Go Lobbying

by Bob Burton — September 23, 2008 - 6:17am

The UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, a group hosted by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Industry, has written to British political leaders requesting a meeting to discuss the development of a "comprehensive package of policy measures to change every major sector of the economy" to combat

Main Source: 
The Guardian (UK), September 19, 2008
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