WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied 10 petitions challenging EPA’s 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
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EPA denies challenges to greenhouse gas rule
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected, a senior government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
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Heat damage to Russia crop past worst-official says
LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ climate secretariat on Thursday issued 228,400 Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets to three Asian clean energy projects, ending a two-week issuance drought but failing to reassure concerned investors.
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U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meeting
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/02820d/carbon_trading_and) has announced the addition of the “Carbon Trading and the Effect of the Copenhagen Agreement: Technical Options and Economic Drivers to a Low Carbon Future” report to their offering. The reduction of global carbon emissions is now widely regarded as …
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Debt held against one of the country’s most emissions-intensive power stations, Loy Yang B in the Latrobe Valley, has been downgraded to one step above junk.
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Carbon fog hits debt
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Dalian Port has resumed operations of all its terminal and ground facilities, it said on Thursday, nearly two weeks after a fire and oil spill forced the closure of most of the port’s berths.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in China’s far west have bred and trained “an army” of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday.
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China trains foxes to combat rat plague
LONDON (Reuters) – A fleet of 6,000 bicycles for hire will hit the streets of central London on Friday when the city’s mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme intended to fuel a cycling revolution in the congested capital.
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Hire scheme aims to get Londoners on bikes
Hackers hijacked Europe’s carbon-trading website and replaced it with spoof page detailing flaws in cap and trade scheme Anti-carbon trading activists shut down the website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX) , over the weekend, replacing the site with a spoof page lampooning the industry. The website of the London-based carbon credit trading platform was hacked at close to midnight on Friday …
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Hackers shut EU carbon-trading website
Motorists should be excluded from any proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme because it would be ineffective at reducing greenhouse gases, Caltex says.
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Exclude fuel from carbon scheme: Caltex
Oil giant Caltex says a carbon pollution reduction scheme will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels and other policies are needed.
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Greenhouse push to exclude fuel, Caltex
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Greenpeace said on Thursday it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orangutan habitats in Kalimantan.
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Indonesian Sinar Mas-linked firms wrecked forest: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data.
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Ten key indicators show global warming "undeniable"
BEIJING (Reuters) – Water supplies were cut for a time to part of the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin, after a flood washed thousands of barrels of a dangerous chemical from a factory into the area’s main river, state media said on Thursday.
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Water cut to north China city after chemical spill
HOUSTON/MIAMI (Reuters) – BP Plc may permanently shut the well that caused the worst off-shore oil spill in U.S. history as early as Monday, the company said as speculation grew over assets it might sell to cover mounting costs
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BP aims for quick well kill; weighs asset sales
Foreign-owned “carbon foresters” have ambitions to turn a fifth of New Zealand sheep and beef farmland into forests and that will devastate many rural towns, the national farmers’ lobby says. read more
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Farmer’s lobby fear foreign foresters
BIRDFOOT DELTA, Louisiana (Reuters) – Marsh grasses are the tough guys of the plant world. Left alone, they dominate coastal marshes from Texas to Newfoundland
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Special Report: Watching grass grow in the Gulf, and cheering!
Foreign-owned “carbon foresters” have ambitions to turn a fifth of New Zealand sheep and beef farmland into forests and that will devastate many rural towns, the national farmers’ lobby says
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Worry over foreign "carbon foresters" hurting rural towns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats unveiled a slimmed down bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming offshore drilling, as doubts grew that Congress would be able to pass any substantial energy legislation this year.
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Senate unveils energy bill, doubts on passage
Foreign-owned “carbon foresters” have ambitions to turn a fifth of New Zealand sheep and beef farmland into forests.
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Foreign foresters could ‘rip the heart out of rural towns’