GM's Champion Stalls
Submitted by Bob Burton on
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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Bush Administration Quietly Working to Weaken Clean Air Act
Submitted by Anne Landman on
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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Cherry-Picking Skeptic
Submitted by Bob Burton on
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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Edelman's "Carbon Messaging": COP15 Means Business
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Mark Grundy, who works for the PR firm Edelman, sees business opportunities in climate change.
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Coal Burners Invest in Environmental Journalism
Submitted by Bob Burton on
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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Radioactive Grassroots
Submitted by Bob Burton on
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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"Clean Coal" Boosters Plan to Ridicule Renewable Energy
Submitted by Bob Burton on
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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Will Marketers Say: Save the Planet, Buy Less Stuff?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"The ultimate selling proposition might just be saving the planet," said International Advertising Association (IAA) executive director Michael Lee.
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British Shell Game on Carbon Emissions
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
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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Climate Changers Go Lobbying
Submitted by Bob Burton on
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
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