News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The United Nations has begun scaling back expectations of what can be achieved at its climate conference in Copenhagen as a US bill to establish emission targets and a cap-and-trade scheme ran into resistance from Democrat senators from rural and...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
THE United Nations has begun scaling back expectations of what can be achieved at Copenhagen, as United States senators locked horns on Capitol Hill over emissions targets and a cap-and-trade scheme. During the first day of hearings on the climate...
News Source: Dallas Observer
| about 1 month ago
Senate Democrats pressed forward Tuesday with the first committee hearing on legislation that would force utilities, refineries and other major polluters to reduce emissions that cause global warming. It would also channel billions of dollars to...
News Source: Politico
| about 1 month ago
Moderate members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday signaled a tough battle ahead to win Senate approval of climate change legislation, even if the White House pours significant political capital into the fight. Sen. Max...
News Source: BDNews24
| about 1 month ago
The United States does not expect to reach an agreement on climate change with China during President Barack Obama's visit to Beijing next month, the country's senior climate change envoy said on Wednesday. "I don't think we are getting any agreement...
News Source: Tulsa World
| about 1 month ago
Jim Inhofe and John Kerry took turns Tuesday challenging each other over jobs, costs, taxes and even the need to pass historic climate-change legislation...Senate, the two global-warming antagonists ended up talking past each other and at times were...