LONDON, UK, August 10, 2012 (ENS) – More than 1,100 public companies listed on the London Stock Exchange will have to report their greenhouse gas emissions from next April under plans announced at the Rio+20 Summit that are now moving forward. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2012 (ENS) – Eight U.S. biofuel industry organizations have formed a new coalition to defend the nation’s Renewable Fuel Standard and to advocate for domestic production of advanced biofuels. […]
SEATTLE, Washington, August 1, 2012 (ENS) – Six teenaged petitioners and their guardians Tuesday appealed their climate change lawsuit to the Washington State Supreme Court after a King County Superior Court judge dismissed the case. […]
CORVALLIS, Oregon, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – The climate’s “new normal” for most of the coming century will parallel the long-term drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 – the most severe drought in 800 years. […]
AUSTIN, Texas, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A state air pollution permit for a petroleum coke-fueled power plant planned for a city on the Texas coast was struck down […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – Retail food prices are predicted to rise as soon as this fall due to the high temperatures, low rainfall and 70-year record drought across the Midwest that have boosted commodity prices for corn, soybeans and other field crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Virtually the entire ice sheet covering Greenland – from its coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center – experienced some degree of melting for several days this month, according to an analysis by NASA and university scientists based on measurements from three satellites. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2012 (ENS) – More than 150,000 additional Americans could die by the end of this century due to excessive heat caused by climate change, finds […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 17, 2012 (ENS) – One of New Zealand’s major environmental groups will appeal a decision by the Environment Court that stops climate change impacts from […]
SEATTLE, Washington, May 15, 2012 (ENS) – As the climate heats up across the Western Hemisphere, many animals will not be able to move fast enough to find safe […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 15, 2012 (ENS) – Airlines flying to and from European airports have complied with the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and reported their greenhouse gas emissions data, […]
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 9, 2012 (ENS) – As the climate warms, plant species that prefer a colder environment are disappearing from the mountain ranges of Southern Europe. Since many […]
DAVOS, Switzerland, January 30, 2010 (ENS) – The head of the International Monetary Fund today proposed to create a multi-billion dollar Green Fund that would provide the financing that […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 29, 2010 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today announced that the federal government will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2020. “As the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2010 (ENS) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to provide publicly traded companies with interpretive guidance on existing SEC disclosure requirements relating […]
DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland, January 29, 2010 (ENS) – U.S. Congressman Edward Markey told the World Economic Forum today that President Barack Obama has committed himself to passing climate legislation. Markey […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2010 (ENS) – Concentrations of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide must be below 100 parts per billion in any one-hour period under a new national […]
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