Air/Climate
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Climate, Nuclear Disarmament
OSLO, Norway, October 9, 2009 (ENS) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama [...]
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Oregon Dead Zone Blamed on Climate Change
CORVALLIS, Oregon, October 8, 2009 (ENS) – Climate change is likely responsible for the formation of a large dead zone that has formed off the coast of Oregon [...]
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Obama Orders All Federal Agencies to Cut Greenhouse Gases
WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2009 (ENS) – President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order Monday that requires federal agencies to set a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for [...]
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Climate Talks Stall on Developed Countries’ Weak Commitments
BANGKOK, Thailand, October 7, 2009 (ENS) – The total of commitments made by developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions falls short of stabilizing global temperatures at a [...]
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Economic Crisis Has Slowed Global Climate Change
BANGKOK, Thailand, October 7, 2009 (ENS) – Emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas mainly responsible for global warming, could fall three percent worldwide in 2009 due to [...]
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Adirondack Council Rates Officials on Treatment of Largest U.S. Park
ELIZABETHTOWN, New York, October 6, 2009 (ENS) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo earned a perfect rating from the nonprofit Adirondack Council’s State of the Park Report [...]
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North Carolina Enjoys Cleanest Air in 30 Years
RALEIGH, North Carolina, October 5, 2009 (ENS) – North Carolinas smog levels this year are the lowest since the state began monitoring air quality in the 1970s, due [...]
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Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Cost Fertilizer Giant $32.4 Million
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 5, 2009 (ENS) – Mosaic Fertilizer will spend $30 million on air pollution controls to eliminate harmful emissions from sulfuric acid production plants in [...]
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U.S. National Parks Vulnerable as Planet Heats Up
DENVER, Colorado, October 2, 2009 (ENS) – “Climate disruption is the greatest threat ever to America’s national parks,” warns Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization [...]
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Governors’ Global Climate Summit Backs Treaty With Teeth
LOS ANGELES, California, October 2, 2009 (ENS) – At the Governors’ Global Climate Summit today, 30 governors, premiers, mayors and senior officials from around the world and the [...]
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Poor Nations’ Climate Adaptation Could Cost $100 Billion a Year
BANGKOK, Thailand, October 1, 2009 (ENS) – Helping developing countries adapt to climate change will cost the world between US$75 and $100 billion per year for the period [...]