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Air/Climate

G-20 to Phase Out Super Greenhouse Gas, Fossil Fuel Subsidies

September 6, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on G-20 to Phase Out Super Greenhouse Gas, Fossil Fuel Subsidies

 

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, September 6, 2013 (ENS) – Transcending their disagreements over Syrian chemical weapons, the G-20 leaders managed to reach agreement on confronting climate change in two [...]

leaders
Air/Climate

Obama Forges Climate Consensus With Nordic Countries

September 5, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Obama Forges Climate Consensus With Nordic Countries

 

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 5, 2013 (ENS) – President Obama is now in St. Petersburg, Russia at the G20 economic meeting, but he woke up this morning in Stockholm, [...]

McCarthy
Air/Climate

New EPA Chief Targets Climate Change

July 31, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on New EPA Chief Targets Climate Change

 

By Alvin Powell

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 31, 2013 (ENS) – Newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on Tuesday pledged action on climate change during the Obama [...]

McCarthy
Gov/Politics

McCarthy Finally Confirmed to Head U.S. EPA

July 18, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on McCarthy Finally Confirmed to Head U.S. EPA

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 18, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Senate voted 59-40 this afternoon to confirm Regina McCarthy as to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after a [...]

negotiators
Gov/Politics

U.S., China Collaborate on Climate, Oceans, Energy, Wildlife

July 12, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S., China Collaborate on Climate, Oceans, Energy, Wildlife

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 12, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. and China have agreed to combat climate change through new cooperation on heavy-duty and other vehicles; smart grids; carbon [...]

Earth
Air/Climate

Obama’s Climate Action Plan: Highlights and Reactions

June 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Obama’s Climate Action Plan: Highlights and Reactions

 

WASHINGTON, DC, June 25, 2013 (ENS) – “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” declared President Barack Obama today at Georgetown University, taking [...]

President Obama
Air/Climate

President Obama’s Climate Change Speech: Full Text

June 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on President Obama’s Climate Change Speech: Full Text

WASHINGTON, DC, Georgetown University, June 25, 2013 – Thank you! (Applause.) Thank you, Georgetown! Thank you so much. Everybody, please be seated. And my first announcement today is that [...]

President Obama
Air/Climate

President Obama Takes Executive Action on Climate Change

June 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on President Obama Takes Executive Action on Climate Change

 

WASHINGTON, DC, June 25, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today will present his three-pronged plan to deal with climate change – reduce carbon emissions, prepare the United [...]

Air/Climate

G8 Leaders Pledge Global Climate Deal by 2015

June 19, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on G8 Leaders Pledge Global Climate Deal by 2015

 

LOUGH ERNE, Northern Ireland, June 19, 2013 (ENS) – Declarations of cooperation on climate change, extractive industries, nuclear safety and chemical weapons in Syria and marked this week’s [...]

climate demonstration
Air/Climate

Mayors Vow to Strengthen Defenses Against Extreme Weather

June 17, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Mayors Vow to Strengthen Defenses Against Extreme Weather

 

WASHINGTON, DC, June 17, 2013 (ENS) – As unprecedented extreme weather and climate change wreak havoc across the country, 48 local elected officials today committed themselves to fortifying [...]

Obama, Xi
Air/Climate

U.S, China Presidents Agree on Joint Climate Protection

June 10, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S, China Presidents Agree on Joint Climate Protection

 

WASHINGTON, DC, June 10, 2013 (ENS) – For the first time, the United States and China will work together and with other countries to phase down the consumption [...]

Frank Lautenberg
Gov/Politics

Senator Frank Lautenberg, Environmental Champion, Passes Away

June 3, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Senator Frank Lautenberg, Environmental Champion, Passes Away

 

WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2013 (ENS) – Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, the oldest senator and last World War II veteran in the United States Senate, [...]

Taksim Square
Gov/Politics

Istanbul Environmental Protest Turns Deadly, Inflames Turkey

June 2, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Istanbul Environmental Protest Turns Deadly, Inflames Turkey

 

ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 2, 2013 (ENS) – What began on Friday as a peaceful environmental protest against government-backed plans to replace a park in central Istanbul with a [...]

report
Gov/Politics

UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress

May 31, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress

 

NEW YORK, New York, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Protecting the environment must be at the core of efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030, finds a high-level [...]

San Onofre
Energy

Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant

May 29, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Southern California Edison’s statements [...]

Arctic ministers
Air/Climate

Arctic Council Prioritizes Sustainable Development, Climate Action

May 16, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Arctic Council Prioritizes Sustainable Development, Climate Action

 

KIRUNA, Sweden, May 16, 2013 (ENS) – Ministers from the eight Arctic states and representatives of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples Wednesday adopted a shared vision statement for the [...]

turtle
Gov/Politics

Australia Trims Environmental Protection in Deficit Budget

May 14, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Australia Trims Environmental Protection in Deficit Budget

 

CANBERRA, Australia, May 14, 2013 (ENS) – Environmentalists criticized tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry and cuts to renewable energy funding in the Australian government’s new budget, [...]

Park, Obama
Air/Climate

U.S., South Korean Leaders Affirm Climate Change Cooperation

May 7, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S., South Korean Leaders Affirm Climate Change Cooperation

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2013 (ENS) – In her first foreign visit since taking office in February, South Korean President Park Geun-hye joined with President Barack Obama today [...]

Kerry, Kishida
Air/Climate

U.S., Japan, G8 Commit to Climate Change Action

April 18, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S., Japan, G8 Commit to Climate Change Action

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 18, 2013 (ENS) – Support for global action to curb climate change is growing stronger within the G8 group of the world’s largest industrial democracies, [...]

Sally Jewell
Gov/Politics

Jewell Will Handle $11.9 Billion Interior Budget in 2014

April 11, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Jewell Will Handle $11.9 Billion Interior Budget in 2014

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget, “starts getting the Department of the Interior out of a ditch,” said outgoing Interior [...]

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