Archive for March, 2009
AP - Rio’s state government will build seven miles (11 kilometers) of concrete walls around some of the biggest slums in an effort to halt deforestation of the jungle surrounding the metropolis, officials said Tuesday.
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Reuters - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a sweeping effort on Tuesday to control greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time help industries that will struggle to meet the proposed environmental requirements.
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AP - House Democratic leaders released a first draft of legislation to curb emissions from global warming. Here are the highlights:
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Reuters - The death toll among ducks that landed on a toxic waste pond at Syncrude Canada Ltd’s oil sands operation last spring was 1,606, more than three times higher than previously made public, Syncrude’s chief executive said on Tuesday.
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AFP - Delegates at UN climate talks on Tuesday targeted more than a dozen new industrial chemicals for inclusion in the successor to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, which runs out in 2012.
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AFP - Two senior executives at French state energy giant Electricite de France (EDF) have been charged on suspicion of spying on Greenpeace, a judicial official said Tuesday.
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AFP - Economic stimulus packages launched by crisis-hit countries are not investing enough in “green” sectors, the environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday.
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AP - Aviation groups in Europe announced a plan Tuesday to change the way commercial planes land in order to reduce their global-warming emissions of carbon dioxide.
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Reuters - Organizers of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games said on Monday they are confident they can find sponsors to help with the estimated C$4.5 million ($3.6 million) cost of keeping the event from adding to global warming.
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Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama signed sweeping land and water conservation rules into law on Monday, setting aside millions of acres as protected areas and delighting environmentalists.
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