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EU to US: "Talk To Yourself!"

13 Dec 07
BALI, Indonesia - European nations will boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions, Germany's environment minister said Thursday.


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White House Ignoring Big Business Push For Mandatory Carbon Caps

30 Nov 07

For a while now, major corporations have been pushing for mandatory greenhouse gas emission caps from the US government.

Big business understands the inevitability of having to deal with the global warming issue and the sooner they can see a strong economic signal from government, the sooner they can get on with tackling the issue on a level playing field.

Today, big business has kicked that demand way up.


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"Two Paths For The Planet"

21 Jun 07

The American Prospect, June 19, 2007 Two Paths for the Planet: Will we rewire the world with clean energy – or descend into political chaos, social disruption and climate hell?

And will Washington get with the program?


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Bush: Nine States and 163 Nations Can't Be Right

29 Sep 06
White House Says No Change on US Carbon Strategy

 

Planetark.org, Sept. 29, 2006

 

NEW YORK - The Bush administration has no plans to ease its opposition to national limits on greenhouse gas output despite talk that a change may be under consideration, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday.


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White House Environmental Chief Launches Stealth Attack on Climate Science

21 Jul 06

James Connaughton, head of the White House Environmental Office (CEQ)James Connaughton told Congress:  “There’s a lot of agreement … on warming...We begin to get into issues [of disagreement] about the extent to which humans are a problem.”