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Obama aims for tougher fuel economy rules for big vehicles
The Obama Administration has announced plans to develop more strict rules regarding the fuel economy of big vehicles such as school buses, garbage trucks, and delivery vans. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving forward with a fuel economy concept for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The first models to be subject to the new rules will be those produced in 2014. Proponents of the Regulation hope for 20 percent less Greenhouse Gas Emissions and fuel...

James Cameron: a bully and a gigantic hypocrite
Director James Cameron is out to save the planet . If you are skeptical of the claims of the alarmists that Man is destroying the planet via Greenhouse Gas Emissions, he calls you a denier who has your head up your backside . He’d like to have a “shootout” with you, except that, when taken up on the offer, he suddenly has other things to do… Anyway, wouldn’t you expect that, being a good little cultist of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, he’d try...

James Cameron: a bully and a gigantic hypocrite
Director James Cameron is out to save the planet . If you are skeptical of the claims of the alarmists that Man is destroying the planet via Greenhouse Gas Emissions, he calls you a denier who has your head up your backside . He’d like to have a “shootout” with you, except that, when taken up on the offer, he suddenly has other things to do… Anyway, wouldn’t you expect that, being a good little cultist of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, he’d try...

Government to propose truck fuel efficiency rules
Source: Associated Press Plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel consumption Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in...

Energy Conservation Tips
Posted on 26 October 2010 Did you know, by conserving Energy you can actually save money..?! Well yes that is right. You save money as well as protect the environment from the poisonous Greenhouse Gas Emissions . Conserving Energy means to save Energy. Tips To Conserve Energy There are many ways to conserve Energy . Just follow thesimple and easy Energy saving tips and save Energy and money both at one time. 1) Install CLF Bulbs:

China refuses to budge on greenhouse gases
Beijing — China refused to budge Wednesday on its demands that rich nations commit to large Greenhouse Gas cuts at upcoming Climate Change talks, while also declining to put a ceiling on its own Emissions. China and other Developing nations will call on rich Countries to cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels at negotiations in Copenhagen in December, said Yu Qingtai, China's top Climate negotiator. "We have all along believed that due to the historical...

Americans For Prosperity Lies: ‘We’re Not Arguing The Science Of Climate Change’
Americans For Prosperity Lies: ‘We’re Not Arguing The Science Of Climate Change’ Tonight, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is screening the Documentary (Astro)Turf Wars . Following the screening, the ThinkProgress Wonk Room will host a panel with director Taki Oldham, Americans for Prosperity’s Phil Kerpen, and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. The panel will be streamed live here . The Pollution-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) claims not to...

Ken Buck would let climate change ruin Colorado and unilaterally disarm its clean energy leadership
Tea Party favorite and would-be GOP Senator from Colorado, Ken Buck, has burst into the National scene with his Climate denial (see Buck embraces Inhofe: Global Warming is the greatest Hoax ). Sure a study by the Aspen Global Change Institute forecasts that if Global Carbon Emissions continue to rise at their current pace, Aspen could warm by some 14 degrees by century’s end giving it a feel similar to Amarillo, TX. Hey, there will always be hiking! And sure another ...

Safe Climate | Safe Climate Campaign
Everyone wants a safe world where we can enjoy a clean environment. The Safe Climate Campaign is working to solve the biggest challenge we face: Global Warming. The technology exists today to protect our fragile Climate by cutting our dependence on polluting Fossil Fuels, such as oil. We have a responsibility to our Children and our communities to take sensible steps now to become good stewards of the air and Climate we depend on to sustain us. Earth's  Climate is regulated by the...

EPA plan could cut truck emissions
Large commercial trucks would be forced to slash their Greenhouse Gas Emissions by as much as 20 percent under a new proposal from the Obama Administration.  The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department on Monday announced the first-ever Greenhouse Gas limits and Fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. Continue Reading Text Size Politico 44 The draft rules would mandate cuts in Fuel consumption and Emissions by up to 20 percent for long-haul...

EPA head: New carbon controls on big trucks and buses 'win for planet'
The Obama Administration on Monday continued its push to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicles, proposing the first-ever Emissions limits for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. The joint requirement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would require a 20 percent cut in Emissions and fuel use from long-haul tractor-trailer trucks for model years 2014 to 2018. This will be a win-win-win, for reducing oil...

Ethanol's Failed Promise
The willingness to try, fail and try again is the essence of scientific progress. The same sometimes holds true for Public Policy. It is in this spirit that today, Earth Day, we call upon Congress to revisit recently enacted federal mandates requiring the diversion of foodstuffs for production of Biofuels. These "food-to-fuel" mandates were meant to move America toward Energy Independence and mitigate global Climate Change. But the evidence irrefutably demonstrates that this Policy is not...

Rockefellers take aim at ExxonMobil
OPEC's magical Oil supplies More Videos More from Fortune Foreclosuregate: Playing with fire? 40 reasons why it's great to be a business leader under 40 Delphi ex-CEO has his day in court FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune NEW YORK (Fortune) -- It's hard to imagine why ExxonMobil shareholders are so unhappy. After all, the world's largest publicly-owned Energy company rode the Surge in Oil Prices to a record $40 Billion in earnings last year, making it by far the most...

Hawaii Representative Crafting ‘Environmentally Responsible’ Plan That Would Endanger His State
Hawaii Representative Crafting ‘Environmentally Responsible’ Plan That Would Endanger His State It seems that Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) is crafting a plan that could lead to the inundation of Hawaii’s beaches, the extinction of its Species, and the destruction of its Water Supply. Abercrombie and John Peterson (R-PA) are creating a “working group” to establish a “ comprehensive, environmentally responsible energy plan ,” whose members will be...

White House seeks fuel efficiency standards for trucks, buses
Washington — The Obama Administration on Monday proposed the first Fuel-efficiency and Greenhouse gas reduction standards for trucks and buses and said the new program would reduce the nation's use of oil, cut Emissions of heat-trapping Gases and save money. The new standards will apply to semi trucks, heavy-duty pickups and vans, and vehicles such as school buses and fire engines. The standards phase in for model years 2014 to 2018. The new standards are what Environmental...

Time for a 'Telecom Act' for clean energy
Guess Bloggers Ken Berlin and Bracken Hendricks first posted this on TPM Cafe. In 1973, Motorola demonstrated the world’s first cell phone, weighing in at close to four and a half pounds[1]. It was not introduced into the U.S. until 1983, and after slow growth at first, over the course of just ten years from 1997 to 2007 the total number of Mobile Phone subscriptions jumped from reaching 8% of Global population to serving nearly half of all the world’s inhabitants. By the...

Climate Action: Down to Business
This is the first two parts of a multi-part series by Guest Blogger William Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project . 1. THE SITUATION There will come a time when Governments are forced to Act on Global Climate Change. Its impacts will be increasingly devastating and undeniable. Its costs will swell like a Tsunami. We will see many more Katrinas with Victims stranded not because Governments are incompetent, but because they are overwhelmed. When that...

Meet the Global Warming Skeptics: Ignorant Tea Party Fundamentalists, Oil Company Shills
Thursday’s front-page story by reporter John Broder on the Climate Change debate cast skeptics that the earth is dangerously Warming because of man as ignorant Bible-thumpers and tools of the Oil Industry: “ Skepticism on Climate Change Is Article of Faith for Tea Party .” Broder reported from Jasper, Indiana and found some Big fat targets for liberal disdain: At a Candidate forum here last week, Representative Baron P. Hill, a threatened Democratic Incumbent in a largely...

Politics: European Energy Companies Funding Climate Skeptic Campaigns in the U.S.
There's been no shortage of attention paid to the vast amount of money being poured in the 2010 Midterm campaigns by corporationswith the bulk of the cash going to conservative Candidates. Given the strongly skeptical views on Climate Change that now dominate the Republican Partyand especially their angrier cousins in the Tea Party that's bad news for anyone hoping Congress will act on Carbon Emissions, or even just energy as a whole. But for what greens call the Fossil-fuel lobby...

It's Time for a "Telecom Act" for Clean Energy
In 1973, Motorola demonstrated the world's first cell phone, weighing in at close to four and a half pounds[1]. It was not introduced into the U.S. until 1983, and after slow growth at first, over the course of just ten years from 1997 to 2007 the total number of Mobile Phone subscriptions jumped from reaching 8% of Global population to serving nearly half of all the world's inhabitants. By the close of 2009, the number of cellular phone users had grown still further to 4.6 Billion in a world...

Women Still Kept Away From Peace Talks, Contrary to U.N. Resolution, Study Says
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press United Nations (AP) - The goal of a U.N. resolution adopted 10 years ago to put women in decision-making positions at every level of Peace-making and Peace-building is not being met, according to a year-long study in six countries. The study was released Monday, the eve of a ministerial meeting of the U.N. Security Council to review progress toward implementing the resolution on women, Peace and Security. U.S. Secretary of State...

Roger Pielke, Jr. presentation on "The Climate Fix: A Pragmatic Future for Climate Policy"
reduction derived from various academic exercises. Such methods are both oblivious to and in violation of on-the-ground political and technological realities that serve as practical "boundary conditions" for effective policy making. Until climate policies are designed with respect for these boundary conditions, failure is certain.  Using nothing more than arithmetic and logical explanation, this paper provides a comprehensive exploration of the problem and its resolution - such as investing...

Santos: 'Proposition 19 Could Change Colombia's Drug Policy'
Tell me if there is a way to explain to a Colombian peasant that if he produces marijuana we are going to put him in jail [while] the same product is legal [in California]. Thats going to produce a comprehensive discussion on the approach we have taken on the fight against drug trafficking, said Santos, who, a couple of months earlier, endorsed the call for a debate on drug legalization made by Mexican president Felipe Caldern. However, Santos has also said that he believes that...

Government seeks truck fuel efficiency rules
Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in Greenhouse gas...

Environment and Climate
  In 2008, Electrabel, number one producer in Belgium, launched a large sustainable development plan for reduction of Carbon Emissions. The company, which had already reduced its CO2 Emissions by 29% since 1990, is committed to another 1.7 million-ton reduction between now and 2015.