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• Breaking Irony: Utah Hosts Mayors Summit on Global Warming; We'll Just Burn More Coal, Thanks

  Published: August 31, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Utah, Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Green Cities, Robert Murray

  Robert Redford, SLC mayor Rocky Anderson and Sundance are hosting a major summit of U.S. mayors on the environment Sep. 9-12. This will hopefully... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• What's Most Polluting: Heating or Cooling Your Home?

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Air Pollution, Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Solar

  I was a little surprised by the answer, according to this NPR story. But it all really depends on the weather, now doesn't it? [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Coal Plant Defeated in Arizona

  Published: September 3, 2007, 12:58 pm

  Tags: Arizona, Coal, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases

  Residents of Arizona raised such a stink over a new proposed coal-burning power plant that the developers have switched it to natural gas- a little... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• CO2: New technology would store carbon underground

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:42 pm

  Tags: Cambridge University, Technology, Statoil, Co2, Carbon Greenhouse Gases, Vattenfall, Rwe, Co2sink Project, Germany, Eon, China, Cameroon, Shell

  Even as the drive to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming picks up, a number of countries are increasingly turning to coal as a major source of energy. The push for wide-scale development of coal that is quickly gaining in China is also growing steadily in some parts of Europe and the United States, forcing governments and businesses

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• People vs. Bush: Ignoring Supreme Court in Permitting New Coal Plant

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Air Pollution, Sierra Club, Utah, Utes, Inversion, Coal, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases

  The new coal plant proposed for eastern Utah got approved with no environmental curbs despite the U.S. Supreme Court's upholding of greenhouse gas... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• China Pollution Improves Bush Example; Lying But At Least Pretending to Care

  Published: September 6, 2007, 11:04 am

  Tags: Cheney, Bush, Air Pollution, China, Climate Change, Big Oil, Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Environment

  The good news is China knows what it's doing is wrong. They've put standards in place and tell everyone they're enforcing them. The bad news is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• University of Utah Video Gets Students on TRAX

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Air Pollution, Utah, Inversion, Salt Lake City, Trax, Greenhouse Gases, Green Cities

  Being in web video, I love seeing how effective it can be used in telling a story, putting out valuable information and reaching the intended... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• ATVs Booted From Ancient Canyon; Time to Increase Restrictions

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:16 pm

  Tags: Nature, Utah, Atv, Greenhouse Gases

  All I can say is: it's a start. ATVs, OHVs- however you spell it, they're nothing but C-R-A-P. This case in Utah points out how destructive these... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• TEXAS: Nuclear Reactor Presents Huge Implications For NRG Energy

  Published: September 26, 2007, 10:58 pm

  Tags: Greenhouse Gases, Constellation Energy Group, Usa, Nuclear Energy, Nrg Energy Inc, Us Nuclear Industry, Nuclear Reactor, Dominion Group, Texas

  wake of rising concerns over greenhouse gases, surging energy demand and improving favorable economics of nuclear energy generation. Even with the significant capital costs required, nuclear energy's average of 1.72 cents/kWh edges out the 2.37 and 6.75 cents required for coal and natural gas facilities, respectively.NRG estimates the plant to be

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• SHIPPING POLLUTION "FAR MORE DAMAGING THAN FLYING"

  Published: October 12, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: California, Atmosphere, Bunker Refining Grade, Business, Carbon, Carbon Offset, Cars, Coal, Environment, Environmentally, Government, Greenhouse, Greenhouse Gases, Nitrogen, Oil, Oxide, Planet, Pollution, Refining, Shipping, Ships, Working

  In Europe the talk is all about carbon footprint taking responsibility for ones own pollution. read more

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• Senate Panel Advances Bill to Cut Greenhouse Gases

  Published: December 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Advances, Bill, Cut, Greenhouse, Gases, John Warner, United States, U S Republican Party, Joseph Lieberman, U S Senate Committee On Environment And Public Works

  Democrats turned back repeated efforts by Republican senators to soften the economic impact of a global warming bill before advancing it out of a Senate committee yesterday.

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• Australia Starts to Bury Greenhouse Gases

  Published: April 2, 2008, 3:45 pm

  Tags: World, Greenhouse Gases

  Australia's first large underground carbon storage facility has opened in the southern state of Victoria. The geo-sequestration plant will capture carbon dioxide from a power station and store it two kilometers beneath the surface. Researchers think the pilot program will help Australia make deep cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions.

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• Summary of the Summary: A Breakdown of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

  Published: November 19, 2007, 7:15 pm

  Tags: Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Summary For Policymakers Of The Synthesis Report Of The Ipcc Fourth Assessment Report, Ipcc

  in 3) aerosols and, yes, 4) greenhouse gases.Anyone who doubts that industrialized human activities are causing global warming need only consider this:Between 1970 and 2004, human-produced greenhouse gas emissions rose by 70%! The biggest climate change offender -- carbon dioxide (CO2) -- went up 80% during that same time period.Now let's put

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• Reuters: What happened to Global Warming?

  Published: May 16, 2008, 12:36 pm

  Tags: Climate, Critical Thinking, Current Events, Environment, Global Warming, Media, Media Bias, News, Alarmist, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Reuters

  Gerard Wynn, over at Reuters asks “What happened to Global Warming?” It’s not just that it’s disappeared from media headlines this year - shoved off by the credit crunch and natural disasters, for example. It can’t be ignored that 2007 came and went as another very warm year - the 7th hottest on record since 1850 [...]

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• A Carbon Diet Needs a Healthy Serving of Nuclear Energy

  Published: May 18, 2008, 3:30 am

  Tags: Column2 02, Positioning, Environment, Science Amp Amp Technology, Us News, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Electricity, Energy, Gas, Green, Greenhouse Gases, Nuclear, Oil

  Eliminating our dependence on oil and coal is only part of the clean energy equation. It's time that the United States gets serious about nuclear power.

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