US: Global Warming Activists Claim Big Victory
The season of corporate shareholder meetings is just beginning, but already global warming activists have claimed a major victory in the first of a series of 14 anticipated fights with some of the...
View ArticleBechtel: Oil, Gas and Mining
Bechtel has also played a major role in construction for the fossil fuel economy and the mining industry. Today as we lurch into a world where climate change has become a daily reality because of our...
View ArticleUSA: White House Joins Corporate Houses
The Bush administrations agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore increasingly shrill alarms from an overstressed natural world.
View ArticleUSA: EPA Downplayed Climate Change in Environmental Challenges Report
The Environmental Protection Agency scrapped a detailed assessment of climate change from an upcoming report on the state of the environment after the White House directed major changes and deletions...
View ArticleWorld: Extreme Weather Prompts Global Warming Alert
In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire.
View ArticleNew Report: Top Greenhouse Gas Emitters Not Diclosing, Acting of Financial...
Most of Americas biggest carbon dioxide-emitting companies including ChevronTexaco (CVX), ExxonMobil (XOM), General Electric (GE), Southern Company (SO), and Xcel Energy (XEL) are not adequately...
View ArticleAlaska: Warming is Disturbing Preview of What's to Come, Scientists Say
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska is melting.Glaciers are receding. Permafrost is thawing. Roads are collapsing. Forests are dying. Villages are being forced to move, and animals are being forced to seek new...
View ArticleUSA: Environmental Groups Critique Choice of New EPA Head
Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, a Republican who favors strengthening the power of states over environmental regulation, has been chosen by President George W. Bush to be administrator of the U.S....
View ArticleRussia: Island to Be Turned into Japan's Energy Hub
It will be the largest energy project in the world, but ecologists fear that a huge pipeline and three drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, which borders Japan, may spell...
View ArticleWORLD: Forest Carbon Projects Under Scrutiny
An agreement allowing companies to grow trees as an alternative to curbing their use of fossil fuels is becoming one of the most contentious issues in the run-up to next month's Milan conference on...
View ArticleUK: Oil Firms Fund Campaign to Deny Climate Change
Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry such as ExxonMobil are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading...
View ArticleRUSSIA: In Russia, Pollution Is Good for Business
One of the paradoxes of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change is that companies in Russia and other Eastern European countries, which are among the world's largest producers of greenhouse gases, are...
View ArticleBRUSSELS:Europe Moves to Make Big Polluters Pay for Emissions
Europe moves towards making significant changes to its emissions-trading system that could force large polluters to pay for most, if not all, permits to produce climate-changing gases.
View ArticleIndigenous Struggle in Ecuador Becomes a "Cause Beyond Control"
Ecuador's government recently ruled indigenous opposition to Amazon oil development a "cause beyond control." That leaves the companies free to pull out. It could also be an excuse to step up repression.
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