State Task Force on Global Warming Hasn't Formed Yet
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By Blackwell Thomas  SPRINGFIELD - Four months after Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed an executive order creating a global warming task force, no members have been announced for the panel and no meetings have been held.
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A Bush administration program has not focused enough on the impact of warming on humans, the panel said.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Canadian scientists at an international symposium on climate change say a new report shows the Kyoto Protocol agreement on limiting fossil fuel emissions is not enough to slow the potentially disastrous warming of the planet.
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Many efforts to curb climate change pay little attention to conservation or the world's poor, a think-tank warns.
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 31--California's much-vaunted law restricting greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles won't make a dent in global warming, even if adopted worldwide, a group of automobile manufacturers declared Wednesday.
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Green lobbyists and several U.S.  cities hope a lawsuit against U.S. development agencies will  force the government to act on global warming, even though  President Bush has long insisted there's no scientific proof  linking human activity to warming.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from computers will be the aim of a new government taskforce.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Dec. 13--Because of federal funding restrictions, public meetings for a proposed 1,000-job nuclear fuel recycling plant here won't be held until at least the latter part of 2007.
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TOPEKA -- More than five months after the state environmental agency closed the public comment period on the proposed coal-fired power project in western Kansas, no decision's come yet on whether to allow it.
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By David RaniiNorth Carolina-based companies are leaders, not laggards, when it comes to responding to the business challenges posed by global warming, state Treasurer Richard Moore said. Moore, participating in a teleconference Tuesday morning in which 10 U.S.
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While much was said at the United Nations summit on global warming, the world is still a ways from taking concrete action
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At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new national energy policy, and the groups were...
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Australia is on track to meet targets set by the global Kyoto Treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions but will still not sign the pact because it ignores key areas of the fight against global warming in developing nations.
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After years of delays, a world plan  to fight global warming goes into force on Wednesday, feted by  its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an  economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia.
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By CHRIS MORRIS  BRUDENELL, P.E.I. (CP) - A coalition of environmental groups says Eastern Canadian provinces are lagging behind the New England states in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.  Canadian and U.S.
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Seven states have yet to participate in a federal program to buy antivirals for a potential influenza pandemic. Thirteen states do not have adequate plans to distribute vaccines and medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile.