Texas is biggest carbon polluter
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Everything's big in Texas Â big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state's big carbon footprint, too. Texans' fondness for large, manly vehicles has helped make the Lone Star State the biggest carbon polluter in the nation.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health...
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German scientists have activated CO2 by using graphitic carbon nitride as a catalyst, moving science closer to artificial photosynthesis.  The achievement was reported by a team led by Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.
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Emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel burned in the United States dropped 1.3 percent in 2006 compared with an all-time peak reached the year before.
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Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show.
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DALLAS -- Shareholders of TXU Corp. approved the sale of the largest power generator in Texas for $32 billion on Friday in one of the largest private buyouts ever.
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Exxonâs profit of $39.5 billion broke the record it set last year for the largest profit ever by an American company.
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By Ian Hoffman; Janis Mara  BERKELEY -- Energy giant BP LLC and the governors of California and Illinois on Thursday launched the world's first concerted effort here to use biology for producing fuels and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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By The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 4--California emerged last week as the leading state in the nation  to address greenhouse gas emissions with legislative approval of caps on  carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Gov.
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TXU, the largest energy provider in Texas, agreed last night to a $45 billion buyout that would not only be the largest private-equity deal in history but would also feature an unusual twist: The buyers have promised environmental groups they would cancel a slew of coal-fired power plants on the firm's drawing boards....
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has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters, a long-delayed government report shows. up to 30 percent of the planet&#39;s animal and plant species.
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LUFKIN, TEXAS - A 1.8-metre-long piece of the space shuttle Columbia was recently found in Texas, according to NASA. The shuttle broke up over the state on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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China has overtaken the US as the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.
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As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top of the world.
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The world&#39;s two biggest polluters, the US and China, will have an unprecedented chance to thrash out action on climate change at an upcoming summit in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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China has overtaken the United States  as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas,  because of surging energy use amid an economic boom, a Dutch  government-funded agency said on Wednesday.
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American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more tons of carbon dioxide per person than vegetarians every year.