U.S. Climate Policy Eyed
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The White House's focus on technology to address global warming contrasts sharply with the course embraced by most of America's allies.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 11 -- U.S. officials at U.N. climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific U.S. commitments until a new administra...
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The Senate Commerce Committee hears testimony on the connection between greenhouse gases and climate changes. Many legislators want to take action, but the best course remains unclear. Michael Grebb reports from Washington.
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When President Bush mentioned the words "climate change" for the first time in a State of the Union address last year, it signaled that the climate had indeed changed for several issues that were coalescing to force a White House and a Congress of different parties to work together.
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WASHINGTON -- Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate...
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Two sets of Americans have come here to talk global warming: the United States, opposed to controls on carbon emissions, and a bloc of united states, from Maine to Delaware, that plan to impose them.
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A major climate change report prompts calls for urgent action, but the US rejects controls on emissions.
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The Bush administration would like to throw cold water on the idea of doing anything substantive about global warming. But the heat should be on the president until the United States limits emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is resisting calls from the European Union and developing nations to commit to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming, threatening progress on a new accord to fight climate change.
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A new report on global warming&#39;s impacts on Oregon and the rest of the Northwest may fall short of Hollywood blockbuster standards, but it demonstrates the need for a strong, cohesive national strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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An international report giving greater certainty to global warming will shift the debate in Congress from what's causing climate change to the economics of who will pay to confront it.
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BALI, Indonesia  -- The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global warming gases, the German environment minister said.
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Bush administration officials set out Friday to convince the world it can cool the Earth with voluntary "processes," more cooperation and fewer barriers to trade among the U.S., China and other major polluters, contrary to the U.N.'s mandatory approach to global warming.
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BROOKLIN, Canada, Dec 18 (IPS) - This was the year that most people in the U.S. and  Canada began to take climate change seriously and express hope  that their governments would take action to reduce emissions --  but it is unclear if they will take action themselves.
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Hopes of concrete US commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. are hit
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SEATTLE -- As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move.