US CO2 emissions 'violate rights'
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A delegation of Inuit travel to Washington to argue that the nation's climate policy violates human rights.
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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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EXETER, England  - Britain, arguing that climate  change is now unstoppable, urged the United States on Tuesday  to sign up to life-saving cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as  environmentalists warned of approaching Armageddon.
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Many US businesses are already introducing greenhouse gas reduction programs despite their government&#39;s failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
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A report from the world's top climate scientists concluding the world is in for centuries of manmade warming put pressure Friday on the Bush administration to reverse the growing U.S. share of gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
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US criticised by Germany and China, but minister says emissions wrangle 'should not overshadow progress'
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As newspaper readers, you are probably becoming familiar with the term "offsets." Environmentalists, loath to add noxious carbon gases into the atmosphere, offset their fossil fuel consumption by investing in renewable energy sources.
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US import limits on cotton trousers made in China would violate free trade principles, Chinese textile exporters told state media Monday.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (01/10/04) - The US administration said on Thursday that it was working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, on its own, reiterating its opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, which the Russian government approved
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The Bush administration's rejection of state efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions touched off a flurry of counterattacks Thursday. Democrats in Congress launched an investigation. Governors led by California's Arnold Schwarzenegger said they would sue, and environmental groups demanded to see the government's rationale for its decision.
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Most Americans blame emissions from cars and industrial plants as the primary cause of global warming and believe the United States should reduce levels even if other countries don't, a survey shows.
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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 United States accused the European  Union on Wednesday of violating a newly signed &quot;open skies&quot;  aviation agreement by proposing to include international  airlines in the EU emissions trading scheme from 2012.
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The United States is lining up with China, India and the world's other biggest polluters in opposition to mandatory cuts in Earth-warming greenhouse gases sought by the United Nations and European countries.
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The US defends its decision not to sign up to the Kyoto climate change treaty with an attack on Europe's record.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa A NASA scientist has charged that the Bush administration is subverting science and misleading the public by trying to suppress or alter evidence on the dangers of global warming.
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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.