Citing Global Warming, Kansas Denies Plant Permit
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In what opponents say is a first, a Kansas regulator has turned down a permit for a large coal-fired power plant solely because of the global warming gases it would emit.
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Soaring energy costs and one of the worst droughts to grip Kansas in a century have led farmers to work hard to conserve water.
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By Anna Staatz  By Anna Staatz  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Kansas may have to purchase storage rights in three federal reservoirs to prevent water in them from being released to enhance navigation on the Missouri River.
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Science & environment: Chief green advisers say fight against climate change will be hindered by government decision
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The Bush administrationâs decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases was foreseeable.
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The state&#39;s Animal Health Commissioner, George Teagarden, says the inconclusive test for Mad Cow Disease didn&#39;t come from Kansas.
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 31--Grass seed farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie set their fields ablaze every summer, sending plumes of thick smoke into the skies. And the state of Idaho defends the controversial practice.
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The Supreme Court yesterday cautiously confronted for the first time the issue of global warming, hearing a challenge to the Bush administration's refusal to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases in new vehicles.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists' climate-change work.
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President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming, despite a fresh report from 300 scientists in the United States and seven other nations that shows Arctic temperatures are rising.
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By John Murawski, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 7--State regulators on Wednesday rejected a bid by environmentalist groups to bar Duke Energy from building a coal-burning power plant west of Charlotte.   The N.C.
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Monsanto, which pushed for lifting Brazil's ban on GM seeds, disputes claims that the new policy will harm the environment.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 16--State regulators on Friday rejected a bid by environmental groups to bar Duke Energy from building a coal-burning power plant west of Charlotte.   It was the second request from the groups rejected by the N.C. Utilities Commission.
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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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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - Biotech crop critics said they were asking for a permanent injunction to stop the planting of Monsanto Co.'s genetically modified alfalfa after failing to negotiate a settlement with U.S. regulators by a court-imposed deadline on Friday.
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Effort to fertilize oceans to limit warming, and make money, is canceled.