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CO2 Hits New High: Living In a League Where Batting 400 Is Not Good
Carbon dioxide concentrations have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in at least three million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced yesterday. That’s 40 percent more than the CO2 level in the air at...
European Commission Holds Firm, Rejects Daimler's Push to Block New Climate-Friendly Refrigerant
David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C.Good news today from Brussels, as the European Community holds firm and rejects last-minute pressure from by Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz, to block the introduction of...
Appeals Court Rejects Latest Attack on EPA Carbon Pollution Standards
The full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today rejected petitions from industry and state challengers to revisit a three-judge panel’s unanimous ruling last June, in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, upholding the Environmental...
We Saved the Ozone Layer. We Can Save the Climate.
Climate change is not the first planetary pollution crisis we have faced. That distinction belongs to the depletion of the earth’s protective ozone layer.This Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the world’s most successful...
Will China and India Help Curb HFCs, Or Stand in the Way?
I’ve just arrived in Bangkok, where negotiators from around the world will convene next week for the mid-year meeting of the Montreal Protocol, the world’s most successful environmental treaty. There they will look for common ground on...
Will the EPA's 'endangerment finding' stand?
Next week a rogues’ gallery of science-denying industry associations, right-wing advocacy groups, Tea Party backers, and ultra-conservative elected officials get their day in court – two days, actually – to challenge the Environmental Protection...
All I Want For Christmas Is …For Obama To Enact A Federal Climate Policy
Smithsonian Magazine has posted some unusual portraits of jolly Saint Nick and asked readers to vote for the Scariest Santa. Here’s my choice: ...
The Montreal Protocol - Proof That Countries Actually Can Cooperate
I just posted a report on the latest meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol, in Bali Indonesia. Let me add a personal reflection, as this is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend back home in America. Bali is a beautiful place, but...
Scariest Christmas, and Hope for a Cooler World
Smithsonian Magazine has posted some unusual portraits of jolly Saint Nick and asked readers to vote for the Scariest Santa. Here’s my choice: ...
Congressman Issa, Please Step Away from the Car Deal
Last Friday, President Obama announced another historic clean car agreement, supported by car companies, the auto workers union, environmental organizations, and states, that by 2025 will double new vehicles’ miles per gallon and cut their carbon...
Important Lessons To Learn From The CAFE Standard Compromise
Today President Obama will announce a third historic agreement to bring us cleaner cars and trucks, dramatically cutting carbon pollution and raising fuel economy for new cars, SUVs, minivans, and pick-ups built between 2017 and 2025. The...
How Many Congressmen Does It Take To Screw Up a Light Bulb?
Taking Care of the Medium Screw Base The BULB Act – for “Better Use of Light Bulbs” – is the latest bright idea from Rep. Joe Barton, the Texas Republican who last year apologized to BP during the Gulf oil spill and more recently questioned whether...
