mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 23, 2011, 12:46 pm
“This is an early Christmas present for all Americans. It restores the freedom, at least temporarily, for you to choose the light bulbs you want to illuminate your home,” Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said in a statement after the House voted Friday. (The Senate followed on Saturday.) Barton said th...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 22, 2011, 10:27 am
Coming into 2011, a big question was how far Congress would go (and how far the administration would go along) in slowing or stopping action by the EPA and other federal agencies. While the House repeatedly approved anti-environment and anti-climate measures, those efforts did not make it through th...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Jun 18, 2010, 1:56 pm
Even low-level radioactive waste is a growing problem, with few licensed repositories to dispose of it. The problem dates from the early 1980s, when Congress said that the federal government would take care of high-level waste, like spent fuel from nuclear power plants, but that the states would hav...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Jan 13, 2010, 1:04 am
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
“In terms of border adjustments, I’m against it,” De Gucht told lawmakers in response to a question during a European parliamentary confirmation hearing in Brussels. “I don’t see that as the right approach — it’s one that will lead to lots of practical problems. “We’ve seen it in t...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
China is building four to six coal reserves each with capacity exceeding 20 million tonnes in order to address the problem of shortage of the fuel. Meanwhile, Chinese officials also called upon the leaders of developed nations to set ambitious carbon emission reduction goals. China is the world’s ...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Lack of credit supply in world markets, high unemployment rates and plummeting economic growth rates are keeping nations from taking bold measures to protect the environment, noted the Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren. Countries around the world are worried that financially intensive sc...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
India’s climate change envoy Shyam Saran has said that his country would like the United States to set ‘high-end’ emission reduction goals. Leading the Indian delegation into a gathering of largest polluting nations in Washington, Saran said that United States should aim to emissions targets b...
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mridul c. posted an article on Environment News and Analysis - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Only days after assuring the parliament that the government stands firm on the issue of opposing carbon emission targets, the Indian Environment and Forest Minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh announced in Beijing that his government could propose a target of reducing carbon emissions by 25 percent by 2030. I...
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