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Keystone pipeline protestors to rally at White House
Environmental groups will step up the pressure on Barack Obama to act on climate change in his second term, with a rally Sunday at the White House against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Activists are pressing Obama to deliver early on his promise – renewed at his first White…
Climate change cost much larger than expected, prize-winning economist says
MADRID – British economist Nicholas Stern said the price of fighting climate change is now higher than he estimated in a 2006 study that earned him a 400,000-euro (530,000) Spanish award on Friday. Stern won the BBVA Foundation award for measuring the economic cost of climate change, notably in his…
Group: Climate bill could mean 540,000 new jobs per year
WASHINGTON  New rules to cap US carbon emissions and promote clean energy could create as many as 540,000 US jobs a year, a green group claimed Tuesday, as the BP oil spill fueled debate over reform. With the massive Gulf of Mexico slick pushing energy reform to the top…
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climate change deniers are ‘unpatriotic’
Frozen water fell from the sky today, therefore thousands of scientists the world over are liars. Just go with it. That’s the narrative coming from Fox News in their coverage of the heavy snow blanketing the eastern coast of the United States this winter. Thankfully, there’s Bill Nye the Science…
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