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Climate Change Threatens Migratory Birds

Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors.

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CEQ Guidance Memo on Dealing with GHG Emissions under NEPA

On February 18th, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued the attached draft memorandum for public comment.

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Arizona backs out of Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program

Citing financial worries, the State of Arizona has backed out of a broad regional effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the West through a cap-and-trade system.

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Obama announces government greenhouse gas emissions targets

President Obama set greenhouse gas emissions targets for the federal government, announcing Friday that it would aim to reduce its emissions by 28 percent in 2020.

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Past Decade Warmest on Record!

The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show.

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EPA finds that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare fo current and future generations

Here's an article from Time detailing the implications of CO2 and other greenhouse gases being detrimental to humans.

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CLIMATE: DOE to play 'deep role' in cap and trade -- Chu (04/07/2009)

The Energy Department will play a vital role in crafting a cap-and-trade policy and helping achieve steep greenhouse gas reductions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today.

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CLIMATE: Obama to turn next to Supreme Court ruling, endangerment finding (01/27/2009)

In his first big White House announcement on global warming, President Barack Obama focused yesterday on two issues lingering from the Bush administration: fuel economy and California's bid to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.

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Ice shelf hangs by a thread

Wed. Jan. 21, 9:50AM ET - An Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent.

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TRANSITION: DOE nominee stresses climate change as confirmation begins (01/13/2009)

Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate physicist tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the Energy Department, opened his Senate confirmation hearing today by warning of dire consequences of unchecked global warming.

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Obama energy pick says will fight global warming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global warming threatens the future and the incoming Obama administration will seek a cap-and-trade system to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Steven Chu, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be U.S. energy secretary, told lawmakers

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Purdue Releases Video of US Carbon Dioxide Pollution

Purdue University Releases Video Animation of U. S. Carbon Dioxide Pollution

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Accelerating Rapidly

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels stood at a record 8.38 gigatons of carbon (GtC) in 2006, 20 percent above the level in 2000. Emissions grew 3.1 percent a year between 2000 and 2006, more than twice the rate of growth

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Where Global Warming Begins

Watch Video Animations of U.S. Carbon Dioxide Pollution

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Antarctic ice shelf breaking up

Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun disintegrating under the effects of global warming. The collapse of a substantial section of the shelf was triggered on 28 February when an iceberg measuring 41km by 2.4km broke off its southwestern front

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Council on Environmental Quality Record of Progress for a Clean, Healthier Future

“My Administration’s climate change policy will be science-based, encourage research breakthroughs that lead to technological innovation, and take advantage of the power of markets. It will encourage global participation and will pursue actions

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