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The first American has died after contracting the swine flu virus, Texas health officials said Tuesday. Officials did not identify the 33-year-old Texas woman but added that she suffered from an unnamed pre-existing medical condition. The health of the woman, a schoolteacher who lived in Harlingen, near the border with …
Energy scarcity has become more serious for the energy-deficient growing economies having insufficient resources to combat the environmental pollution, said former HEC chairman Dr Attaur Rehman in his inaugural speech as chief guest at a three-day international conference. Energy scarcity had become an issue in the world in addition to …
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration issued a draft rule on Tuesday aiming to cut greenhouse gasses emitted by biofuels but confirming his predecessor's target for production of corn-based ethanol. The rule seeks to make production of U.S. corn-based ethanol more efficient and increase production of advanced biofuels. Corn ethanol has …
Farmers will have three weeks to apply for $50 million in land stewardship funding to help pay the cost of converting to organic production, said the U.S. Agriculture Department on Tuesday. USDA said the special sign-up would run May 11-29 under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. It will be open …
China's Ministry of Finance is developing a study that explores the effects and impacts of levying environmental taxes to curb overall emissions of greenhouse gases. The report, which was described to the National Business Daily last week, could be out within a month, according to Su Ming, the deputy director …
The US is set to move closer to a car scrappage scheme with a provision to be included in a controversial climate change bill. The agreed scheme will offer rebates of $3,500- $4,500 on old vehicles traded in for more fuel-efficient new ones, according to one person familiar with the …
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian It could be considered an air traffic control system for birds who have flown perilously off course. A wind farm in southern Texas, situated on a flight path used by millions of birds each autumn and spring, is pioneering the use of radar technology to …
Closing schools once a student falls ill with swine flu may no longer be worth the toll on students and families, because the illness will soon be present almost everywhere in the country and few cases have been severe, federal health authorities said Monday.
Medical experts are calling the new influenza virus A(H1N1), but for many Mexicans it is simply a scarlet A. From Chile, where sports officials declined to host Mexican soccer teams, to China, where the authorities forced even healthy resident Mexicans and Mexican travelers into quarantine, Mexicans say they have been …
US energy companies rushing to exploit Pennsylvania's massive natural gas reserves have launched a public relations campaign to calm fears the bonanza is contaminating water with toxic chemicals. Drillers are holding public meetings to assure people the chemicals used to help extract gas from Pennsylvania's majority share of the Marcellus …
Negotiations in the US House of Representatives on how to cut industrial pollutants that cause global warming reach a critical stage this week as President Barack Obama huddles with key lawmakers on Tuesday and Republicans ready for a fight. A House Energy and Commerce panel hopes to fill in details …
President Barack Obama's administration will face a big test on fighting climate change when it seeks to determine if ethanol, the top US alternative motor fuel, cuts greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release a draft rule as early as this week that measures carbon dioxide …
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday for Shell Oil Co and units of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp and Union Pacific Corp in a dispute over environmental cleanup costs at a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, California. Shell, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, and the two railroads argued …
President Barack Obama will direct the heads of three US agencies to make the biofuels industry cleaner and encourage output of ethanol made from non-food crops, according to a draft memo obtained by Reuters on Monday. The Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be headed by the secretaries of the Environmental …
The US steel industry, hard hit by the global recession, urged Washington Monday to enforce trade laws against foreign dumping and warned THAT climate change legislation will further hurt domestic steelmakers. "We need to make Washington stand tough on trade laws," said James Wainscott, chairman, president and chief executive of …
The United States intends to work toward reducing emissions of potent greenhouse gases found in refrigerators and air conditioning systems but has not yet decided which international venue to use to advance the issue, US officials said on Monday. In a letter to a UN agency, the US State Department …
With swine flu now widespread in the United States, the World Health Organization reported Monday that the disease had widened globally, too, with 20 countries reporting 985 laboratory confirmed cases, compared with 18 countries reporting 898 confirmed cases on Sunday. Colombia and El Salvador were the latest countries to join …
Swine flu has become widespread in the United States, with 226 cases in 30 states and more expected to turn up in additional states in the next few days, federal health officials said Sunday.
The best way to track the spread of swine flu across the United States in the coming weeks may be to imagine it riding a dollar bill. The routes taken by millions of them are at the core of a computer model at Northwestern University that is predicting the epidemic
