In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
The passage of the cap-and-trade bill through the committee stage has driven a wedge through the US environmental lobby, Fiona Harvey reports . Al Gore, former vicepresident and the unofficial leader of US greens, led a chorus of approval for the bill: "[It] represents a crucial step forward in addressing …
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, splitting largely along party lines, approved on Thursday the most ambitious energy and global warming legislation ever debated in Congress. The bill
The United States and European Union can pay to transfer to developing countries more than three-quarters of proposed carbon cuts over the next decade, draft and approved rules show. That reinforces how rich countries may agree in December to tough targets to beat climate change, under a new treaty to …
U.S. lawmakers pushing to include greater recognition for existing nuclear power in a national renewable energy standard failed to win new breaks for the industry when a U.S. congressional panel on Wednesday voted down an amendment to a controversial climate change bill. The sweeping bill, which seeks to cap greenhouse …
US Congress is making a hash of climate change proposal Whether a climate change bill emerges from the US Congress this year is much in doubt. Most Republicans still oppose the very idea of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Democrats are less than united in their commitment to it, once …
A leading US lawmaker behind efforts to tackle global warming predicted on Monday that his climate change bill will advance this week in the House of Representatives, even as Republicans warned it will ruin the ailing US economy. Representative Henry Waxman, the Democratic chair of the House Energy and Commerce …
Canada's oil sands emit more carbon dioxide than average crude so developers need a clearer picture of where greenhouse gas regulations are headed to find the best way to tap the giant resource, experts said. "The future regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and Canada will influence …
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have negotiated a climate change bill that would give industries most of the pollution emission permits they would need, according to documents obtained on Friday. President Barack Obama has made passage of a bill a top priority and wants demonstrable progress by December, …
Fifteen percent of emissions permits would be sold to polluters each year under a climate change bill moving through the US House of Representatives, according to a document circulated on Friday describing the legislation. The proceeds from those sales would be distributed to low-income and moderate-income families in the United …
Oil refiners would be given 2 percent of greenhouse gas emission permits under a proposed climate change bill that Democrats in the US House of Representatives are writing, according to a document describing that legislation. The proposal, which could still change in coming days, would also give local natural gas …
The real battle, over health care, is just beginning The first hundred days were busy, Barack Obama noted, but the pace would be just as hectic in the second hundred: they would be spent building
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday said they were working out final details of a climate change bill, as they announced new breaks for industry that they said would also minimize the potential impact on consumers' energy bills. "We have reached agreement on most key matters," said …
U.S. steel companies are not too happy with President Barack Obama these days. Industry executives say that in the last 15 years, they have cut their carbon dioxide emissions by one-third. But now, they think the president's cap-and-trade rules, currently in Congress, would punish them for doing what they feel …
Australia's government introduced carbon trade laws into parliament yesterday. But Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, faces a battle to get them passed into law and warned that he might need an early election if his reforms were blocked. The carbon-trade plan is a central plank of Australia's efforts to fight …
With a series of compromises on the stickiest issues behind them, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to approve far-reaching legislation on energy and global warming by the end of next week. Where it goes from there remains highly uncertain. President Obama on Wednesday praised the committee
Unless advocates of a cap-and-trade emissions scheme can design a credible and well-funded compensation mechanism to compensate the losers (including coal miners, heavy industrial workers, and their communities) carbon control policy risks becoming mired in the same controversy as trade liberalisation. In a report published this month, Michael Cragg of …
US electricity generators support compromises being reached by Democrats in the House of Representatives on proposed climate legislation, saying the changes would soften the impact on power bills. "It makes (the proposed bill) more reasonable and we've always said we would be willing to support a more reasonable cap-and-trade bill," …
Democrats in the US House of Representatives neared an agreement on a climate-change bill on Tuesday and said they expected to approve it soon. "Our goal is to finish this bill by the close of business next week on the House floor," Representative Edward Markey, chairman of a House Energy …
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday vowed to push for major changes to a climate change bill that could move through a key committee next week, including a proposal to count nuclear power as a clean energy alternative. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will try by …
The US Congress must pass a "strong" climate change bill before the global warming summit in Copenhagen this December if it is to have a chance of persuading China and India to sign up to a new treaty, says Bill Clinton. "First of all if we don't adopt a workable …
