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Blowout Could Spill 58 Million Gallons in Arctic

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The federal agency overseeing offshore drilling in Alaska says the worst-case scenario for a blowout in the Chukchi Sea lease could result in a spill of more than 58 million gallons of oil into Arctic waters. That's about a quarter of the Deepwater Horizon spill, which put 206 million gallons of oil...

Obama Says He Wants Oil Producers to Boost Output

WASHINGTON -- As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy. "We are in a lot of...

Greenpeace: Apple is the Least Eco-Friendly Tech Company [VIDEO]

Obama Pumps Plan to Develop Renewable Energy

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. "That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil" in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. Obama raises the...

Obama Says New Task Force Will Examine Gas Prices

LOS ANGELES -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to "root out" cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline's surge to $4 a gallon. "We are going to make sure that no one is taking...

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Cutting Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Saving Our Climate On a Budget

A common concern about taking action against climate change is the idea that government mandates will muck up the works : hamper business, create bureaucracy and destroy the economy.

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Santorum Rails Against The 'Hoax Of Global Warming'

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum targeted primary rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on Tuesday for allegedly buying into the "bogus" science of man-made climate change, while proudly declaring that he himself had never believed in the "hoax of global warming."

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Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark.

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EU Carbon Tax: China Bars Its Airlines From Paying Up

China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.

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Astrid Caldas: Whatever Happened to "We Agree to Disagree"?

I am going to piggyback on the WSJ debacle, namely the op-ed signed by 16 scientists stating there was "no need to panic over global warming", and the response letter signed by climate scientists, which states that the op-ed was the "climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology" -- since there were various...

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02/09/12 Inhofe: Only one candidate addresses the four major... Source: KNUS 710 - Denver CO Yesterday I had the chance to spend some time with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the conservative stalwart who has spent the last several years trying to fight off attempts from members of both parties to impose a ruinous cap-and-trade system to control energy production and usage in the US.
02/09/12 PHL climate change initiatives to get â¬3M aid from... Source: GMA The German government is providing a â¬3-million grant to the Philippines in aid of the country's climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, according to Mary Ann Sering, Climate Change Commission vice-chairperson.
02/08/12 Cutting Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Saving Our Climate On a... Source: The Huffington Post A common concern about taking action against climate change is the idea that government mandates will muck up the works : hamper business, create bureaucracy and destroy the economy.
02/08/12 Reduce Global Warming and Save Taxpayers Billions -... Source: PRWeb Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) February 08, 2012 Imagine eliminating the total annual carbon dioxide emissions of Japan, or the combined emissions of the United Kingdom and Canada.
02/07/12 Santorum Rails Against The 'Hoax Of Global Warming' Source: The Huffington Post GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum targeted primary rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on Tuesday for allegedly buying into the "bogus" science of man-made climate change, while proudly declaring that he himself had never believed in the "hoax of global warming."

Background on Environment

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements.

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