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U.S.-Canada carbon trading group eyes 2012 start

  
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A coalition of U.S. states and Canadian provinces that have banded together to cut greenhouse gases will launch their carbon cap and trade system in 2012, according to a draft plan released on Wednesday.
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Faroe whales show new pollutant spreads worldwide

  
OSLO (Reuters) - People who eat whale meat in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic have high levels of an industrial toxin in their blood in a worrying sign that the pollutant has spread worldwide, scientists said on Thursday.
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News of the 07/23/2008
    

California ports' pollution plan a big haul

  
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A short drive from the sandy beaches of Malibu rise two sprawling ports, where goods from around the world enter the United States before fanning out by road and rail to stores from coast to coast.
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News of the 07/22/2008
    

Drafty British companies waste $5 billion: survey

  
LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses are wasting 2.5 billion pounds ($4.99 billion) a year in energy bills swollen by inefficiencies such as drafty windows or leaving lights and computers on, the Carbon Trust said on Tuesday.
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About 20 percent of EU timber illegal or suspect: report

  
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nearly a fifth of wood imported into the European Union has been harvested illegally or comes from suspect sources, mostly in Russia, Indonesia and China, according to a report by environmental group WWF.
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News of the 07/21/2008
    

Gubernatorial candidates gather for first debate

  
Gov. Jim Douglas, under fire from his two major-party gubernatorial campaign opponents during a debate Sunday, said he had worked to protect the state's environment, but that he wanted to limit the role of government on food, energy and other issues.
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Climate report calls for green "New Deal"

  
LONDON (Reuters) - The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to tackle the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British think-tank said on Monday.
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Explorer aims to educate youth on the environment

  
After traveling around the Arctic Circle alone, walking across South America, venturing through African war zones and hiking deep into the Amazon , Borneo and Sumatra jungles, Mike Horn is ready to embark on his most ambitious project yet.
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Soil database to help map CO2 storage, food output

  
MILAN (Reuters) - New database of the world's soils will help better map agricultural output and storage and sequestration of heat trapping carbon dioxide (CO2), one of its creators, the United Nations' food agency FAO, said on Monday.
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News of the 07/20/2008
    

Olympic traffic crackdown begins in Beijing

  
Beijing started its most drastic pollution-control plan Sunday, restricting car use and limiting factory emissions in a last-minute push to clear smog-choked skies for the August Olympics.
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Wetlands could unleash "carbon bomb"

  
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
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News of the 07/19/2008
    

Gore pushes environment with activist bloggers

  
Last year it was about the candidates. This year it's the climate. Former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance Saturday at the Netroots Nation conference, a gathering of nearly 2,000 left-leaning bloggers and political organizers. He urged the activists to mobilize for global climate protection by amplifying his call to generate all the nation's electricity from renewable sources ...
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News of the 07/18/2008
    

U.S. carbon initiative nets key Canadian province

  
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The province of Ontario, Canada's industrial heartland, will join the Western Climate Initiative, a planned U.S.-based regional carbon credit trading pact aimed at curbing global warming.
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News of the 07/17/2008
    

Pope: World's natural resources being squandered

  
Pope Benedict XVI says the world's natural resources are being squandered by "insatiable" consumption and urges people to care more for the environment.
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Fuel cell cars still 15 years away at best: study

  
DETROIT (Reuters) - Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles are still 15 years away from becoming a viable business for automakers even if they overcome remaining technical hurdles and the U.S. government provides massive subsidies, a government-funded report said on Thursday.
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Climate change puts U.S. way of life at risk: EPA

  
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under fire for apparently discounting the impact of climate change, on Thursday said global warming poses real risk to human health and the American way of life.
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