Industry officials are arriving in droves today to take part in what’s being pegged as the seminal global event on climate change. The place is expected to fill with representatives of traditional carbon-intensive industries, like oil and coal. But the first to set up their exhibit booths at the conference center in Copenhagen are largely
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“EPA’s action is a game-changing step in the fight against global warming. Coming during the Copenhagen climate summit, this decision sends a powerful message that our nation recognizes the threat of global warming. “We must move now — decisively and directly — against greenhouse gas pollution, forestalling catastrophic climate change. Now, EPA can begin the
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The documents on the climate change page of the Connecticut DEP website (see link below) comprise the draft 2009 Connecticut Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Update, as required by section 3(a) of Public Act 08-98, An Act Concerning Connecticut Global Warming Solutions.  The Public is invited to comment on this document and Public  comments will be
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The US government has declared that greenhouse gases threaten human health — a move that could allow the US Environmental Protection Agency to order cuts in emissions without the approval of Congress. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency was now “authorised and obligated to make reasonable efforts” to cut greenhouse gases. The news came
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Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Vigil Series begins today at Elm and Temple in New Haven. Find other vigils near where you live by visiting the site below. 350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis–the solutions that science and justice demand. Its mission
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The federal government is redrawing its maps that define flood zones, a move that could have a significant impact on the cost of flood insurance for homeowners and businesses. This summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency redrew flood maps for New London County using new topography data and updated computer models on how flooding occurs.
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ALBANY — The state has raised more than $180 million under a multi-state program intended to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. This week, the state held its fourth auction of carbon dioxide credits under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and received another $25.4 million to reach that total. via
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Even though the outlook is bleak for a legally binding agreement on climate change coming out of the 12-day meeting, the world’s two largest countries, China and India, nonetheless announced targets beforehand to slow their carbon emissions – after years of resisting such a step … “The world is passing us by,” said US Energy
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The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide, which could cause global temperatures to rise even faster than they have risen in past five decades, Yale geophysicist Jeffrey Park found in a recent study. Park, a professor of geology and geophysics and the director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, pooled 50 years of
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Paul Dobbins and Tollef Olson admit they still have a kink in their scheme to use seaweed to revolutionize American eating habits, clean the environment, lower the federal trade deficit and make themselves fabulously rich. Call it the yuck factor. Ocean Approved plans to expand production tenfold next year using underwater acreage it has leased
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In advance of Denmark summit, environment co-chair urges action In advance of this weekend’s climate change conference in Denmark, state Senator Ed Meyer (D-Guilford), the Senate Chairman of the Environment Committee, today urged the Obama administration to seek tough new greenhouse gas emission regulations that mirror those already adopted by Connecticut and other environmentally progressive
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Renewable-energy investment may climb to a record $200 billion worldwide next year as companies from Hong Kong’s CLP Holdings Ltd. to American Electric Power Co. start projects that don’t depend on a new climate-change treaty. via Copenhagen Failure Defied by $200 Billion in Green Investments – Bloomberg.com.

Throughout the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen from Dec. 7 to 18, 2009, houses of worship in New Haven will hold payer vigils in support of the world’s leaders who have come together to work out a systematic response to global warming.

The impact of state-level actions to reduce global warming pollution is significant on a global scale. The United States, long considered a laggard in addressing global warming, is poised to achieve substantial reductions in global warming pollution thanks to clean energy policies adopted over the past decade by state governments, according to a new report
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This is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets
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Students from EcoHouse, EcoHusky and EcoGarden gathered in front of the Student Union Theatre Wednesday to demonstrate against a presentation of the documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” by Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). “Not Evil Just Wrong” is the anti-”An Inconvenient Truth,” a film that “exposes the deceptions that experts, politicians, educators and the
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MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — -Kohl’s Department Stores has become the first retailer to announce a commitment to reach net zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as part of its ongoing partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leaders program. To achieve this goal of being carbon neutral, Kohl’s will continue to invest in projects
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Russia wants surplus carried over, but environmentalists call it counterproductive and unearned MOSCOW — Russia is on track to far exceed its targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto climate-change treaty, but its success could derail efforts to reach a new accord against global warming, according to officials and analysts following the negotiations. via
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Last week, the White House announced target emissions cuts in advance of the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen: a 17 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2005 levels by 2020. The president’s longer-term goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 83 percent by 2050. Meanwhile, as the waves made by climate scientists’ hacked
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