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Schwarzenneger’s Post-Governor Plan: Fight Climate Change

Photo: the Guardian Arnold Schwarzenegger will not likely be remembered as California’s most beloved governor — he’s leaving office with his approval rating in the 20 percent range. But history may be kinder to his legacy on climate — addressing global warming eventually became his trademark issue with the passage of the state’s solid climate law AB 32, that requires California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Defending the law from Texas oil companies, who attempted to shut it down w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Push Begins for 60 MPG Fuel Economy Standard by 2025

Photo via the Telegraph It’s time to get creative. Climate legislation, as we all know, is kaput. Hope is dim for any kind of greenhouse gas limiting policy to emerge over the next year — or years, more likely. So climate activists and green groups are starting to think outside the box for how to cut carbon in large scale, meaningful ways. One promising option that has arisen is to push for more stringent fuel economy standards — a coalition of environmental groups has just launched a campaign urging the Obama ad… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Seasonal Shifts Could Be Confusing Bees

Image credit: ruurmo /Flickr Everything from fungus to parasites, pesticides to disease, pollution to habitat loss, has been blamed for the startling—often sudden— declines in bee populations worldwide… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If Obama Had Chosen Energy Over Health Care …

Photo via MSNBC’s Cosmic Blog It’s an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform? Would we now be looking at a freshly passed law designed to map out the future of the American energy economy and to stimulate job growth in sustainable sectors — while curbing greenhouse gas pollution and ramping up renewables? Would Democrats have benefited from focusing on the economy i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russia’s Peatland Fires May Continue Burning Underground Through Winter

photo: praegerr via flickr Burning for some weeks now, the fires in Russia are not only causing Moscow’s daily death rate to double as smog engulfs the city, but are also emitting tons of greenhouse gas emissions as drained peatlands burn. What’s worse,

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Biochar Alone Could Offset 12% of All Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study

Through application to soil in farmer’s fields, biochar both can help increase soil fertility and store carbon emissions. Photo: Feral Arts via flickr. More new info on the potential of biochar to help combat climate change: A study in the journal Nature Communications shows that up to 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans could be offset by p… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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And the Senate Climate Bill Gets Weaker Still . . .

As expected, the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill has grown weaker still, relinquishing an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions and instead targeting only the utility sector for greenhouse gas reductions starting in 2013. And that’s still apparently too controversial for this Senate, as the conventional wisdom says not even a utility-only bill can get enough votes to pass. So here’s what evidently remains of the mess that’s left on the table in terms of clean energy and climate legislation this year: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Copenhagen ends with walks outs, mayhem, and disappointment

With only hours left in the Copenhagen climate treaty talks we have obtained an early version of the final agreement' draft text. President Obama's speech wrapped up a few minutes ago with nothing new announced. But as long as this session continues there remains hope that world leaders can deliver a fair, ambitious and legally binding deal.

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WTF Iran? Twitter hacked and oil well seized

Either Iran just got real aggressive in the last 24 hours or someone is out to make the Islamic Republic look bad. Real bad. First, last night, Twitter goes down

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Breaking: LEAKED final draft of Copenhagen treaty declaration

With only hours left in the Copenhagen climate treaty talks we have obtained an early version of the final agreement' draft text. President Obama's speech wrapped up a few minutes ago with nothing new announced.

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