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Even as Congress belatedly tackles legislation that would cut U.S. carbon emissions and international negotiators bickered over a global climate deal in Bonn, Germany, a new report by several federal agencies underscores the truths that too often risk getting lost in politics: global warming is real, it's happening now, and if we don't act soon, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic. (Read "The Human Cost of Climate Change...
...tradable carbon credits, 15% would be auctioned off, the rest donated to businesses like cement and steel plants to soften the bill's economic impact...
...Nobel laureate in physics and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been charged with an even greater calling. As the nation’s 12th secretary of energy, Chu has committed himself to battling climate change by reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels, lowering carbon emissions, and finding immediate savings in energy efficiency—not merely “low-hanging fruit,” but “fruit lying on the ground,” whose simple implementation could radically conserve resources, he said...
...Harvard’s graduate schools in today’s 358th Commencement exercises. U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will deliver the keynote address. University officials announced in April that Chu would be speaker, highlighting his commitment to pursuing alternative energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and in his career as an academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post in January. He has served as head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
...Committee has limited its usage of paper, mobilizing e-mail and Facebook. The Committee even plans to follow up with their classmates in the hopes that they will change their habits based on what they learned at the reunion to offset the reunion’s usage of carbon dioxide by next year...