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...been two years since the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out the definitive case that human beings were causing global warming, and two decades since NASA scientist James Hansen first told Congress of the threat of rising CO2 emissions. So, why has it taken this long for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to announce that greenhouse gases endanger human health? Change can be slow in Washington...
...case that man-made global warming poses a threat to human welfare. (Reporters found out about the EPA decision the following Monday, after it was posted on a government website.) The finding is a response to an April 2007 Supreme Court decision ordering the EPA to figure out how CO2 from cars should be regulated under the Clean...
...worst auto market since World War II," says Julie Becker of the Alliance For Automobile Manufacturers, representing both foreign and domestic nameplates. Adds Eric Fedewa, vice president at CSM Worldwide, a forecasting firm based in Northville, Mi.: "Our analysis suggests that allowing California and other states to regulate CO2 emissions, and thus fuel economy, will further damage companies that are struggling, like GM, Ford and Chrysler, and much of their supply base, and potentially destabilize relatively healthy companies like Toyota and Nissan." Asian and European carmakers typically enjoy better fuel economy than the Big Three, but they fear the California...
...trade" initiative, which is designed to curb both the use of energy and greenhouse-gas emissions across the entire economy. For carmakers, such legislation would be mostly neutral because they earn credit for making electric vehicles and could spend it on cars that emit too much CO2. GM now notes that one-third of the Cadillac Escalades it sell are hybrids, so it would have plenty of currency. Of course, at this point Detroit is hoping for anything that doesn't have California's fingerprints all over...
...prospects of effective legislation to come out of Copenhagen. Yet clean energy figured prominently in Obama’s stimulus package, renewing hope among many that American initiative on global warming might galvanize the world’s other largest polluters to act decisively to cut down on CO2 emissions. As the industrial power of the 21st century, China recognizes that segueing into more environmentally sustainable growth is not only crucial to its internal development but also has great potential of becoming a major export market...