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Republican elder statesmen propose carbon tax plan to limit carbon emissions

Feb 9, 2017

A group of senior Republicans, including former secretaries of state George Schultz and James Baker, are calling for plans to institute a national carbon tax to replace the Obama administration’s federal regula...

Open letter from California professors to Donald Trump calls for action on climate change

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Feb 2, 2017

Environment, Policy, Science

A new open letter to Donald Trump, from 2,300 professors from California public universities, calls on the President to take climate change more seriously. It asks the new administration to maintain the US comm...

2016 breaks surface temperature record for third year in a row

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Jan 22, 2017

Environment, Science

According to a report published last Wednesday, scientists have concluded that Earth reached its highest surface temperatures ever recorded in 2016. Temperatures beat a record set the year before, which in turn...

Firm uses captured CO2 to make baking soda, marking carbon capture breakthrough

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Jan 3, 2017

Environment, Innovation, Science

A company in southern India has made an important breakthrough in towards successful carbon capture technology. The plant in the port town of Tuticorin is using CO2 captured from its own coal-fueled boiler to m...

PM Turnbull says government will not pursue carbon tax, after mixed signals from minister

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Dec 12, 2016

Environment, Science, World

Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has publicly ruled out the idea of using a carbon tax or emissions trading to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He cited concerns about raising prices for consumers, sa...

Wildfires in Western US more widespread as a result of climate change, according to new study

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Dec 9, 2016

Environment, Science

A new study has found that climate change is responsible for doubling the area of the Western US affected by wildfires since the 1980s. The research comes after a year in which wildfires destroyed hundreds of h...

Researchers at MIT and the University of Toronto make breakthroughs toward turning harmful CO2 into clean fuel

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Nov 17, 2016

Environment, Innovation, Science

While debates in U.S. election focused on such issues as email servers and immigration phobia, critics have pointed out that the most important single issue faced by the global community was virtually ignored b...

Driverless bus in Helsinki shows limitations, but also promise for the future of public transport

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Nov 4, 2016

Environment, Science, World

Helsinki, Finland, is running a self-driving bus as part of an effort to reduce the use of cars. The city has been at the forefront of innovation in public transportation, and the self-driving bus project takes...

State Supreme Court orders Exxon to comply with subpoena in climate fraud investigation

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Oct 28, 2016

Business, Environment, Science

The New York State Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Exxon must comply with a subpoena issued as part of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s climate fraud probe, following up on allegations that Exxon l...

Scientists discover breakthrough method to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol fuel

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Oct 22, 2016

Environment, Innovation, Science

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee have inadvertently discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol, which can be used as fuel. This new method...

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