Greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards

These energy policy initiatives created in collaboration with automakers have been moving along 'under the hood' for months. Today the EPA and DOT signed a joint final rule establishing greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fuel economy...

Commonwealth leaders back climate change fund

Commonwealth leaders have got behind a proposal from the UK and France to create a climate change fund that would see wealthier countries supporting poorer countires to combat global warming and climate change....

China's three biggest power firms emit more carbon than Britain,

"China's three biggest power firms produced more greenhouse gas emissions last year than the whole of Britain, according to a Greenpeace report published today. The group warned that inefficient plants and the...

Climate change 'more extreme' than feared

The WWF warns that climate change is happening faster and is more extreme than feared. The relatively recent 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is said by the agency to be already out...

The Front Page Issue: Global Warming

New Delhi:  At last, Global Warming is a front page issue for the first time.  Global concern about climate change has risen dramatically over the last six months and consumers increasingly expect their...

Split on nuclear power threatens agreement on global warming

"Divisions over nuclear power and renewable energy threatened to derail the EU's campaign to assume a global leadership role in the fight against climate change at the bloc's spring summit which began last night. Warning that "it is closer to five past midnight than five to...

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