Australia delays carbon emissions trading scheme by one year

Australia have announced that they are pushing back their planned carbon emissions trading scheme for one year as the global recession has made efforts like this just not possible within the current budget. This will mean that the date to begin would be July 2011. Prime...

EPA Moves to Ease Air Rules for Parks

"The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators...

Bali meeting should agree on post-Kyoto timetable: Merkel

"She said the UN Climate Conference starting in Bali on Monday needed to agree on a timetable so that negotiations on a follow-up agreement to Kyoto could be completed by the end of 2009. The Kyoto protocol that went into effect in 2005, requires industrial countries to...