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National Geographic's Terry Garcia discusses the factors contributing to the United States' last place ranking. (OnPoint, 05/12/2008)
NRDC's Dan Lashof discusses the competing economic reports on the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. (OnPoint, 05/06/2008)
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben says global warming may not be solvable, but he urges strong action. (OnPoint, 05/01/2008)
This section of the climate change special report contains all of the latest stories from E&E. Click here to view headlines.
E&E Daily analyzed the positions of the 100 senators expected to debate the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. Updated as the debate unfolds. Click here to download the chart.
An archive of primary source material relating to domestic climate change policy. Click here to go to Key Documents.
The Proposed Legislation Comparison Chart collects all current climate legislation being debated in Congress. Click here (Updated Jan. 16, 2008)
The Global Warming Court Cases Tracking Chart compares nine major pieces of litigation pending or recently decided by the courts. Click here (Updated Aug. 6, 2007)
Greenwire senior reporter Darren Samuelsohn explores "The Stabilization Wedges" -- a concept adopted by a growing number of politicians, teachers, lawyers, lobbyists and environmentalists to articulate climate strategies. Click here to view the report.
Some of the world's largest biotechnology companies have filed hundreds of patents on "climate ready" gene-altered crops, hoping to dominate a market expected to emerge as farmers respond to environmental stresses caused by global warming, an advocacy group for subsistence farmers said in a report today.
BP PLC has axed plans to build a carbon capture and storage plant in Australia.
Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton swung back at Republican rival John McCain's global warming plans today, saying the presumptive GOP nominee hasn't lived up to his own claims as an environmental champion and wouldn't do enough to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, will try to draw sharp contrasts today between himself and President Bush on global warming policy, by calling for a cap-and-trade emissions bill at home and more engagement with China and India in international climate negotiations.
Scientists plan to pump 1 million tons of carbon dioxide into a geological formation 1 mile beneath the surface of Kern County, Calif., near Bakersfield.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Friday he will support climate change legislation expected on the Senate floor next month.
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita stranded about one-fifth of the yearly oil refining output in the Gulf of Mexico, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will examine tomorrow how climate change may affect U.S. energy infrastructure and how future projects are incorporating these dangers.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, vowed today that environmental issues -- climate change in particular -- would be top priorities in his administration.
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