Archive for June 12th, 2009
SEJ’s guide to covering climate change
Posted by: Sara Shipley Hiles on June 12, 2009
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- Australia's coal addiction set in train 30 years ago.As the world battles to secure a low-carbon future, secret cabinet documents from 1979 show that before global warming was on the radar, Canberra acted to lock in Australia's coal-based energy future.
- Federal agencies may have to consider climate before they act.The Obama administration may issue an order that would expand the National Environmental Policy Act's scope to prevent global warming. The move could open up new avenues to challenge projects.
- California climate law faces opposition.Four years after California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed off on the nation’s farthest-reaching global-warming law, a campaign is heating up to keep it from taking effect.
- Senate looms as bigger hurdle after Copenhagen.As hard as it was to negotiate a deal in Denmark, Obama faces an even tougher time in Washington trying to convince the U.S. Senate to pass cap-and-trade legislation.
- Hospitals and prisons rank bottom in public buildings CO2 audit.An audit of emissions from hospitals, prisons, police offices and museums has laid bare the toll they are taking on the environment.
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