12 December 2011 Last updated at 23:04 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Environment Minister Peter Kent: ”Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution for climate change” Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said [...]
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December 13, 2011
November 29, 2011
Canada makes Kyoto climate strike
28 November 2011 Last updated at 19:21 GMT By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News South African President Jacob Zuma: Climate change is “a matter of life and death” Canada will not make further cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, and may begin formally withdrawing next month. Though not a surprise, [...]
November 10, 2011
Polar bear declared ‘species of special concern’
November 10, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Polar bear declared ‘species of special concern’ 10 Nov 2011 The majestic but vulnerable polar bear has been declared a “species of special concern” under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. Environment Minister Peter Kent notes that Canada is home to two-thirds of the world’s polar bear population. The listing [...]
June 30, 2011
June 29, 2011
Kansas Abortion Doctors Sue to Block State Rules
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two doctors who perform abortions in Kansas filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block a new licensing law and regulations that abortion rights advocates fear will make Kansas the first state in the country without an abortion provider. Dr. Herbert Hodes and his daughter, Dr. Traci Nauser, argue that the new [...]
June 29, 2011
NM Blaze Threatening Nuclear Lab, Sparking Fires
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Firefighters worked through the night hoping to put out spot fires erupting ahead of a wildfire in the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory. “That’s the biggest threat we have right now to homes in the community,” Deputy Los Alamos County Fire [...]
June 28, 2011
Recession Forces States to Rethink Tourism Funding
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Like a business trying to sell a product, Washington state has for years attracted visitors by promoting stunning images of some of the nation’s most majestic scenery — from the snowcapped peaks of the Cascades to the rainforests and thundering waterfalls of the Olympic Peninsula. That marketing is now coming to [...]
June 28, 2011
NM Wildfire, Grows, Forcing Shutdown of Famed Los Alamos Nuke Lab
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A fast-moving wildfire forced officials at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory to close the site Monday while stirring memories of a devastating blaze more than a decade ago that destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in the area. More than 100 residents evacuated their homes as the fire swelled Monday to [...]
June 27, 2011
Cable TV Boxes Are Huge Energy Hogs
OK, so maybe the television antennas littering the housetops across urban and suburban landscapes were downright ugly — and perilous to install on steep roofs — not to mention that windstorms could leave them twisting in the wind like pretzels. And sure, the rabbit ears atop the TV were maddeningly stubborn about pulling in your [...]
June 27, 2011
Car Manufacturers May Face Fuel Economy Rules of 56.2 MPG
Automakers that sell vehicles in the United States may have to boost car and light truck fuel economy to an average 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025 under a White House proposal presented this week. In separate meetings with officials from Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., and Chrysler Group LLC on Wednesday, the Obama [...]
June 24, 2011
Jeb Bush: Public School Standards Inadequate
Current public school academic standards are too low, resulting in high-school diplomas that aren’t “worth the paper they are printed on,” former Florida governor Jeb Bush argued in an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal. Bush, along with co-author Joel Klein, former head of the New York City schools, called for the adoption of national [...]
June 23, 2011
Republican Lawmakers to Unveil Bill to Delay EPA Toxic Air Rule
House Republican lawmakers will offer legislation in August aimed at postponing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed air-toxics rule, said Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican. “We want to delay the final rule,” Whitfield, chairman of the House energy and power subcommittee, said today at a nuclear energy conference in Washington. American Electric Power Co., [...]
June 23, 2011
June 22, 2011
Three Freed after Being Trapped in Kentucky Mine
MIDDLESBORO, Ky. — A state spokesman says three maintenance workers have been freed and appear to be in good health after being trapped for 14 hours in a southeastern Kentucky mine. Dick Brown, spokesman for the state energy and environment cabinet, said the men were freed Monday about 8:30 p.m. The three, identified as Parnell [...]