07/29/2010
29th July 2010
"the Senate is left to vote on an anemic energy bill of such remarkably limited scope that it could have been passed during the Bush era."
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Action on carbon is down the drain 07/29/2010
29th July 2010 "No matter, smiled Barack Obama and other leaders through clenched teeth: this would not stop the US and its partners moving forward with plans of their own. Oh, really? The whole enterprise, from top to bottom, has now collapsed" |
Research says climate change undeniable 07/29/2010
29th July 2010 "NOAA study draws on up to 11 different indicators of climate, and found that each one pointed to a world that was warming owing to the influence of greenhouse gases" |
Shell chief defends deep-water drilling 07/29/2010
29th July 2010 "Peter Voser, Shell chief executive, said BP’s Gulf of Mexico deep-water oil spill was a tragedy but declared that Shell did not as yet need to change the way it operated, pending the results of the accident investigation" |
Storm forces ships off spill site 07/23/2010
23rd July 2010 "Dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico have been ordered to leave the site of the BP oil spill by the US government as Tropical Storm Bonnie gathers pace." Forecasters say the tropical sotrm could reach the edge of the spill by early Saturday. The BBC reports that rilling on a relief well has already been suspended for up to two weeks: |
Read Ekklesia's interview with Chris Huhne 07/19/2010
15th July 2010 |
Europe needs to reduce emissions by 30% 07/15/2010
14th July 2010 "If we stick to a 20 per cent cut, Europe is likely to lose the race to compete in the low-carbon world to countries such as China, Japan or the US – all of which are looking to create a more attractive environment for low-carbon investment." Chris Huhne, Norbert Röttgen and Jean-Louis Borloo advocate the EU moving to a higher carbon-cut target in the FT: |
27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in Gulf of Mexico ignored by government, industry 07/12/2010
12th July 2010 "More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one -- not industry, not government -- is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows." Read the full Associated Press article at nola.com: |
Earliest evidence of pet tortoise in Britain 07/12/2010
9th of July 2010: Researchers have found the earliest archaeological evidence of a tortoise being kept as a family pet in Britain, at a castle in Staffordshire. |
The clean-up can "cause far more damage than the oil itself" 07/01/2010
29th of June 2010 UK scientists at odds with US over effects of oil spill |
