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Canadian Minister Takes Tar Sands Lobbying to Europe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 6th, 2013
Reuters: A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea.
As part of a plan to cut greenhouse gases from transport fuel, the EU's executive commission has developed a Fuel Quality Directive that would single out oil from Alberta's tar sands as more polluting than conventional crude.
Canada, whose oil sands are the world's...
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EU Pollution Push in Disarray as Crisis Focus Sharpens
Posted by Bloomberg: Ewa Krukowska and Alex Morales on May 6th, 2013
Bloomberg: Europe’s program to halt climate change is in disarray with lawmakers in the region expressing concern the drift is undermining the planet’s most significant effort to combat global warming.
Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee meet today for a second time to revive a plan the full assembly rejected that would have boosted the cost of greenhouse-gas emissions. The rebuff left the cost of pollution near a record low, leaving companies with less incentive to reduce emissions....
Climate change will increase extreme rainfall; drought, NASA says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 6th, 2013
GlobalPost: A new report by the US space agency NASA says that temperate regions will experience more drought while the tropics more extreme rains in the future.
Enlarge Indian commuters make their way during a downpour in Amritsar on July 27, 2009. NASA scientists claim in a new study that temperate regions will experience more drought while the tropics more extreme rains in the future due to climate change. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images) What do you think?
Climate change will increase extreme rainfall...