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Carbon Emissions

Are China’s Skyrocketing CO2 Emissions Our Fault?

We Westerners just can’t get enough of cheap Chinese goods. While we satiate our voracious appetite for cheap gadgets and gizmos, China continues to build factories to meet that demand – factories that are polluting their air and water and emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Last year, China officially earned the title [...]

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Obama Will Likely Allow States to Toughen Air Quality Rules

California and other states will most likely be given permission to toughen air quality rules soon after Obama takes office, forcing automakers to produce cars that are far more efficient than those allowed under current federal standards.
More than a dozen states will be able to enforce their own greenhouse gas emission standards on automobiles, rules [...]

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Youth Demonstrate in Support of Survival of All Countries and Peoples

The international youth delegation at the UN climate talks is asking all countries to commit to safeguard the future of all countries and peoples’.

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Wildlife Group Presses Poor Nations on Carbon Emissions

Third world countries’ carbon emissions are rising fast, but they’re insistent that they have a right to continue expanding their economies via cheap but dirty fossil fuels as long as their emissions don’t reach the higher per-capita emission rates of industrialized nations. But, by some reports, countries like China and India may already be surpassing [...]

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We Enjoy Modern Carbon-Emitting Life, and Poor Kids Around the World Pay the Price

The rich developed world has yet to reign in the habits that are contributing to global warming, and guess who’s paying the price: the world’s poorest children. As wealthy businesspeople, tycoons, celebrities and other privileged people enjoy large gas-guzzling vehicles, trips on private jets and other non-sustainable penchants, children across the globe are seeing their [...]

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