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Category: Climate Change

Appeals Court Upholds Environmental Justice in Richmond
Environmental Impact Report for refinery expansion ruled inadequate Richmond, April 26, 2010 - In an unprecedented victory for the community, the California State Court of Appeals has upheld the majority of findings in a lower court decision that the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the ... Continued...

A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
Cochabamba, Bolivia It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to make his main point: to fight cl... Continued...

Bolivian UN Ambassador Pablo Solon on the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth
Today marks the start of the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth here in Tiquipaya. Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the gathering to give the poor and the Global South an opportunity to respond to the failed climate talks in Copenhagen. We are joined now by P... Continued...

Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice
Rafael Quispe is gearing up for his trip. He packs a small leather bag, puts on his black poncho, an alpaca scarf sporting the rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous flag and his black hat. "This will be an important gathering, a very important gathering. It is about saving our Mother Earth, ... Continued...

Vietnam Feels the Heat of a 100-Year Drought
HANOI -- Every year, even at the peak of Vietnam's dry season, when the Red River is at its lowest, Hanoi's skilled captains manage to negotiate their flat-bottomed boats through its shallow waters. But this year, with a drought gripping the entire country and water levels at record lows, the river ... Continued...

Campaign climate
Updated: 2/4/2010 Print E-mail del.icio.us Digg this 'AGRACRAT': Lincoln joins Republicans in supporting anti-EPA bill. WASHINGTON — A paper published by a think tank last month warned that Sen. Blanche Lincoln's ascendancy to the Agriculture Committee chairmanship was a ... Continued...

Senate Agriculture Committee’s 2010 Priorities
The New Year is upon us and Members of Congress are back in town ready to start back where they left off last session. But what does this mean for the Senate Agriculture Committee? We know the committee will take up the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization, there will also certainly be budget batt... Continued...

Farm Bureau Fires Back Against Climate Bill's 'Power Grab'
The largest U.S. farm group will "aggressively" fight back against any attempts to change the landscape of American agriculture -- including the farm bill or animal rights campaigns, American Farm Bureau Federation Bob Stallman said yesterday. In a fiery speech that kicked off the powerful farm l... Continued...

Cirebon farmers to replace rice with secondary crops
Farmers in Cirebon regency, a center for rice production in West Java, have begun to replace their rice crops with secondary crops in anticipation of a prolonged dry season caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon. The shift from rice to secondary crops will also break a chain of pest attacks ex... Continued...

Top UN climate expert faults G-8 goal without deed
UNITED NATIONS — The chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Monday that the Group of Eight nations had "clearly ignored" taking any concrete action to accomplish its new goal of limiting climate change. Rajendra Pachauri, whose scientific panel shared the Nobel Peace ... Continued...

Senate Agriculture Panel Begins to Stake Its Claim in Climate Bill
Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee will vet options this week for the sweeping energy and climate bill, which they are expected to play a significant role in shaping. The panel will have a hearing Wednesday to explore the role for agriculture and forestry in climate change legislation. T... Continued...

Climate change dividing farm groups?
The climate change legislation now before the Senate has succeeded in doing something neither the nation’s environmental groups or the Bush administration could do: Create fault lines in the farm bloc. The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey bill, H.R. ... Continued...

Senate Ag Panel's Members Look to Stake Major Claim in Climate Bill
Powerful members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are angling to include even more farm and ethanol-friendly provisions to their chamber's energy and climate legislation than the House added to its bill last month. Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and other members of his panel say they want to en... Continued...

Senate Ag Panel's Members Look to Stake Major Claim in Climate Bill
Powerful members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are angling to include even more farm and ethanol-friendly provisions to their chamber's energy and climate legislation than the House added to its bill last month. Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and other members of his panel say they want to en... Continued...

Let's Not Go Backwards on Biofuels: Fixing the Climate Bill's Biofuels Provisions
I welcomed the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act last month. It is a good bill that gets us going down the road toward clean energy and climate solutions. But passing the bill in the House required some last-minute deal making, and one of the most troubling concessions made -- an... Continued...

Minnesota farmers' support for climate-change bill waning
Minnesota farmers thought they'd be wearing the white hats. When the climate-change debate began, many growers were intrigued. They control millions of green acres, the dawn of carbon credits promised new revenue and biofuels showed green could be profitable. "We are the ones that are growing ... Continued...

'Tough' Negotiator Peterson Rocks Climate Debate
Rep. Collin Peterson, the outspoken House Agriculture Committee chairman who has emerged as a key figure in the climate debate, is used to rocking the house. He has done so, guitar in hand, at night clubs, the Grand Ole Opry and Farm Aid as the leader of rock-country bands. And with gavel in hand... Continued...

House Agriculture’s Peterson Seeks Changes in Climate Measure
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said he won’t support U.S. greenhouse-gas legislation backed by Democratic leaders unless changes are made to reduce its potential costs to farmers. Lawmakers are raising questions about the measure and it’s unlikely to get much support among ... Continued...

Agriculture Committee Publishes Climate Change Input from Stakeholder Groups
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson announced the publication of responses to the Committee's climate change survey. The Committee received more than 200 responses to the questionnaire. "The tremendous response to the Agriculture Committee's climate change survey demonstr... Continued...

Possible changes to House climate bill
WASHINGTON - Climate change legislation is advancing in the U.S. House of Representatives and is expected to go through several committees this month. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has already approved the bill to cut industry's greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020. Now, other co... Continued...