Center for American Progress climate blogger Joe Romm, formerly of the DOE, wants the IPCC to make the format of its reports shorter, more frequent, and more specific, due to frequent mistakes found in the current lengthy, thousand-page reports. Source: Clean Skies News
President Obama tours a wind turbine plant at a community college outside of Cleveland, Ohio and then promotes green technology as a source of new jobs as well as energy. Source: Clean Skies News
The new year will bring a new commercial building efficiency law in D.C. that could go nationwide and actually make buildings more affordable for owners. Source: Clean Skies News
World leaders finally clinched a climate deal at the end of the marathon talks in Copenhagen but admitted it would not halt global warming, while environmental campaigners and representatives of the poorest countries denounced the outcome as an abject failure. Source: AFP
Danish police used tear gas and truncheons to stop an activists march at the global climate summit in Copenhagen, arresting some 260 people as anger boiled over at the high-stakes talks. Source: AFP
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) has decided to delay a decision to increase the ethanol blend in gasoline. The ethanol industry is hoping for a favorable decision that will enable them to re-open idled plants. Source: Clean Skies News
Clean Skies News’ editor Margaret Ryan analyzes the announcements by the governments of South Korea and Brazil of significant reductions in CO2 emissions by 2020. Source: Clean Skies News
Clean Skies News goes behind the scenes at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, where new technology batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles are being developed with Department of Energy research funding. Source: Clean Skies News
Former Senator John Warner of Virginia discusses what he sees at the Kerry-Boxer bill’s “biggest sell” among lawmakers – the potential effects of climate change on national security. A co-sponsor of two previous climate bills, Senator Warner appeared as a witness on the second day of Kerry-Boxer hearings. Source: Clean Skies News
President Obama speaks to students at MIT. He toured clean energy facilities and encouraged senators to pass climate change legislation and boost renewable energy technology. Source: Clean Skies News
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