California to sue Bush Administration for denying emissions waiver

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday that he would sue the U.S. government for not granting a waiver that would allow his state to enforce new standards on motor vehicle emissions.
California needs the waiver from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a state law requiring automakers to cut tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions by [...]

Climate Conference Agreed as USA Roundly Booed

It overran by a day and the American delegation found itself being roundly booed, but a compromise deal on saving the planet has been hammered out at the climate change conference. Juliette Jowit, Caroline Davies and David Adam in Bali report
After tears, jeers and a dramatic eleventh-hour U-turn by the United States, a compromise deal [...]

Gore: U.S. Obstructing Climate Talks

As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to “go far, quickly” in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate agreement by the end of 2009.
Gore pressed officials from across the globe to [...]

Al Gore Returns to the White House

Forget the Mideast peace talks. A meeting that may require even greater diplomacy will take place Monday in the Oval Office, when President Bush receives America’s Nobel Prize winners — including his one-time rival, Al Gore. A lot has happened to both men in the seven years since the 2000 election.
The president has faced terrorist [...]

Australia ousts center-right coalition

Rudd promised Iraq pullout and will sign Kyoto Protocols
Australians elected a Chinese-speaking former diplomat as their first new prime minister in more than a decade Saturday, embracing left-leaning Kevin Rudd as a next-generation leader who rates tackling global warming his top priority. The emphatic victory brought a sharp and mortifying end to the era of John [...]

U.N.: Ignoring global warming is “criminally irresponsible”

The U.N.’s top climate official warned policymakers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be “criminally irresponsible.”
Yvo de Boer’s comments came at the opening of a week-long conference that will complete a concise guide on the state of global warming and what [...]

White House edited CDC climate testimony

The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate, documents obtained by The Associated Press showed Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday denied that it had “watered down” the congressional testimony that Dr. Julie [...]