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• China’s greenhouse-gas emissions could double or more in next 20 years. • Former Spanish prime minister calls climate change a “new religion.” • Japan launches voluntary carbon market. • Seoul goes big for bicycles. • Could thorium solve nuclear waste-disposal woes? • Safeway will ban baby bottles containing bisphenol A. • Environmentalists sue EPA […]

Feds boost geothermal energy development

Here’s some steamy action: The Department of Interior on Wednesday announced plans to open 97 million acres of public land in 12 states to geothermal energy development. The plan could more than quadruple the U.S.’s current output of underground-heat power, potentially generating enough electricity to power 5.5 million homes by 2015 and 12 million by […]

U.N. initiative urges green global economy

Fear not: The economic, food, and climate crises can be tackled in one fell swoop, says the United Nations Environment Program. The organization launched a Green Economy Initiative Wednesday, comparing it to Franklin Roosevelt’s Depression-tackling New Deal. “Investments will soon be pouring back into the global economy,” says Pavan Dukdhev of Deutsche Bank, which is […]

Bush admin will rush review of comments on endangered-species plan

The Bush administration will carefully consider the 200,000 non-form-letter comments it received on its recent plan to muck with the Endangered Species Act. And by “carefully consider,” we mean 15 reviewers will chug through ’em in just four eight-hour days. That means each reviewer, each minute, must peruse seven comments, some of which are tens […]