Tag: Global Warming

An electronic sign warns of a severe drought in California. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Energy and Environment

White House: US ‘already being hurt by climate change’

Meghashyam Mali · February 14, 2014 5:00 am

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.:ÃÂ "I've been very careful in saying very precisely that Congress is not going to act at the present time. But the present time can be changed, even with some of the present members when the public pressure grows." (AP)

Energy and Environment

House Democrats rev up climate initiative

Zack Colman · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, announcing executive actions to combat climate change, said Wednesday that extreme weather was already harming farmers and livestock producers. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Obama administration creates ‘climate hubs’ to combat extreme weather

Brian Hughes · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks in New York. Bloomberg has been chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to be a U.N. envoy for cities and climate change, U.N. diplomats said Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 The billionaire businessman and philanthropist turned politician made combating climate change a major focus of his 12 years as mayor. He was also very outspoken on how cities should be run to cope with ever increasing populations. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Energy and Environment

Ex-NY mayor Bloomberg named UN climate envoy

Edith Lederer · January 31, 2014 11:09 pm

FILE - This Feb. 13, 2013 file photo shows Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune being arrested outside the White House in Washington, as prominent environmental leaders tied themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline. President Barack Obama is sticking to a fossil-fuel dependent energy policy, delivering a blow to a monthslong, behind-the-scenes effort by nearly every major environmental group to convince the White House that the policy is at odds with his goals on global warming. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)

Green groups: Obama not doing enough on climate

DINA CAPPIELLOMATTHEW DALY · January 31, 2014 9:34 am

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Energy and Environment

Obama’s list: Over 40 goodies for supporters

Paul Bedard · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

A Surplus of Hot Air

The Scrapbook · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Washington Secrets

It’s too cold: Half of millennials blame cold on climate change

Paul Bedard · January 26, 2014 5:00 am

Rock star Bono speaks during a panel discussion "The Post-2015 Goals: Inspiring a New Generation to Act", the fifth annual Associated Press debate, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Cameron, Bono link poverty, climate at AP debate

John Heilprin · January 24, 2014 8:06 pm

President Obama speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony at Compact Power, Inc., a battery plant in Holland, Mich., in July 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Obama stresses US position as climate leader

Zack Colman · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Last week, an unsigned editorial in the Investors Business Daily proposed that global warming is a back door to socialism. (Thinkstock)

Global warmists aim to disempower America

Ron Arnold · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Children line up to receive a Christmas gift from volunteers near a giant lantern with the colors of the Philippine flag, in Tacloban, Philippines, a city devastated by the Nov. 8 typhoon Haiyan. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Energy and Environment

NOAA: World in 2013 was 4th hottest on record

Seth Borenstein · January 21, 2014 10:11 pm