Global Warming In the News
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Views divided on global warming impact on Michigan
- Capital News Service (new window)
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9/22/2006 |
| A report from Environment Michigan has environmentalists and public policy experts looking at the impact of global warming in the state. | |
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This little traveler saved the planet
- Detroit Free Press (new window)
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7/22/2007 |
| Undo environmental damage caused by your flight to Jamaica! Make up for all those fumes you expel on your drive to Des Moines! Buy yourself some carbon offsets. Carbon offsets, the latest buzzword in travel, means that you pay a little extra to help reduce the Earth's carbon dioxide levels when your travel increases it. Travelers spanning the globe in jets, cars and big RVs pollute. Offsets are one way to make travel green. | |
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Report Pans Coal-Fired Power Plants
- Detroit Free Press (new window)
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7/21/2006 |
| A new report by the Environment Michigan Research and Policy Center regarding the future construction of coal-fired power plants suggests that, if the United States invested $137 billion in energy-efficiency measures instead of building power plants, electricity demand could be reduced by 19% by 2025. | |
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The heat is on
- Metro Times (new window)
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7/2/2007 |
| Like all good scientists, Scudder Mackey was skeptical 15 years ago when he began hearing predictions that increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would lead to global warming. | |
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Auto emissions ruling could cost Big Three
- Detroit News (new window)
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4/3/2007 |
| The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to automakers Monday when it ruled that the Bush administration must reconsider whether to regulate auto tailpipe emissions. | |
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Court rules stricter regulations needed
- The State News (new window)
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4/3/2007 |
| The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision that the Environmental Protection Agency not only has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, but also that it has neglected to do so. | |
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Change for the worse?
- The Flint Journal (new window)
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4/22/2007 |
| CLAYTON TWP. - Jim Koan sees global warming in every damaged bud on his apple trees at Almar Orchards this spring. More frequent and erratic weather extremes - hallmarks of climate change - are already happening here, Koan said. "We haven't had any normal years in the last few years, with some of the worst extremes in weather closer together than I can ever remember," said Koan, 58. "It won't take too many catastrophes to wipe us out." Much may be at stake for the rest of us, too. | |
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Michigan high on list of carbon dioxide emitters
- Bay City Times (new window)
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4/16/2007 |
| Global warming pollution has been rising in Michigan, according to a new report, and one environmental group is calling on a local Congressman to do something about it. | |
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Step it Up 2007
- Detroit Free Press (new window)
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4/15/2007 |
| Online video documenting the global warming rally held in Ann Arbor. | |
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Planning a protest: Dream Cruise in Crosshairs
- Detroit Free Press (new window)
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4/14/2007 |
| Joellen Gilchrist knows her mission is heresy. She's expecting rude shouts and unkind gestures, but that won't deter her. She wants to stop the Dream Cruise. | |
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Rally to address Global Warming
- Ann Arbor News (new window)
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4/11/2007 |
| Hundreds of people are expected at a rally Saturday on the University of Michigan campus to voice their concerns about global warming. | |
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