The US administration has taken a step towards a low carbon future by acknowledging its role in causing rising global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
U.S. Wants Emissions Control Area to Halt Ship Air Pollution
The United States has asked the International Maritime Organization to create an emissions control area (ECA) around the nation’s coastline, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on March 30 at a joint news conference with the Coast Guard and New Jersey elected officials.
US lawmakers present draft bill on ‘clean energy’
On the international level, the United States is “powerfully and fervently engaged” in talks to forge a global climate treaty by the end of the year, Obama’s Special Envoy on climate Todd Stern said Sunday in Bonn, as the 11-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) forum got under way.
