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November 29 News: Group Threatens To Sue EPA For Not Acting Quickly Enough On Carbon

Thursday, November 29, 2012 18:12
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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

Campaigners threatened to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday in an effort to push Barack Obama to make good on his re-election promise to act on climate change. [Guardian]

As President Obama approaches the start of his second term, the country faces a growing list of climate and weather-related challenges. How the Obama administration handles these issues, and more, will help determine how resilient the U.S. will become in the face of weather and climate extremes. [Climate Central]

The Senate on Wednesday gave the green light to the Pentagon’s investment in green energy. [Washington Post]

The United States government has temporarily banned the British oil company BP from new federal contracts, citing the company’s “lack of business integrity.” [New York Times]

The Exxon Mobil station on 2nd Street and Avenue C became an impromptu movie theater last night, as a coalition of climate-change activists projected a short film about Hurricane Sandy recovery onto the wall above it. [The Village Voice]

An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening “before our eyes.” [Washington Post]

As the nations of the world struggle in Doha to agree even modest targets to tackle global warming, the cuts needed in rising greenhouse gas emissions grow ever deeper, more costly and less likely to be achieved. [Reuters]

This year is likely to be the ninth warmest on record, with global temperatures in 2012 cooler than the average for the past decade owing to the effects of La Niña weather patterns early in the year. [Guardian]

In the December edition of the scientific journal BioScience, scientists detail how climate change has been affecting — and could further change — a forest ecosystem in New Hampshire. [Poughkeepsie Journal]

A bipartisan group of legislators said Wednesday that the failure to expand a critical subsidy for renewable energy could cost Americans tens of thousands of manufacturing and construction jobs. [Associated Press]



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