U.S. Emissions to Increase by 2020; World Talks Continue in Germany
This week the U.S. announced that it expects its global warming emissions to grow over the next decade:
In its first major climate report to the United Nations in four years, the United States reported Tuesday that its projected climate-warming greenhouse gases will grow by 4 percent through 2020.
The first such report submitted under the Obama administration includes a 1.5 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main gas from fossil fuel burning blamed for global warming.
Meanwhile, over in Bonn, Germany, a new round of United Nations climate change negotiations opened Monday with representatives of 182 governments attempting to set a framework for limits on greenhouse gas emissions to avert the worst consequences of global warming.
If you're not an international or national leader at those talks in Germany right now, but you want to help reduce U.S. global warming pollution -- we can help. Become a Climate Leader and learn how to take action all the time to help shape policies. Sign up on the Activist Network.
Protect the Clean Air Act and Fight Global Warming
We put this action into the last edition of Hotline, but the vote was pushed back -- now it's time to check in again to make sure you've taken action.
We've been fighting Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's attempt to put Big Oil profits before public health and safety since December, when she proposed a resolution -- written by Big Oil lobbyists -- to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its Clean Air Act authority to limit global warming pollution.
Now the vote has been set for June 10th, and your help is needed more than ever to make sure Senator Murkowski’s resolution does not pass. Have you asked your Senators to vote NO on it yet? Do it now!
With Nuclear Power Comes Nuclear Waste
Nuclear power supporters in the U.S promote it as an energy source with low carbon emissions. One of the many problems with nuclear power, though, is - What do you do with all the waste? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today on the problem with nuclear waste around the country.