WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
Commerce [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in cooperation with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), has released “The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems.”
The report provides a summary of findings contained in a U.S. scientific assessment project commissioned by the USGCRP and released in [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, yesterday cautioned the Senate about creating new programs, whether for healthcare, climate change or education, that are funded through automatic mandatory spending.
In a speech to the Senate, Cochran addressed congressional spending practices, and stressed that the Congress could better control future [...] [...]
JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour has notified Mississippi’s Congressional delegation about his concerns on “how current energy policy and climate change proposals would raise costs for working Americans and put American businesses at a competitive disadvantage globally.”
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey bill, would raise taxes on [...] [...]
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