News USA 2009

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2009


 * USA pledged to contribute $275m to a forest protection fund in 2010, 19 November topic


 * California Energy Commission approves the nation's first energy efficiency standards for televisions. November 18 place, topic


 * Big power companies can now be sued in federal courts for their pollution following an historic ruling by a New York appeal court, September 25 topic, topic


 * California decree requires electricity companies to generate a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020, September 12 topic


 * Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar launches the Department of the Interior’s first-ever coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America’s land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources, September 14 Under the framework, A new Climate Change Response Council, will amongst other things, work to improve the sharing and communication of climate change impact science, including through www.data.gov. topic, topic


 * Milestone at world's largest cleanup site: Hanford nuclear basin removed, September 13 topic


 * San Francisco opens the city’s data, August 19 topic


 * Government shuts off water to California farms in controversial effort to help threatened species, August 13, 2009


 * Obama administration okays major mountaintop removal coal project in West Virginia, August 12


 * Draft California Climate Adaptation Strategy now available for public comment, August 3, 2009 topic, topic


 * Dr. James Hansen and Daryl Hannah arrested in protest on mountaintop removal, June 23 topic


 * Mayor Newsom announces innovative new tool to access San Francisco city services with a 'Tweet', June 2 topic


 * Drop in CO2 in USA and power use in China - for now, May 21 topic


 * White House announces Open Government Website, Initiative, May 21 topic


 * 60 percent of Americans live in areas where air is dirty enough to endanger lives, April 29


 * Maria Gunnoe, a tireless voice in the movement against mountaintop-removal coal mining, awarded Goldman Environmental Prize 2009, April 20


 * USA Environmental Protection Agency finds greenhouse gases pose threat to public health or welfare, April 17 Additional impacts of climate change include, but are not limited to:


 * increased drought;
 * more heavy downpours and flooding;
 * more frequent and intense heat waves and wildfires;
 * greater sea level rise;
 * more intense storms; and
 * harm to water resources, agriculture, wildlife and ecosystems. / topic


 * USA overall emissions during 2007 increased by 1.4 percent from the previous year, April 15 Overall emissions have grown by 17.2 percent from 1990 to 2007. topic


 * Greenwashing affects 98% of products, April 15


 * World's largest urban farm planned for the city of Detroit, April 2 topic


 * California in drought emergency, February 28


 * Droughts 'may lay waste' to parts of the USA, February 26 topic


 * A solar deal to put mirrors in the Mojave, February 11 place


 * IPCC chairman challenges Obama to further cut USA emission targets, January 16 Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: "President-elect Obama's goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 falls short of the response needed by world leaders to meet the challenge of reducing emissions to levels that will actually spare us the worst effects of climate change." topic


 * White House plans open government, January 22 topic

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