The U.S. Climate Action Report is one of the most significant documents on U.S. policy initiatives and actions to address climate change. It also provides a review of federal efforts “…to increase scientific understanding of climate change, and provide foreign assistance to help other nations mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.” This is the fifth climate action report, which will be...
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Investors with 82 companies have filed a record 95 shareowner resolutions, according to Ceres’s Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR).  This amounts to an increase of roughly 40% over the number of resolutions filed during the previous year.  The growth trends is one of the first signs of the growing pressure on companies to disclose climate risks and opportunities in the wake of the recent Securities...
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The U.S. Department of State issued a Federal Register Notice notifying interested members of the public of the opportunity to submit comments on the draft fifth National Communication on U.S. climate change actions – the U.S. Climate Action Report 2010.  The U.S. CAP is a requirement for all Annex I Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The United States released previous Climate Action...
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Washington State is moving forward on plans to enter into long-term biomass supply agreements with biomass energy companies. The state recently enacted the Forest Biomass Supply Agreements Bill, which will enable companies to secure reliable and predictably priced biomass feedstock from state forest lands. Supporters claim the measure will boost the timber economy while helping maintain forest health.  The measure compliments HB 2165, which...
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From March 22 through March 28, a dozen flights were made to induce precipitation, and nearly 10,000 artillery shells and 1000 rockets were fired into the atmosphere over Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, and Chongqing.  “The cloud seeding efforts have helped quench the drought, especially in Yunnan, as drizzle to medium-scale rain,and even heavy precipitation, was induced. But the drought in Guizhou is expanding,” according to...
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