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This week, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Council Speaker Chris Quinn announced plans to introduce legislation that will require owners of 22,000 office and apartment buildings around the five boroughs to invest in building improvements that will reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions. The announcement, which came on Earth Day, seems like a winning proposition in a city where 80 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and air pollution emanate from buildings and their tenants.
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WASHINGTON -- The top U.S. climate negotiator, Todd Stern, said Tuesday that he was "a bit more optimistic" that the world could solve the global warming crisis after...
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Apr 27th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
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Apr 24th, 2009 - New York Times
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with members of Congress how to move health care reform forward. That's what will continue to happen this week. Yes, sir. The Press: The President talked this morning about kind of coordinating with China to get a global, I guess, response to climate change for the Copenhagen summit ...
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this year, and tomorrow both sides of the aisle and both sides of the issue will be represented. I think in many ways, how this moves forward -- I think the President wants to talk with members of Congress and share different opinions and viewpoints as to what the best path forward is ...
