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Global News latest headlines Watchdog's estimates of oil reserves inflated says top official, 9 November [1] topic Climate deal 'unlikely' this year, 5 November [2] topic People who use modern information and communication technologies have larger and more diverse social networks, Nov 4 [3] topic References ↑ The Guardian, 9 November 2009 ↑ BBC News, 5 November 2009 ↑ Pew Internet & American Life Project, Nov 4, 2009

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• 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 ^[1] topic, topic

• California decree requires electricity companies to generate a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020, September 12 ^[2] 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 ^[3] 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 ^[4] topic

• San Francisco opens the city’s data, August 19 ^[5] topic

• Government shuts off water to California farms in controversial effort to help threatened species, August 13, 2009 ^[6]

• Obama administration okays major mountaintop removal coal project in West Virginia, August 12 ^[7]

• Draft California Climate Adaptation Strategy now available for public comment, August 3, 2009 ^[8] topic, topic

• Dr. James Hansen and Daryl Hannah arrested in protest on mountaintop removal, June 23 ^[9] topic

• Mayor Newsom announces innovative new tool to access San Francisco city services with a 'Tweet', June 2 ^[10] topic

• Drop in CO2 in USA and power use in China - for now, May 21 ^[11] topic

• White House announces Open Government Website, Initiative, May 21 ^[12] topic

• 60 percent of Americans live in areas where air is dirty enough to endanger lives, April 29 ^[13]

• Maria Gunnoe, a tireless voice in the movement against mountaintop-removal coal mining, awarded Goldman Environmental Prize 2009, April 20 ^[14]

• USA Environmental Protection Agency finds greenhouse gases pose threat to public health or welfare, April 17 ^[15] 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 ^[16] Overall emissions have grown by 17.2 percent from 1990 to 2007. topic

• Greenwashing affects 98% of products, April 15 ^[17]

• World's largest urban farm planned for the city of Detroit, April 2 ^[18] topic

• California in drought emergency, February 28 ^[19]

• Droughts 'may lay waste' to parts of the USA, February 26 ^[20] topic

• A solar deal to put mirrors in the Mojave, February 11 ^[21] place

• IPCC chairman challenges Obama to further cut USA emission targets, January 16 ^[22] 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 ^[23] topic

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References

1. ↑ off-grid.net, September 25, 2009
2. ↑ off-grid.net, September 12, 2009
3. ↑ U.S. Department of the Interior, September 14, 2009
4. ↑ wikinews, September 13, 2009
5. ↑ TechCrunch, August 19, 2009
6. ↑ wikinews, August 13, 2009
7. ↑ Yale Environment 360, August 12, 2009
8. ↑ California Resources Agency, August 3, 2009
9. ↑ Rainforest Action Network, June 23, 2009
10. ↑ Mayor's Home Page, June 2, 2009
11. ↑ Dot Earth blog, May 21, 2009
12. ↑ The White House, May 21, 2009
13. ↑ New American Lung Association, April 29, 2009
14. ↑ Worldwatch Institute, April 20, 2009
15. ↑ Environmental Protection Agency , April 17, 2009
16. ↑ Environmental Protection Agency, April 15, 2009
17. ↑ TerraChoice, April 15, 2009
18. ↑ Hantz Farms, April 2, 2009
19. ↑ BBC News, February 28 2009
20. ↑ The Guardian, February 26
21. ↑ Dot Earth Blog NYTimes.com, February 11
22. ↑ Worldwatch Institute, January 16, 2009
23. ↑ BBC news, technology, January 22