The Bush administration has consistently thwarted efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in its calculations, according to documents made public through a watchdog. On one occasion, the White House’s pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words โclimate changeโ from the title of a bank progress report and ordered changes to the text of the report to shift the focus away from global warming.
Seemingly unlikely alliances are springing up in Canada and the U.S. to prevent rural communities from becoming a โtoxic CO2 dumping groundโ.
New controversy adds to scrutiny of party's finances.
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
As the company faces a landmark climate lawsuit, confidential documents show how British scientist James Lovelock warned executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels in the 1960s.
