The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouseย gases.
Scientists said they will face major gaps in data that can be collected only from satellites about ice caps and sheets, surface levels of seas and lakes, sizes of glaciers, surface radiation, water vapor, snow cover and atmospheric carbonย dioxide.
The Reform UK leaderโs planned trip to Washington D.C. has prompted fresh consternation from campaigners.
Policymakers, civil society, investors, business, and the media all must answer key questions fast โ before the regulatory rollback turns into a rout.
The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.
Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.
