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Clean Coal Turnabout?

Posted by Bill Chameides of Duke University on November 28, 2012
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A clean-coal lobbying group talks of a “shared … commitment” with the Obama administration on the environment. Hmm.

Looking to the Climate-Change Road Less Traveled

Posted by Bill Chameides of Duke University on February 22, 2012
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Tropospheric ozone, a component of smog (shown here over Los Angeles), is one pollutant that is being targeted to help reduce global warming while we await policies to curb carbon dioxide emissions. (Photograph by photos_mweber/Flickr)

Congressional deadlock and new scientific insights force new direction. The news on the avoid-dangerous-climate-change front seems to get ever bleaker. On the Policy Side, Little to No Progress The probability of a U.S. policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions any time soon is as close to zero as you can get — President Obama said…