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Enviros are trying to push the state back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade program, despite opposition from Gov. Chris Christie.

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Key findings include:

Conservative foundations have bank-rolled denial. The largest and most consistent funders of organizations orchestrating climate change denial are a number of well-known conservative foundations, such as the Searle Freedom Trust, the John William Pope Foundation, the Howard Charitable Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. These foundations promote ultra-free-market ideas in many realms.

Koch and ExxonMobil have recently pulled back from publicly visible funding. From 2003 to 2007, the Koch Affiliated Foundations and the ExxonMobil Foundation were heavily involved in funding climate-change denial organizations. But since 2008, they are no longer making publicly traceable contributions.

Funding has shifted to pass through untraceable sources. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to denial organizations by the Donors Trust has risen dramatically. Donors Trust is a donor-directed foundation whose funders cannot be traced. This one foundation now provides about 25% of all traceable foundation funding used by organizations engaged in promoting systematic denial of climate change.

Most funding for denial efforts is untraceable. Despite extensive data compilation and analyses, only a fraction of the hundreds of millions in contributions to climate change denying organizations can be specifically accounted for from public records. Approximately 75% of the income of these organizations comes from unidentifiable sources.

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Record-breaking warmth across the D.C. area, and broader eastern U.S.

Temperature records have been smashed by today's winter-welcoming heat wave, both in the local region as well as many places to our north and south.

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4 News Outlets Ban Climate Change Deniers

If a climate change denier has no place to voice his opinion, does he still make a sound?

On the one hand, it never seems right to stifle discussion, but on the other hand, is there a point where the facts are so overwhelming and the consequences so catastrophic that it’s time to move the discussion forward rather than entertaining the conspiracy theories of those who stand to profit from the preponderance of misinformation?

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http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/20/news-outlets-ban-climate-change-deniers/

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France adopts 2014 budget; carbon tax on fossil fuels - Read this Platts electric power news article here. Plus discover more electric power market news, products & services.

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Reddit's science forum banned climate deniers. Why don't all newspapers do the same?

One of the moderators of the science page on social news site reddit explains why they ousted climate-skeptic commenters and what they learned in the process.

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Wisconsin on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 22%

A new analysis shows emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are on track to decline by 22% between 2005 and 2020 in Wisconsin.

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Most Companies Still Releasing Unsustainable Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide, Study Finds

SAO PAULO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The majority of large global corporations that have reported their annual greenhouse gas emissions for several years now are still releasing more carbon dioxide than they should, a new study published on Wednesday showed.

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Climate change will increase the number of people at risk of absolute water scarcity by 40 percent this century, according to a German institute.

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Toasty November Vaults 2013 Into Top 5 Warmest Years | Climate Central

With the globe's warmest November on record, 2013 may become the warmest non-El Niño year.

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Congressional Republicans are filing a brief in opposition to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations requiring permits for some greenhouse gas emissions.

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Former energy secretary joins carbon capture company

WASHINGTON — Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu is joining the board of directors of a Canadian company that says it has a cost-effective way to capture and reuse carbon dioxide from power plants fired by coal and natural gas.

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Sink tank: In Miami, climate scientists ask, "How deep, how soon?"

“There’s a lot of silly dreaming about how we’re going to handle this,” he told me during a recent visit to the walrus cave. “We’re going to handle this by relocating.”

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A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto.

The newly discovered gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), has been in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century.

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Climate change: the state of the science

A new data visualization released on the first day of the plenary negotiations at the UNFCCC’s climate negotiations (COP-19) in Warsaw articulates climate risks and the challenge of remaining below 2 degrees.

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