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  • UN signals delay in climate change treaty

    WRIC 8 News | 10/27/2009 04:30 pm

    Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global warming.

  • Global events mark magic number on climate change

    WRIC 8 News | 10/25/2009 04:48 am

    Activists held events around the world Saturday to mark the number they say the world needs to reach to prevent disastrous climate change: 350.

  • Veterans push climate-change legislation

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 10/21/2009 05:01 am

    Matt Victoriano won’t back down from a fight to protect his country. But Victoriano, a 29-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran from Arkansas, is standing up to a different kind of ...

  • Roundtable on Climate Change and National Security

    Oregon Hill | 10/20/2009 12:27 am

    Not in Oregon Hill, but nearby in Randolph: Hello, I am writing to invite you to a roundtable on climate change and national security. Military veterans are embarking on a ...

  • McDonnell, Deeds, trade charges on 'cap and trade'

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 10/16/2009 10:10 pm

    Virginia’s candidates for governor continued to pound each other today with new negative TV ads over proposed climate-change legislation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also entered the fray with an ...

  • World leaders stress unity to fight crises

    WRIC 8 News | 09/24/2009 05:44 pm

    Global leaders on Thursday warned colleagues that coordinated international action to end the worldwide recession and reverse climate change must not fall victim to routine political divisions and pitfalls.

  • Virginia looking to offshore wind power

    Virginia Business - News | 09/23/2009 07:15 pm

    Virginia is establishing a task force to facilitate off-shore leasing for wind-powered energy. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has sent a letter to the director of the U.S. Department of Interior’s ...

  • UN chief challenges world leaders to change

    WRIC 8 News | 09/23/2009 03:22 pm

    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenged world leaders on Wednesday to cleanse the globe of nuclear weapons, tackle the threat of catastrohic climate change and combat growing poverty from the global financial ...

  • Fed judge says grizzlies still threatened

    WRIC 8 News | 09/22/2009 04:22 pm

    Facing the combined pressures of climate change, hunters and lax protections, 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park are going back on the threatened species list under a ...

  • U.S. wants vehicles to get 35.5 mpg by 2016

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 09/16/2009 05:01 am

    With global talks on climate change looming, the Obama administration sought to gain momentum yesterday by unveiling its plan to require better gas mileage for cars and trucks and toughen ...

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