greenhouse gases

Regulation of Greenhouse Gases May Fall to EPA

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Tue, 02/23/2010 - 17:35

With the cap-and-trade bill mired in the Senate, regulation of greenhouse gases may fall to the EPA. How exactly would that work?


 

Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of li...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 23:00

(University of California - Berkeley) Six international studies published this week in the British journal the Lancet show that cutting greenhouse gases, in particular ozone and black carbon, can quickly save millions of lives worldwide in addition to slowing climate change.

UC Berkeley's Kirk Smith and Michael Jerrett will join Carol Browner in a Nov. 25 press conference to discuss the implications of climate policy for global health, especially in low-income nations.


 

US health care sector is a fairly green giant

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 11/10/2009 - 15:08

CHICAGO (AP) -- Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases....


 

Lisa Johnson: The New Head of the EPA

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 04/23/2009 - 00:30

An April 17 EPA decision potentially opens the door for the agency to directly regulate greenhouse gases, which would represent the most far-reaching action in its history.

The EPA head spoke to TIME about the decision


 

How Meat Is Worsening Global Warming

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Tue, 09/09/2008 - 15:45

Producing the world's beef and pork intake creates more greenhouse gases than all of the planet's cars, planes and boats combined