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Keystone Pipeline foes should face reality

...difficult for the pipeline to have any effect on greenhouse-gas emissions. I trust that if opponents dug a little deeper...throughout the well-to-wheels life of the oil, greenhouse-gas emissions from tar-sands crude are 14 percent to 20...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-03-26/keystone-pipeline-f
Guest Columns
Industrial gardening

...practices; coal included with the removal of mountain tops. This does not even consider the carbon and other greenhouse gas emission required for the materials, manufacture, transportation and installation of high tunnels.My point is not to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-02-11/industrial-gardening
Open Forum
When Presidents can't wait and act on their own

...Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. Some critics have noted (correctly) that...truth. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse-gas emissions count as air pollutants within the meaning of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-02-26/when-presidents-can
Guest Columns
Minnesota refinery seeks approval for $400M upgrade

...Minnesota, currently contributes about 3.5 million tons of carbon dioxide, or 2 percent of Minnesota's total greenhouse-gas emissions, according to Flint Hills. "That isn't expected to change significantly as a result of these projects...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2012-11-18/minnesota-refinery-seeks-approva
Business
Republican presidential candidates on the issues

...that humans contribute to global warming. As governor, supported regional cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and urged Congress to cap them. "I will break down barriers to the continued, safe use of fracking," an...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2011-11-07/republican-presidential-ca
Political
When Did 'Climate Change' Become 'Clean Energy'?

...stunningly absent from the political arena."In 2009, the Obama administration purposefully began to refer to greenhouse gas emissions as "carbon pollution" and "heat-trapping emissions." This change is evident in statements from top officials...

http://brainerddispatch.com/maxwell-t-boykoff/2012-01-30
Opinion
No tipping point

...500 expert reviewers to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that our greenhouse gas emissions are causing a climate crisis. In reality, only 62 of them even commented on the chapter in the IPCC report...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-02-21/no-tipping-point
Open Forum
County gets National Achievement Award for landfill innovations

...control system for energy recovery and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This concept of collecting landfill gas for...Crow Wing County report it is able to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and save money.

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-06-24/county-gets-national-achievement-awa
News
CROW WING COUNTY BOARD: County board splits on vote for MPCA fine

...gas collection system has been recognized nationally and at the state level as an innovative system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The system collects the gas - created as a byproduct as materials breakdown in the landfill - and uses some...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-06-28/crow-wing-county-board-county-board-
News
Down with squiggly light bulbs?

...The White House says the standards drive U.S. innovation, create manufacturing jobs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.Incandescent bulbs are not disappearing. Today's energy-savings choices include incandescent lighting...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-07-12/down-squiggly-light-bulbs
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