Topic: U.S. Climate Action Partnership

Weyerhaeuser joins push for U.S. climate bill

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Weyerhaeuser Co, a timber developer and home builder, has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group of companies and moderate green groups pushing for a climate bill, the organization said.</p><p>Weyerhaeuser's chief executive ...

Climate Forecast: Stormy

If you've been looking for some good news in efforts to address global climate change, this was not your week. On Tuesday, oil giants BP and ConocoPhillips joined Caterpillar in announcing they were quitting the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a ...

House Democrats Outline Plans for Curbing Climate Change

The article focuses on a draft of climate legislation released by House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman and Representative Edward Markey, which is expected to form the basis of the climate debate in the U.S. Congress. Dubbed the American ...

USCAP Supports New Climate Change Bill

The article reports on the support of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) to a newly proposed greenhouse gas (GHG)-reduction bill introduced Senators Joseph Lieberman (I., CT) and John Warner (R., VA). The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP; Washington ...
Top World Business Leaders Demand Governments Take Drastic Action on Global WarmingSome of the world's top business leaders are demanding that international diplomats meeting next week come up with drastic and urgent measures to cut greenhouse gas pollution at least in ...

CEOs Ask Bush for Mandatory Emissions Caps

In an unlikely alliance, big business and environmental groups are urging the Bush administration to get serious about global warming. A coalition of 10 U.S. companies, the United States Climate Action Partnership, has joined with environmentalists in requesting that the federal ...