Global Warming News
Search this section • RSS Feed
| Transit use in New England reduced the region’s global warming pollution more than 1.7 million metric tons in 2005, equivalent to taking 310,000 cars off New England’s roads for the year, according to a new report, Cool Moves, released today by the Environment Maine Research & Policy Center and Natural Resources Council of Maine. Trains, buses and vanpools also saved 240 million gallons of gasoline, in addition to reducing congestion, spurring smart growth, boosting mobility and developing local economies. | |
| PORTLAND—A regional “report card” released today by a coalition of environmental advocates in New England and Eastern Canada gives Maine a “B” for its actions to reduce global warming pollution over the last year. The report card evaluates the states and provinces against the specific commitments that they made in 2001. Maine received a “C” in 2004 and a “B-“in 2005. Maine has improved its grade—earning the highest grade in New England for 2006 and is only second to the Province of Quebec, which scored a “B+”. | |
| PORTLAND—Just weeks after the strongest global warming legislation in history was introduced in Congress, a new report released today by Environment Maine Research & Policy Center shows how the U.S. can meet – and even exceed – the legislation’s goals. The report finds that the U.S. can reduce its global warming emissions by nearly 20 percent within the next 15 years by boosting energy efficiency and renewable energy. | |
| PORTLAND—The average temperature in Portland was 3.1° F above average in 2006, according to a new report released today by Environment Maine. Environment Maine said this warmer-than-normal weather is indicative of what Maine can expect with continued global warming. | |
| PORTLAND—Energy companies are planning to build over 150 coal-fired power plants in locations across the United States, according to a report released today by Environment Maine Research & Policy Center. Far from enhancing America’s energy security, the wave of proposed plants – most of them powered by dirty, last-generation technologies – would dramatically increase global warming emissions and pose energy security and economic problems. | |
| PORTLAND , ME—Global warming pollution in Maine jumped 77% between 1960 and 2001, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of government data released today by the Environment Maine Research & Policy Center. Increased oil emissions and gas emissions were responsible for 51% and 49% of this increase, respectively. | |
| AUGUSTA—New England Governors and Legislatures can reduce the region’s costly oil dependence by taking action to reduce the region’s largest source of global warming pollution: Transportation. This is the conclusion of a report, "Shifting Gears," released today by the Natural Resources Council of Maine and Environment Maine. | |
| PORTLAND—Global warming pollution in Maine increased by 24% between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by the Environment Maine Research & Policy Center. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. | |
| Environment Maine was joined by Maine’s Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, David Littell and City Councilor Jim Cohen to release a new report, Global Warming Solutions That Work, which details more than 20 examples of cutting-edge policies and practices that communities, states and countries are using to reduce global warming pollution. Environment Maine’s current efforts focus on convincing Governor John Baldacci to support a statewide limit on global warming pollution which will require these types of actions to slash emissions. | |
| To protect future generations from the worst effects of global warming, such as a massive rise in sea levels and the extinction of many species worldwide, the most recent science indicates that the United States must halt increases in its global warming emissions immediately, cut its emissions by at least 15 to 20 percent by 2020, and slash its emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050. | |
| The first study to produce a thorough estimate of global warming emissions for 2005, it found that global warming emissions have increased 1.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2E) from 2001 to 2005. | |
| The report found Portland ranked 10th for oil savings from transit among urbanized areas with population under 500,000. | |
| Capping emissions and making polluters pay for putting global warming emissions into the atmosphere is the most economically efficient and fair approach to cutting global warming pollution nationwide, according to a new report by U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Education Fund, released today by Environment Maine. | |
| Clean cars programs adopted by 10 states to limit greenhouse gas pollution from cars will reduce global warming emissions in 2020 by 64 million metric tons per year, an amount greater than the national emissions of more than 140 nations. Put another way, by 2020 the Clean Cars Programs in these states will eliminate as much carbon dioxide pollution annually as is produced by 63 coal-fired power plants generating enough power for nearly a quarter of U.S. homes. | |
| PORTLAND, ME- The fastest growing communities in Maine, largely on the outer fringes of Portland, are contributing disproportionately to the global warming pollution caused by commuting according to "Driving Global Warming", a report released today by Environment Maine Research & Policy Center and the Natural Resources Council of Maine. | |
| Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice” when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment Maine report makes it clear that the Maine is already experiencing extreme downpours and heavy snowstorms much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall or snowfall are now 43 percent more frequent in the state than they were 60 years ago. | |
| An annual global warming progress report was released today in Maine and the other nine New England states and Eastern Canadian provinces. Maine, along with Connecticut and Massachusetts, received a B-, the highest grade given on the U.S. side of the border. The report card measures progress on commitments made by the five Governors, and five eastern Canadian Premiers, in 2001 to meet global warming benchmarks by 2010, 2020 and beyond. | |
Phone: (617) 747-4317