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		<title>US Announcement Good for Global Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howie</dc:creator>
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The biggest news out of Copenhagen over the past 24 hours did not originate in the Danish capital, but rather from Washington DC, where the US Environmental Protection Agency declared that Carbon Dioxide and the five other major greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human and environmental health.  The annoncement makes the creation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Announces High Speed Rail Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama outlines a vision for High Speed Rail in America.]]></description>
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		<title>American emit 4.3 million fewer tonnes driving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN reports that Americans are drove billion fewer miles in May than they did in May &#8216;07.
With high gas prices and a slowing economy, Americans are now taking fewer trips by car and are starting to rely again on muscle power to get around.
If we assume that the average fuel efficiency for all vehicles is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Oil Man and Hard Core Republican backs wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oil man and a major donor to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth &#8211; the organization that discredited John Kerry and helped bring George W. Bush back to the White House in 2004 &#8211; has become one of the biggest backers of wind power in the United States.

Not only has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Be Carbon Free in a Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon, former US Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore challenged the United States to drastically change how it produces electricity; by generating power using 100% renewable energy in 10 years.
Here&#8217;s an excerpt of his speech:

About 2800 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by electricity generation in the United States every year. [...]]]></description>
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