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US Supreme Court Appears Divided Over Global Warming Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2006 
The nine-member US Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday as it took up the debate over global warming, with rival lawyers arguing whether some greenhouse gas emissions should be regulated.
Despite its symbolic importance, the case is limited to whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate vehicle emissions of four greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. But environmentalists hope a ruling in their favor would force changes in the policies of President George W. Bush's administration, which has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
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Sakhalin-2 Consortium To Face Series Of Penalties
Moscow (AFP) Nov 29, 2006The international consortium developing the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in eastern Russia should prepare for a range of economic penalties over feared environmental damage, Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev warned on Wednesday. "The economic sanctions which will be imposed without fail will not be just fines but a package of economic measures," the minister said according to news agency ITAR-TASS. French EDF Wind-Power IPO Zooms 
Paris (AFP) Nov 29, 2006Shares in a French wind-power company were launched here on Wednesday and gained 19.0 percent in the first hour of trading, driven by "enormous" investor interest, dealers said. The company being floated was EDF EN, an offshoot of the French electricity group Electricite de France (EDF), the biggest generator of nuclear power in the world. Bulgaria Signs Contract With Atomstroyexport To Build Nuclear Plant 
Sofia (AFP) Nov 29, 2006Bulgaria signed a contract with Russian company Atomstroyexport here Wednesday to build a new nuclear power plant at Belene in the north of the country. The contract was signed by the executive director of Bulgaria's National Electricity Company (NEC), Lyubomir Velkov, and Sergei Shmatko, the president of Atomstroyexport, whose subcontractors are France's Framnatome and Germany's Siemens. The new nuclear plant, which will be Bulgaria's second and will produce 2,000 megawatts, will cost just under 4 billion euros the NEC said. |
EU Calls For Tougher Pollution Plans To Bolster Emissions Trade
Brussels (AFP) Nov 29, 2006The European Commission told 10 EU members on Wednesday to impose more demanding pollution quotas on their energy-intensive industries to ensure the smooth functioning of the EU's innovative emissions trading scheme. The EU's executive arm said it would only accept the plans -- from Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovakia and Sweden -- to issue emissions quotas if they are scaled down. US Experts Call For Tighter Controls On Nanotech 
Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2006Nanotechnologies pose real threats to health and the environment and need prompt testing and oversight, but government and industry are moving slowly on the issue, scientists and environmentalists said Tuesday. Chinese Firms Seek To Replace DVDs With Home-Grown Technology 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2006Leading Chinese makers are to stop making DVD players from 2008 as part of China's plan to replace foreign technology with a new home-grown standard, an industry alliance chief said Wednesday. "Nineteen out of our 21 member manufacturers will be producing EVD players with compatible function only by 2008," Zhang Baoquan, the secretary-general of the EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc) Industry Alliance told AFP. |
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Trade - Doha's Last Chance
Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2006If the last-ditch effort to save the Doha Round of the world trade talks succeeds, it will be the most remarkable revival since Lazarus. But the hope of breakthrough that liberates trade in services just like trade in manufactured goods may still enjoy just a few weeks of life. Written off for dead after last summer's impasse over American and European food subsidies, a new joint Anglo-American effort has breathed some life into the corpse. 3-D Computer Models Aid Research Of Earth's Core 
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Nov 29, 2006The work of a University of Alaska Fairbanks post-doctoral fellow will be included in an article appearing in the upcoming issue of the journal, Science. The article reveals that scientists are now able to directly measure heat that moves from the molten metal of Earth's core into a region at the base of the mantle, a boundary located halfway to Earth's center, about 1,740 miles deep. A European Spy In Al-Qaida - Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2006A Muslim man who was a spy inside al-Qaida for several European intelligence services in the 1990s says he was cut loose right after the group bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa -- the very moment when its global reach and capabilities became so bloodily apparent. |
Aerial Combat: US Pilots Practiced Against MiGs
Beijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2006A news conference held Thursday at the National Museum of the United States Air Force revealed a long-kept secret: thousands of U.S. military pilots gained an aerial-combat edge by practicing dogfighting against Soviet-designed MiG fighters. Brilliant Growth Without Gold 
Halle, Germany (SPX) Nov 29, 2006Max Planck researchers in Halle present new methods for manufacturing nanowires from silicon Silicon nanowires can help to further reduce the size of microchips. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have for the first time developed single crystal silicon nanowires that fulfil the key criteria to this end. The researchers used aluminium as a catalyst to grow the nanowires. To date, scientists have usually deployed gold for this purpose. However, even traces of the precious metal have a drastically detrimental effect on the function of semiconductor components. UK MoD Wants Inventors To Design Surveillance Kit 
London (AFP) Nov 28, 2006Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is challenging inventors to come up with a surveillance device to help soldiers on patrol in Iraq and Afghanistan, a minister told BBC radio Tuesday. Lord Paul Drayson said that many ground-breaking innovations had emerged from "garages and people working in their garden sheds". |
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