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Trump admin unveils national fuel rule, blow to CA
The Trump administration unveils a national fuel economy standards rule that would revoke California's authority to set its own auto emission standards, authority it has had for decades under a waiver from the federal Clean Air Act.
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India limits cars in New Delhi to tackle pollution
Authorities in New Delhi are restricting private vehicles from the roads on alternating days to control vehicular pollution as people in the national capital continue to gasp under toxic smog.
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Farmers protest govt plans to rein in emissions
Dutch farmers gathered in The Hague on Wednesday in the latest protest against the government's plans to rein in emissions of nitrogen oxide.
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Learning how air pollution can contribute to global warming
Rosamond, California -14 May 2008
1. Wide of dry lake bed at Edwards AFB used as runway.
2. Wide of researchers test facility set up on dry lake bed.
3. Medium of researchers with test equipment.
4. Medium as researcher attached wing to...
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Paris bans half of city's cars and trucks from streets to combat worst air pollution in years
Paris imposed drastic measures on Monday to combat its worst air pollution in years, banning around half of the city's cars and trucks from its streets in an attempt to reduce the toxic smog that has shrouded the City of Light for more...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON'S REACTION TO FUEL EMISSIONS AGREEMENT
English/Nat
The United States and other industrialised countries ended 11 days of contentious debate at a global climate conference on Thursday by agreeing on a historic pact to control greenhouse gases.
But the pact, approved by...
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Democratic US Senators are pulling an all-nighter, discussing climate change. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid kicked off the dusk-to-dawn talkathon. (March 11)
It's a lot of hot air about a lot of hot air.
Democrats took to the Senate floor Monday night to talk about global warming and planned not to let up until morning. By midnight, lawmakers had been talking for nearly six hours.
...
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WRAP Presser of climate change summit, US envoy, German min reax
1. Sigmar Gabriel and Yvo De Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNF)
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Sigmar Gabriel, German environment minister:
"It has to be the guiding principle to...
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Madrid pollution harmful to people exercising outdoors
1. Various of hazy Madrid skyline
2. Various of traffic
3. Wide of Retiro park
4. Mid of jogger running
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox Pop, Madrid resident (no name given)
"Yes, my nose is very dry and it is harder to breath. But you've got...
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Indonesia - Fires continue to rage
Fires continue to rage in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and dry weather threatens to revive the blazes which cast a pall of smog over much of Southeast Asia last year. Fires have engulfed 1,600 hectares (3,952 aces) in the...
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Free public transport in capital in effort to curtail air pollution
Millions of commuters in Paris and other parts of France are getting free public transport this weekend as part of plans to reduce what the European Environment Agency says is the worst air pollution since 2007.
The belt of pollution...
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Thick smoke from Indonesian fires blanket capital, Badawi comments
Kuala Lumpur International Airport, 90 kilometres from the capital
1. Various airport; planes on the tarmac
Kuala Lumpur
2. Various cars on road
3. City in haze
4. Various of Kuala Lumpur skyline, including Petronas twin towers
5....
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Ahead of G8 climate talks, clean-up efforts in one of Europe's most polluted cities
1. Plot of land showing area of deforestation
2. Pile of logs
3. Man examining soil
4. Close-up of hand picking up soil
5. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) Sipos Attilla, Vox Pop:
"Recently we have faced a massive illegal cutting of trees. We...
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JAPAN: KYOTO: UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION: DEMONSTRATIONS
Eng/Jap/Nat
Protestors took to the streets of Japan on Thursday to demand faster action to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Cutting the output of the main so-called "greenhouse gas", which scientists blame for global warming continues to...
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Chancellor says agreement for "substantial cuts" to g'house gas emissions
1. Wide shot of Heiligendamm
2. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, heading for news briefing in cart
3. Wide shot of Merkel coming out of cart and walking
4. Merkel approaching reporters
5. SOUNDBITE: (German) Angela Merkel, German...
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WRAP IOC meets; ADDS spokeswoman on BALCO, internet, air quality
1. Wide of Beijing Hotel, venue for International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting
2. Various of hotel sign and flags
3. Chinese vice-president, Xi Jinping, arriving and walking down stairs
4. International Olympic Committee President,...
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Delegates split on progress as climate conference passes halfway mark
2 December 2011
1. Various of performance by Oxfam outside the venue of COP17 climate change talks in Durban, depicting developing nations arguing with politicians and heads of state over water
2. People entering talks venue
1...
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KOSOVO: PRE-DAWN RAID ON MINES UPDATE
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
Tensions have erupted in Mitrovica where NATO-led peacekeepers took control of a Serb-run mining complex on Monday.
Hardline Serb leaders say they will not allow ethnic Albanians back into the Trepca mine without a...
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INDIA: NEW DELHI: AIR QUALITY DETERIORATING
English/Nat
Indian environmentalists are hoping that the UN Earth Summit, which today (Friday) winds up in New York, will lend a new sense of urgency to measures to cut pollution on the subcontinent.
New Delhi is the fourth most...
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Barcelona prepares for the dry season one year after a severe drought
Sant Roma de Sau, June 17, 2009
1. Wide shot of Sau water reservoir at maximum capacity
Sant Roma de Sau, April 29, 2008
2. Wide shot of Sau water reservoir empty with medieval village exposed
Sant Roma de Sau, June 17, 2009
3. Mid shot...
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Malaysia - Haze clouds G15 summit
The smoky haze that has been plaguing south-east Asia since July
returned to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (4/11), clouding the Group of Fifteen (G15) developing nations summit. Talks that have so far focused on economic crisis, now look set...
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G8 scene setter, Fukuda's arrival, voxpops, security
New Chitose Airport, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Northern Japan
1. Zoom-in of plane carrying Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda taxiing after landing
2. Cars waiting and media
3. Fukuda walking down plane stairs
4. Fukuda being welcomed by...