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India to 'hike green energy targets' to combat climate change

India promises to hike renewable energy targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, in long-awaited pledges to be announced next week for upcoming UN climate change talks, a newspaper report said Thursday. India, a major CO2 polluter, will increase solar and wind energy capacity but it’s unclear whether it will commit to a timeline for reducing its overall carbon emissions blamed for climate change, the report said. India will aim

US Dumps Twice as Much Trash as EPA Estimated

The United States is sending more than twice as much solid waste into its landfills as previously thought, a new study finds. Researchers found that people threw away 289 million tons of municipal solid waste in 2012, a figure that is more than double the 135 million tons that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculated for that same year. The new estimate also exceeds by 4 percent the World Bank’s

Clinton says she will put out a clean energy plan in next few days

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she would release a plan in the next few days for a clean energy agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico. “I will also be putting out in the next few days a broad approach to how I would work to have a North American compact about clean energy,” Clinton told the Des Moines Register

Venezuela holds military exercise, raising tensions with Guyana

Venezuela said Tuesday it is conducting military exercises in the eastern part of the country, a move neighboring Guyana denounced as an “extraordinary escalation” of an ongoing border dispute. Guyana’s President David Granger said his cabinet was meeting with military and police chiefs to craft a response to Venezuela’s movement of naval vessels and ground forces in the area. Venezuela has been pressing claims to Guyana’s Essequibo region, which encompasses

Volkswagen Shares Tank After Company Admits to Cheating the EPA

Volkswagen shares plunged more than 20 percent on Monday, their biggest one-day fall, after the German carmaker admitted it had rigged emissions tests in the United States, and U.S. authorities said they would widen their probe to other manufacturers. Germany, alarmed at the potential damage the scandal could inflict on its world-beating car industry, urged Volkswagen to fully clear up the matter and said it would investigate whether emissions data