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One Weird Trick Will Help You Cut Carbon Emissions Overnight
2014-06-03 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Just like that, we're already halfway to our new goal of reducing global warming pollution from power plants. On Monday morning, President Obama announced a new target for carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants: a 30 percent reduction by 2030. The action is as significant as (and possibly greater than) Obama's previous steps to significantly upgrade fuel efficiency from cars and trucks, and may help deliver a fatal blow to the coal industry. But by choosing a baseline year of 2005...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical