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Scott Walker blasts Obama clean power plan
2015-08-04 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
State Journal: Gov. Scott Walker slammed President Barack Obamas plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at a rapid-fire Republican presidential candidate forum Monday, while side-stepping a question on whether he believes climate change is related to human activity. Walker was one of 14 candidates to appear at the Voters First Forum at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. It was the first of two events the second being the first Republican presidential debate Thursday at which the candidates will start...
Obama Clean Power Plan Prompts Carbon Tax Chatter
2015-08-04 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: The big national cap-and-trade plan died on Capitol Hill five years ago, and it remains very much dead. A carbon tax--the perennial academic solution for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions--had even less traction in Congress and lives on mostly in think tanks. But President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations for power plants, unveiled on Monday, may give those policies new life at the state level. In a change from the draft plan, the final EPA rule now explicitly says...
Obama plan 'hope' for Paris deal
2015-08-04 13:07:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK government welcomes President Obama's plan to cut greenhouse gases and boost clean power.
Obama Upbeat on Clean Power Plan, Dismisses Critics
2015-08-04 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: President Barack Obama is convinced that "no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a changing climate," he said today at the White House, launching his plan to cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from power plants 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. Globally, 2014 was the hottest year on record, and 2015 is on track to break that record. Obama pointed out the dangers of the planet`s rising temperature. "The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate...
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President Obama Just Finalized His Plan to Fight Climate Change
2015-08-03 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: President Barack Obama has been more vocal than any previous president about the need to combat climate change, and on Monday his administration is releasing a package of rules that will likely be the most important--and most controversial--piece of his climate legacy. "Climate change is not a problem for another generation," Obama said in a video released early Sunday morning. The Clean Power Plan, as the rules finalized Monday are known, is "the biggest, most important step we've ever taken...
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