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Obama Announces New Climate Plan Which Prioritizes Limiting Carbon
2013-06-27 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: President Barack Obama has announced a broad plan to deal with the effects of the climate change, specially the rising sea level and severe weather. The plan also seeks to put in place regulation to control carbon dioxide emission at power plants. Comprised by 21 pages, the plan outlines a blueprint to expand production of solar and wind energy and include billion of dollars in loan to finance the development of cleaner fossil-fuel and other energy technologies. In another development, the...
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Obama Has a Plan for Climate, What If It Involves Tar Sands?
2013-06-26 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: "You see, I've got this plan..." ... On a sweltering day in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama sweated as he laid out his new plan to combat climate change. In addition to the mandatory cuts in CO2 pollution from coal-fired power plants and the efforts to protect the country from the ravages of climate change highlighted by my colleague Mark Fischetti, Obama also found time to mention a little pipeline that would connect the tar sands in Alberta, Canada with refineries along the Gulf Coast...
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Obama climate plan: Bold, but will China go along?
2013-06-26 15:38:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: As President Obama unveils sweeping policies to address global climate change in a speech at Georgetown University Tuesday, his focus is on curbing power plant emissions at home and boosting US investment in efficiency and clean energy. But climate change is a global problem, and the atmosphere, as they say, doesn't care where the carbon comes from. And whatever the United States does, the fate of global warming lies in the hands of China, India, and much of the developing world. China's growing...
Obama offers plan to fight climate dangers
2013-06-26 08:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: President Obama on Tuesday unveiled a comprehensive blueprint to combat rising seas and more frequent severe weather caused by climate change, including a long-awaited promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant at existing power plants. The 21-page plan would expand production of solar and wind energy and includes billions of dollars in loan guarantees to develop cleaner fossil-fuel and other energy technologies. It also funds new efforts to armor communities against flooding, wildfires,...
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Obama plan offers help to U.S. cities on climate's front lines
2013-06-26 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama's climate plan on Tuesday offered help to U.S. cities dealing with natural disasters and specifically for the region slammed by massive Superstorm Sandy in October. For Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey the plan came not a moment too soon. Hoboken, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, was in the bull's eye of Sandy last October, when storm surges flooded 80 percent of the city, causing $100 million in property damage to 1,700 homes and hundreds of businesses....
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