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Obama launches plan to fight climate change in US
2013-06-25 22:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Climate change just got personal - or at least, that's how President Barack Obama is selling the idea of taking action on climate change to the American people. Launching his long-awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: "Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you," he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC. With the Republican majority in...
Obama Unveils Plan to Tackle Climate Change
2013-06-25 20:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: A far-reaching plan to fight climate change detailed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday would profoundly reshape the way the U.S. produces and consumes electricity, though the resistance it is sure to encounter promises to sow uncertainty for an industry already buffeted by shifting rules and economics. As part of a much-anticipated speech at Georgetown University, in which the president laid out the first-ever federal effort to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions from the power sector, Mr. Obama...
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Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy
2013-06-25 19:30:18| Green Car Congress
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Republicans: Obama climate plan is anti-American war on energy
2013-06-25 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Leading Republicans were using phrases like anti-American and war on American energy to describe President Obamas new plan to combat climate change, escalating the rhetoric even before the Presidents Georgetown University speech outlining his program. President Obamas anti-American energy plan will increase the price of energy and hurt job creation, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., tweeted. Bachmann is a longtime climate change denier who has defended the presence of carbon dioxide in...
Obama unveils climate change plan that goes around Congress
2013-06-25 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obama is launching fresh battles over climate change with plans to curb emissions using executive powers that sidestep Congress -- including controversial rules to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants. The wide-ranging plan, which Obama will tout in a speech later Tuesday, also beefs up federal efforts to help deploy low-carbon and renewable energy, and has programs to help harden communities against climate-fueled extreme weather. Internationally, it seeks to knock down...
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