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Woodside CEO slams coal industry: 'Give me a break, who coined clean coal.'
2015-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Review: Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman has joined the heads of the world's largest oil companies in attacking the environmental impact of coal and pushing gas as a cleaner alternative in electricity generation ahead of critical climate change talks in December. Mr Coleman gave a punchy speech at the World Gas Conference in Paris on Wednesday during which he ridiculed the concept of "clean coal" and argued that only a combination of natural gas and renewable energy sources was "not simply a global...
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Clean Power Plan Argument Hinges on Health Benefits
2015-06-03 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In its push for cutting greenhouse gases in the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration has leaned hard on the health argument for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. President Obama pitched his carbon proposal last year from Childrens National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he met with children suffering from asthma. In the first year it goes into effect, U.S. EPAs carbon plan for existing power plants would avert up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks, the president...
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Gas firms in 'clean energy' rebrand
2015-06-02 13:53:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Bosses of some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies tell an international conference the world needs to move away from coal and into gas.
Researchers propose $150bn programme to produce clean energy
2015-06-02 01:00:00| Power Technology
A group of scientists and economists have proposed a global research programme that can bring down the costs for green power generation and help countries to deal with climate change concerns over the next 10 years.
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Idaho's Farmers And Cities Unite To Clean Waterways
2015-06-01 21:54:45| Waste Management - Topix.net
"There's a lot of partnership that goes into flushing your toilet or draining your tub," said Andy Waldera, an attorney who represents Pioneer Irrigation District in Caldwell. These groups generally fall on opposite sides of the water pollution debate, with cities blasting farmers for runoff that winds up in the water supply.
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