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New Proposal to Protect Alaskan Wilderness Most Sweeping in Decades

2015-01-25 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: No president in 35 years has made as sweeping a conservation proposal as President Barack Obama did today by urging Congress to transform the oil-laden coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into what would be the largest wilderness area in the nation's history. The president's move to designate 12.3 million acres of new wilderness would block decades of efforts to drill for oil on a 1.5-million-acre portion of the refuge. That coastal region is thought to contain up to 10.3-billion...

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CNMC proposes sweeping changes to wholesale fibre market

2014-12-19 14:20:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Spain's communications regulator CNMC has proposed a series of new requirements on Telefonica with a view to ensuring competition in the fibre optic broadband market and promoting investment in next generation access (NGA) networks. Under the new rules, Telefonica would have to open up its fibre optic network in all of Spain apart from nine cities in which there are greater levels of competition in NGA deployment. The cities are Madrid, Barcelona, Alcala de Henares, Badalona, Coslada, Malaga, Mostoles, Seville and Valencia, representing around 16 percent of the Spanish market. The CNMC said there were at least three simultaneous rollouts of NGA networks in these localities (at least two fibre and one cable network) due to the nature of their population and strategic location. In the rest of Spain, the CNMC has also proposed that Telefonica provide wholesale access to its fibre network using a process known as 'virtual unbundled local access' (VULA). In addition, the regulator has proposed that Telefonica provide a wholesale offer for the business sector throughout Spain encompassing both copper lines (ADSL) and new fibre optic deployments, with prices regulated by the CNMC. The decision would have significant repercussions in a sector where Telefonica currently boasts a market share of nearly 70 percent, allowing other operators to launch superfast broadband offers.

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Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions

2014-11-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The Obama administration is expected to release on Wednesday a contentious and long-delayed environmental regulation to curb emissions of ozone, a smog-causing pollutant linked to asthma, heart disease and premature death. The sweeping regulation, which would aim at smog from power plants and factories across the country, particularly in the Midwest, would be the latest in a series of Environmental Protection Agency controls on air pollution that wafts from smokestacks and tailpipes. Such regulations,...

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U.S. EPA seeks more input on sweeping power plant rule

2014-10-28 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: U.S. regulators said on Tuesday they wanted more input on elements of a sweeping plan to reduce pollution from power plants and about the role natural gas can play to achieve emissions cuts. The Environmental Protection Agency identified areas of concern raised by "multiple stakeholders" since it unveiled its proposals in June, and hopes to get additional input before its public comment period ends on Dec. 1. The plan called for the U.S. power sector to slash carbon emissions from 2005 levels....

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