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Obama's climate adviser plans to step down
2013-10-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The White House's senior energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, is leaving the administration, officials said Monday, despite the president's entreaties to stay. Zichal, who has spent five years in the Obama administration coordinating the work of multiple agencies on issues ranging from air quality to global warming, played an instrumental role in pushing for stricter fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants. In an effort...
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VIDEO: Does Obama's absence at Apec matter?
2013-10-07 14:40:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Leaders of Asia-Pacific countries gather on the Indonesian island of Bali for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit.
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US shutdown hits Obama's climate agenda as EPA staff are sent home
2013-10-02 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: About 94% of the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been sent on leave of absence as part of the US government shutdown. Nearly all of the agency's 16,205 employees across the country, with oversight of air quality, industrial waste, water and sewage treatment plants, have powered down their computers, updated their voicemail, filled in their last timesheets, and left buildings as part of the shutdown. Only 1,069 essential staff such as emergency personnel who deal...
Carbon limits: Obama's EPA sets terms for tomorrow's cleaner energy industry
2013-09-21 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For citizens of a democratic society, there may be no greater obligation than to act today to protect future generations from the threats of tomorrow. That is what the Obama administration did on Friday, when it stood up to protect our children from the widening ravages of global climate change. It moved to set in place the first-ever limits on dangerous carbon pollution from the power plants we'll build in the years to come. Climate change is the leading environmental challenge of our time....
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Obamas carbon rules seen as new battleground for EPA
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys proposed limits on power-plant emissions blamed for climate change is a broad new battleground for an agency that has spent four decades focused on the local impact of pollutants such as lead, mercury and ozone. The draft regulations, issued yesterday, would impose the first cap on carbon emissions from new power plants, dealing a blow to the market for coal. While restrictions on emissions of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants have been in place for...
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