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Will Barack Obama's Power Africa turn the lights out on energy poverty?
2013-07-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Sunday, standing in the shadow of the Ubungo power plant in Dar es Salaam, Barack Obama launched a multi-billion dollar effort to "plug Africa into the grid of the global economy". At face value, the US president's Power Africa initiative is welcome. It's an ambitious, aspirational commitment to "double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa". No doubt action is needed if trends continue, more people in Africa will be without access to modern energy services in 2030 than today. Obama prioritising...
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Can Obama's Climate Change Policy Reduce Carbon Emissions?
2013-07-02 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: President Obama recently presented the latest version of his Climate Policy. In addition to expanding on the scope of previous plans that would increase clean energy supplies, energy efficiency, and reduce high global warming potential gases, the President now recommends better preparing the country for future climate impacts, and has directed the EPA to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants. While the current plan covers a very broad range of climate related strategies, the question...
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EPA kicks off first phase in Obama's carbon emission crackdown
2013-07-02 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken the first steps towards delivering on President Obama's pledge to tighten emissions rules for power plants, with reports confirming the agency has submitted a new set of draft emissions standards to the White House. The influential Politico website reported yesterday that the agency has submitted draft proposals for emissions standards for new power plants, formally kicking off the process promised by President Obama in his landmark address on...
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Coal workers respond to Obama's climate change plan
2013-07-02 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox News: I mean now from west Virginia's Josh Nelson who works for a mind repair company. He's also a member of this State's house of delegates also his father mark member of united mine workers union. Who recently went back to work as a bulldozer operator after a long layoff it's good to have both of you here. And mark. When you're on this show and -- been laid off from your job at the coal mine. You've heard the president's comments this week about the coal industry. What kind of -- comments are you...
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Obama's rhetoric makes climate action a simpler question of right and wrong
2013-07-02 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: THERE are a lot of decisions in life that are easier because we know the difference between right and wrong - it's why we wouldn't steal a biscuit from a poor homeless orphan or kick away a pensioner's walking stick as they're about to step on to a pedestrian crossing. For these reasons, stealing stuff that's not yours or assaulting pensioners (or anyone else for that matter) is considered by the community at large to be ethically or morally wrong as well as being against the law. Recent rhetorical...
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