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Obamas climate plan calls for carbon cuts at US coal plants
2013-06-27 10:00:00| Power Technology
US President Barack Obama has launched the country's first national climate action plan and announced new rules to cut carbon emissions from power plants in the country.
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John Boehner and Obamas war on coal
2013-06-27 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: "The president's announcement yesterday of essentially a national energy tax and the continuation of the war on coal will only make matters worse, putting thousands and thousands of Americans out of work; increasing the cost of electricity, especially in a state like mine, Ohio, where about 95 percent of our electricity comes from burning coal.' -- House Speaker John a. Boehner (R-Ohio), news conference, June 26, 2013 The Fact Checker grew up in Ohio, and so the House speaker's claim that 95 percent...
Dueling Keystone camps heartened by Obama's words on pipeline
2013-06-27 02:45:25| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Leaders of a group opposing the Keystone XL pipeline hailed President Barack Obama for raising the issue in a major address on combating climate change.
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Domtar's Chief Executive Commends President Obama's Call for Climate Action
2013-06-26 18:38:32| Paper - Topix.net
"The forest products industry has voluntarily made significant reductions in its reliance on fossil fuels over the past decade."
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The two things we learned yesterday about Obamas plans to regulate coal
2013-06-26 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In Obama`s climate speech yesterday, he offered a rousing defense of pollution standards, practically cribbing from this post I wrote in 2009. (Be still my heart!) As expected, he called for the EPA to regulate carbon from both new and existing power plants. But he offered no detail, and nothing in his remarks addressed the stringency of the power-plant rules, which is the heart of the matter. Nonetheless, we now know a couple of things about the coming regs that we didn`t know before. First,...
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