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Highlights of Obama's climate plan
2013-06-25 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to combat climate change and prepare the U.S. and other nations for its effects. Some highlights of the president's plan: REDUCE POLLUTION -- Issue a presidential memorandum to launch the first-ever federal regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. -- Revise and reissue proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants. -- Provide up to $8 billion in federal loan guarantees to spur investment...
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Obamas climate plan in 3 easy bullet points (and a few sub-bullet points)
2013-06-25 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Have you cared about the climate since before it was hot? Do you enjoy watching poor-quality live streaming video? Do you appreciate platitudes about how we must act to save our children? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, then you`re the target audience for President Obama`s climate change speech today. Watch it at 1:35 p.m. ET at WhiteHouse.gov. For those who don`t enjoy suffering through buffering, we have assembled here the highlights of the president`s climate plan in...
Obamas Ambitious Global Warming Action Plan
2013-06-25 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: n advance of President Obamas speech Tuesday afternoon laying out his three-pronged plan to cut releases of greenhouse gases and the impacts of global warming, White House officials circulated detailed fact sheets and discussed the plans with journalists, including me, last night. They laid out an impressive array of steps, most of which have long been in the pipeline or anticipated and which can be carried out without congressional approval. The 21-page White House climate action plan is easy...
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Could Obamas climate plan help decrease asthma rates?
2013-06-25 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox News: As the Obama administration moves to implement a national plan to combat climate change, some doctors say that these measures could help fight the steadily rising rates of asthma in the United States. Detailed in President Obamas Climate Action Plan, the initiative maintains that, Asthma rates have doubled in the past 30 years, and our children will suffer more asthma attacks as air pollution gets worse. And according to some experts, numerous studies do point to pollution as a contributing...
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BIO Welcomes President Obama's Recognition of Biotechnology's Contribution to Renewable Energy
2013-06-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BIO applauded President Barack Obama's recognition of contributions made by biotechnology to design of new biofuels and to agricultural productivity in the President's Climate Action Plan. BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood specifically thanked President Obama for recognizing biotechnology's positive role in addressing environmental concerns and said that BIO is encouraged by plan to use advanced biofuels to help reduce CO2 emissions in transportation sector.<br /> This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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