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Australia: Barack Obama's climate change moves put heat on Tony Abbott
2014-06-02 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A dramatic acceleration of America's response to climate change, including strong caps on coal-fired pollution threatens to expose Australia's humble 5 per cent emissions reduction target by 2020 as too low and out of step with the rest of the world. The US move may overshadow the first bilateral talks between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and President Barack Obama to take place in Washington next week. Those talks will cover trade, economic and strategic issues but with climate change again dominating...
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Barack Obama's carbon cuts plan is a big step in the right direction
2014-06-02 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US president Barack Obama has laid out his legacy on one of the issues that will define the world long after his brief term in power is over. He has been frustrated in several other attempts to bring climate change to the fore of US politics, with the demise of cap and trade plans a notable failure, but his move to use the Environmental Protection Agency to cap carbon emissions is his boldest effort yet, trying to circumvent the Congressional stalemate on the issue using his constitutional powers....
President Barack Obama to announce rules on limiting carbon emission
2014-06-01 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: THE Obama administration today plans to make public the first rules limiting carbon emissions from the thousands of power plants. The pollution controls form the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's campaign to combat climate change and a key element of his legacy. Obama says the rules are essential to curb the heat-trapping greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Critics contend the rules will kill jobs, drive up electricity prices and shutter plants across the country. Environmentalists...
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Will Barack Obama's climate agenda survive a Republican pushback?
2014-01-16 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama built a climate change strategy on bypassing Congress and using his existing authority to cut carbon pollution and prepare for an altered future. As it turns out, though, Obama could use some help from Congress after all in heading off Republican attempts to circumvent that effort. Four of Obama's top climate change officials appeared before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday to try to build momentum behind Obama's use of federal government agencies to...
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President Barack Obama's Hawaii vacation: Day 10
2013-12-31 13:55:20| Airlines - Topix.net
President Barack Obama is seen through the window of his motorcade vehicle as he is driven through the Kailua, Hawaii, neighborhood where he is spending his annual holiday vacation with his family, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, en route to Makiki Valley Loop Trail in Honolulu to hike with family and friends.
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