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U.S. to seek 30 percent cut in power-plant carbon pollution
2014-06-01 19:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans on Monday to propose a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from the country's existing power plants by 2030, people briefed on the proposal told Reuters. Word of some of the proposal's components came before Monday's unveiling by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. They mark the most sweeping and significant environmental regulations introduced by the Obama administration. Although states will be given different targets to meet depending on the...
EPAs latest pollution cutting plan scheduled for Monday announcement
2014-06-01 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro News: Federal EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is set to release carbon emissions limits on existing power plants during a news conference Monday morning at EPA headquarters. Reports Sunday evening indicated the draft proposals goal would be to cut emissions by 30 percent by 2030. U.S. Senator Joe Manchin is confident the EPAs plan wont bode well for West Virginia and its coal industry. This administration has had blinders on when it comes to looking at the reliability of the system, the reliability...
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EPA urged to protect people's welfare in new rules to limit pollution
2014-06-01 18:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pilot: Citing concern that power plants are a major contributor to climate change through carbon emissions, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami called upon the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to craft rules limiting pollution that respect human life and dignity. The archbishop, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, told EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in a May 29 letter that standards to reduce power plant pollution should protect the health and...
UN climate change chief praises new US pollution regulations
2014-06-01 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's new power plant regulations, due for release on Monday, could unlock stalled negotiations for a global deal on climate change, the United Nations' top climate official said. Christiana Figueres, the UN's top climate change official, said she expects the new power plant rules could spur other big emitters such as China and India to begin taking action on climate change and move forward on reaching a deal by the 2015 deadline. The Environmental Protection Agency will roll out the...
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Obama, GOP spar ahead of new EPA pollution rules
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama and Republicans squared over pollution regulations in their weekly radio addresses to the nation Saturday morning ahead of Monday's rollout of landmark EPA greenhouse gas restrictions for power plants. Obama, who taped his address Friday at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. focused on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on public health. "As president, and as a parent, I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that's beyond fixing,'...
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