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White House uninterested in delaying implementation of carbon emissions plan, adviser says
2015-06-04 21:40:23| Waste Management - Topix.net
In spite of calls to delay implementation of the EPA's carbon emissions program, the Obama administration has no interest in doing so, one of the president's top energy and environmental advisers said Thursday. Christy Goldfuss , managing director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said the time has come to begin acting on the Clean Power Program.
Oil majors climate call exposes US-Europe rift carbon pricing
2015-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The failed attempt by the world's oil majors to speak on climate change action with one voice has laid bare disagreement between U.S. and European companies on putting a price on carbon. The world's top oil companies have struggled for years to form a joint front in the face of growing criticism for not taking leadership against climate change. This week's letter calling for a global carbon pricing by Europe's Statoil, Total, BP, Shell as well as ENI and BG showed first signs of such an agreement,...
Kentucky is already on track to meet EPAs carbon emissions goals, analyses indicate
2015-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WFPL: Kentucky is on track to comply with the EPAs upcoming federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissionseven if no further actions are taken. The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report Wednesday outlining Kentuckys progress in complying with the yet-to-be announced federal standard. It estimates that by 2020, the first year the state will have to meet greenhouse gas limits, Kentucky will have already cut its emissions to 113 percent of the goal. In all, 14 states are on track to meet or...
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EU set to offer polluters 10 years of free carbon credits - document
2015-06-04 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Union may have to offer its heaviest polluting industries another ten years of free carbon credits to prevent them from leaving the region to do business elsewhere, EU regulators have suggested in a report seen by Reuters. Ten years ago the EU launched a plan to tackle climate change by asking heavy industry and utilities to pay for every ton of carbon dioxide they produced. After fierce lobbying, it conceded that the heaviest polluters could have free permits. The so-called Emissions...
China's national carbon market: When, where and how?
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Barcelona has seen more raucous partygoers, but the sharp suits drinking in the beachfront Carpe Diem bar last week were in bullish form. Wine, beer and champagne flowed as carbon traders from around the world gathered on the final night of industry fair Carbon Expo to toast what many think could be their finest hour. Many of their colleagues have fallen in the past few years, brought low by the twin woes of the EUs emissions trading scheme and the UNs Clean Development Mechanism. Both...
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