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U.S. carbon emissions tick higher; Obama tells U.N.: We have to do more'
2014-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Obama administration appears to be losing ground in its efforts to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, according to new government figures that show pollution levels rising again after several years of gradual decline. Data released Friday by the Energy Department show American factories and power plants putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the first six months of 2014 compared with the same period in each of the past two years. The figures confirm a reversal first seen...
U.S. carbon emissions rise despite Obama climate plan
2014-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: U.S. emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide have risen 6% in the last two years despite the Obama administration's efforts to curb global warming, federal data show. Reversing several years of declines, its emissions from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) rose 2.7% during the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2013, and 6% compared to 2012, according to the Energy Information Administration's "Monthly Energy Review." This increase is a setback for President...
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EPA head confident states will follow new carbon emission rules
2014-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: WASHINGTON -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Friday that she believes most states will ultimately comply with her agency's proposed new rules on carbon emissions. The rules, which were released earlier this year and are supposed to be finalized by June 2015, set new limits, specific to each state, on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Each state, however, will need to develop its own plan for meeting those standards. Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA can...
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China embraces carbon pricing and UN takes a shine to plan
2014-09-27 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Millions of visitors and residents could hardly miss the message projected on the side of the world famous United Nations building in New York this week: Put a price on carbon. At the UN's Climate Summit this week a diverse group of global leaders, from World Bank president Jim Yong Kim to California Governor Jerry Brown, spoke of the need for polluters to pay for each ton of carbon they emit. More than 1,000 companies pledged their support for the effort. Carbon pricing, largely rejected...
ADM permitted to store carbon dioxide underground
2014-09-26 21:51:01| Food - Topix.net
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a permit for Archer Daniels Midland Company to store carbon dioxide deep underground in Decatur, the agency said Friday. The permit will allow ADM to store 1.1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to an EPA news release.
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