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Committed Carbon Emissions Are Rising Fast
2014-08-30 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Challenging news for those climate campaigners who believe that renewable sources of energy are on the increase: they may be, but so are carbon dioxide emissions. Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine and Robert Socolow of Princeton University in the US report in the journal Environmental Research Letters that existing power plants will emit 300 billion tons of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during their lifetimes. In this century alone, emissions have grown by 4%...
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Will the EPA carbon rule destroy jobs or create them? Probably both.
2014-08-29 02:20:08| Waste Management - Topix.net
On Thursday, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the Public Service Commission held a stakeholder meeting to discuss the economic impact of the EPA's Clean Power Plan , the major new proposed rule that aims to curtail carbon dioxide emissions by imposing higher standards on existing power plants over the next 15 years.
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Why Republicans wont back a carbon tax
2014-08-28 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Climate change activists across the political spectrum fantasize about it. No, its not another Kanye West video of snowy mountains and a topless Kim Kardashian. Its a carbon tax. Republicans, as everyone knows, hate taxes and dont accept, much less care about, climate change. But wonks on both sides of the aisle dream that a carbon tax could win bipartisan support as part of a broader tax-reform package. A carbon tax could be revenue neutral, the dreamers point out, and if revenue from the...
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Existing power plants will emit 300 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in their lifetime: study
2014-08-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
The existing power plants worldwide will emit over 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in their lifetimes, according to a new study by Princeton University and the University of California-Irvine (UC Irvine).
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China's carbon emission down by 5%: Premier Li
2014-08-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: China's carbon emission has declined by 5 percent this year, the largest progress in recent years, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday. "China's economy maintained medium-high growth in the first half of this year while its carbon emission has achieved the largest reduction this year, down by 5 percent year on year," Li said in his talks with Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, an island country in the Caribbean. Browne is on his first China visit since his government...
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