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Annual J.D. Power report ranks Ontario Toyota plant No. 1
2014-06-22 23:16:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
A Toyota Motor Corp. assembly plant in Ontario was ranked tops in an annual report on the quality of cars produced around the world.
4 former Republican EPA chiefs laud power plant rule in Senate hearing
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Four former Republican U.S. EPA administrators praised the agency's climate change rule for existing power plants today in a Senate hearing room packed with coal miners expressing fear that the proposal would strangle their industry. The administrators told an Environment and Public Works subcommittee that current Administrator Gina McCarthy did what the Clean Air Act required in her proposal aimed at curbing the power sector's greenhouse gases. The rule was printed in the Federal Register today,...
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Focus on power plant rule's health benefits could build wider support among public
2014-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The Obama administration's emphasis on the public health benefits of its first-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards for existing power plants may help make climate change resonate with more Americanswhich could build support for the controversial rule. Communications research suggests that educating the public on the health impacts of climate change and the benefits of curbing greenhouse gas emissions could be key to convincing a wider range of Americans to support the power plant rule and other...
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Power plant debate prompts war of stats
2014-06-16 09:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's new pollution limits for power plants have set off an avalanche of information about what the rules will cost, how they will affect your health and how far they will go toward curbing climate change. There's just one problem: Almost none of it is based in reality. That's because Obama's proposed rules, which aim to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30 percent by 2030, rely on states developing their own customized plans to meet their targets. Among the options...
Will EPAs power plant regulations be stopped in the courts?
2014-06-13 20:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The famous adage that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes should probably be amended. At least insofar as politics and policy are concerned, there is a third inevitability: lawsuits. Before they even know the details of a major environmental regulation, affected industries start looking for ways to get it thrown out in court. That`s definitely the case for President Obamas newly proposed regulation on CO2 emissions from existing power plants. Republican-controlled states will...
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