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Obama Moves Put Much of Refuge Off Limits Drilling
2015-01-25 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas call to restrict oil exploration on 12 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge probably wont have much practical impact for an area already off-limits to drillers, though its created a new fault line with the Republican-led Congress. The White House on Sunday said it would ask Congress to designate core areas of the 19.8 million-acre refuge as wilderness, including its 1.5 million-acre coastal plain that geologists believe lies atop a rich oil reserve....
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Obama and Indian PM cite progress toward nuclear ties and climate change
2015-01-25 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Seizing on their personal bond, U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that they had made progress on nuclear cooperation and climate change, with Obama declaring a "breakthrough understanding" in efforts to free U.S. investment in nuclear energy development in India. Obama and Modi expressed hope that a landmark 2008 nuclear agreement between the U.S. and India could begin to bear fruit. See also: Obama ending India trip early, will join world leaders...
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Can Obama clear air in Delhi, world most polluted city?
2015-01-24 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
McClatchy: In the world's most polluted city, a layer of smog hangs over everything, thicker year after year. Dirty exhaust pours out of the more than seven million cars clogging the streets. Smoke from the open fires built for heating and cooking fills the air. White plumes puff steadily out of tall towers at the coal-fired power plants. Thus, it's no surprise that after the United States and China, the world's two largest carbon emitters, reached a historic climate change deal in November, attention...
Back in Iowa, Huckabee mocks Obama climate, wage policies
2015-01-24 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Prior Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee is reacquainting himself with activists who could help decide the next Republican nominee. Huckabee appeared before the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday to deliver a biting assessment of President Barack Obama's policies and make a pitch for his potential candidacy. He recently left a cable news show and is on a book tour. The former Arkansas governor mocked Obama's elevation of climate change as a critical issue. Huckabee says a greater threat is violent...
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Obama moves to bring order to groups dealing Arctic warming
2015-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: As Senate votes were rolling in Wednesday--declaring climate change real, but denying mankind's role in it--President Barack Obama was issuing a different kind of decree. In the first executive order after his State of the Union address, the White House created the Arctic Executive Steering Committee, which will attempt to wrangle the numerous agencies in charge of Arctic programs and better coordinate their work in the face of climate change. "Over the past 60 years, climate change has caused...
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