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Obama to Tighten Fuel Efficiency Standards for Big Trucks Through Executive Order
2014-02-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama will announce Tuesday that the federal government will further tighten fuel efficiency for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, according to a White House official, as part of the president's ongoing effort to use his executive authority to address climate change. Obama's directive to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, which he will announce at the Safeway distribution center in Upper Marlboro, Md., marks the second time he has mandated a cut in...
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Kerry State Department Ignored Obama Climate Action Plan
2014-02-17 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In 2009, President Obama made a commitment to reduce U.S. greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020. The Obama administration put this forward as the U.S. share of a global effort to limit climate change to no more than two degrees Celsius - the target scientists tell us may be safe. Achieving this target, which has been unanimously agreed on a global level, is central to the success of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, announced in June of last year. It is therefore shocking to realize that...
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Obama seeks $1 billion to fight climate change
2014-02-15 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: President Obama announced on Friday that he wants Congress to authorize $1 billion in new spending on the fight against climate change. During a speech at one of California`s drought-stricken farms, the president said that his 2014 budget would include the funds to pay for new technologies to help communities prepare for a changing climate [and] set up incentives to build smarter, more resilient infrastructure. We know that we can innovate and meet this challenge, but we`ve got to start...
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President Obama: Fate California farms affects whole country
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: It's not often President Barack Obama gives a speech centered on agriculture, but the three years of scorching drought in California prompted him to fly there Friday to speak to weary farmers and ranchers and pledge millions of dollars worth of aid. "As anyone in this state could tell you, California is living through some of its driest years in a century,' Obama said after touring a farm and a water facility. Moments before Obama briefly painted a bleak picture of the state's condition by describing...
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Obama: US must rethink the way it uses water as climate changes
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Warning that weather-related disasters will only get worse, President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. must rethink the way it uses water as he announced new federal aid to help drought-stricken California. Obama drew a clear connection between California's troubles and climate change as he toured part of a farm that will go unsown this year as the state faces its worst drought in more than 100 years. Even if the U.S. takes action now to curb pollution, the planet will keep getting warmer "for...
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