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New top Obama aide to focus on climate, energy
2013-12-10 14:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: John Podesta, a former chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, will join President Barack Obama's inner circle for one year as a counselor to focus on energy and climate change issues, the White House said Tuesday. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough decided to bring Podesta to the White House to help with his experience as a former top White House aide and as the head of Obama's transition team after the 2008 election. Carney also noted that Podesta...
Former Clinton aide Podesta joining White House to advise Obama
2013-12-10 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, is returning to the White House to advise President Barack Obama as he struggles to regain his footing after the flawed healthcare law rollout. Podesta steered Obama's transition team in 2008 after he won the presidency. His arrival is a signal that the president, famous for accepting counsel primarily from a tight-knit group of advisers, is looking for some outside help as he seeks to regain momentum in his second term. Podesta...
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Two Obama Administration Pollution-Control Measures to Court Tuesday
2013-12-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Two of President Barack Obamas top pollution-control measures face courtroom tests tomorrow as coal-dependent utilities, miners and some states challenge what they call overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency. Efforts to regulate pollutants that cause smog and soot, as well as mercury from coal plants, have moved in fits and starts for more than a decade. If both rules go forward it would cause power producers such as American Electric Power Co. (AEP) and Southern Co. (SO) to shutter...
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Obama extends eagle 'take' permits to 30 years
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The Interior Department announced today that it has finalized a new rule that will allow renewable energy and other projects to obtain permits to injure, kill or disturb bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years, a move that pleases the wind power industry but alarms environmentalists. The revised rule, set to take effect next month, will allow the Fish and Wildlife Service to grant programmatic incidental "take" permits to wind farms, transmission projects and other long-term energy operations...
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Obama to feds: Boost renewable power 20 percent
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Saying the government should lead by example, President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to nearly triple its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020. Obama says the plan to use renewables for 20 percent of electricity needs will help reduce pollution that causes global warming, promote American energy independence and boost domestic energy sources such as solar and wind power that provide thousands of jobs. Obama was set to announce the plan Thursday as part of his...
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