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Obama says 'no greater threat planet than climate change'
2015-04-18 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change poses the world's biggest single threat. "Today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change," Obama said in his weekly address, which had an environmental theme to mark Earth Day on April 22. "Climate change can no longer be denied, or ignored," he added, noting that 2014 was the hottest year on record. The United States is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter after China, and Obama has pledged to reduce US...
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Industry Seeks Obama Carbon Flexibility
2015-04-14 22:43:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Ameren Worries About Lights Going Out The Obama administration's haste to throttle carbon emissions from coal-fired generation is ill-advised and could jeopardize electric power reliability, warns Warner Baxter, Ameren chairman, president and CEO. read more
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President Obama and climate change: 5 things I learned
2015-04-11 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: President Barack Obama took part in a roundtable discussion this week on climate change, refocusing on the issue from a public health vantage point. After the event at Washington's Howard University on Tuesday, Obama sat down with me for a one-on-one interview. I asked him about the science behind climate change and public health and the message he wants the average American to take away, as well as how enforceable his action plan is. Here are five things I learned: 1. College was an eye-opener....
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Why Obama linked climate change to his daughters asthma
2015-04-10 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: YOU HEAR THAT? Its President Obama dropping another climate gauntlet. The core of the presidents announcements late Tuesday was a set of initiatives meant to track, mitigate, and inform the public about the dangers of diseases exacerbated by human-caused global warming. But the vehicle for these policies was in its own way even more interesting: an anecdote about his daughter Malias childhood struggles with asthma. Malia had asthma when she was 4, and because we had good health insurance,...
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Obama: Daughter's asthma attack made climate change personal
2015-04-08 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that his push to address climate change has been partly influenced by a frightening moment when his daughter Malia had an asthma attack as a 4-year-old. What I can relate to is the fear a parent has, when your 4-year-old daughter comes up to you and says, Daddy, Im having trouble breathing. The fright you feel is terrible, the president said on ABCs Good Morning America Wednesday. And if we can make sure that our responses to...
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