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Report: Energy Dept. Mismanaged Stimulus-Backed Climate Program
2013-03-27 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: The Energy Departments (DOE) internal watchdog is attacking DOE management of a $1.5-billion stimulus program to help develop technology that captures industrial carbon dioxide emissions. An Office of Inspector General (IG) audit made public Tuesday examines $1.1 billion in funding for 15 projects. The audit notes three project recipients together received $90 million even though reviews of the proposals identified significant financial and/or technical issues. For example, the Department...
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State Dept. Keystone report plays down climate fears
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The State Departments long-awaited environmental report on the Keystone XL pipeline leaves President Barack Obama with no real scientific reason to reject the nations most fiercely debated energy project. The sprawling 2,000-page report, released late Friday afternoon, doesnt issue a clear yea or nay on a sprawling section of pipeline that would traverse from western Canada to Oklahoma. But the reports key takeaways including a conclusion that the project would have no significant impacts...
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Report questions Canada's 'politicization' of climate change policy options
2013-02-19 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The Conservative government has politicized its policy options at a time when harmonized federal and provincial carbon policies are needed to cut emissions as cheaply as possible, says a new report. An increasingly fragmented national approach to carbon policy could result in higher costs, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development. The Conservative decision to go with complex, sector-by-sector regulation of emissions while provinces experiment with market-driven policies...
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Report: Weather satellite gap, climate change among biggest threats facing Federal government
2013-02-15 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Every two years the Government Accountability Office highlights the top 30 challenges facing the Federal government on its "high risk list'. A looming gap in the coverage of weather satellites and climate change are the newest additions to this list says the GAO in a report released Thursday. The satellite risk Polar-orbiting satellites scan the globe in pole-to-pole loops and feed important data into models for weather forecasting. But a gap in their coverage is possible starting as soon as...
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Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration
2013-02-06 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: The United States will struggle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to promised levels by 2020, a report from a prominent think tank warned this week, but the federal government, states and industry already have the means at their disposal to achieve such goals. The report, by the World Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural...
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