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Indiana will defy Obama on climate change plan
2015-06-25 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Indiana will not comply with President Barack Obamas plan to battle climate change by requiring reductions in emissions from coal-fired power plants, Republican Gov. Mike Pence said Wednesday. The proposal as currently written, known as the Clean Power Plan, will make Indiana electricity more expensive and less reliable and hurt economic growth in Indiana and across the nation, Pence wrote in a letter to Obama. The plan targets pollution from the coal-fired power plants that Indiana relies on....
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Obama tweets it up on climate change and Arctic drilling
2015-05-29 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: President Obama recently joined Twitter (presumably so that racists can speak to him directly from the comfort of anonymity. Now thats serving the constituents!) His first significant act as @POTUS was to hold a chat on climate change. This looks like considerably more preparation and manpower than the rest of us devote to tweeting, but it`s nice to see that, in the end, he hunches over the laptop like the rest of us. Ready to answer your questions on climate change. Let's do this! #AskPOTUS...
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John McCain mocks Obama for calling climate change a threat as Isis advances
2015-05-24 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Senator John McCain on Sunday attacked the president for citing climate change as a threat to national security, suggesting that the Obama administrations focus on environmental issues was detracting from the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. The comments by the Senate armed services committee chairman were part of a rotating blame game over the Memorial Day weekend about who is responsible for recent gains by Isis fighters, who last week took control of the ancient Syrian...
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Barack Obama vs. Jeb Bush: The Climate Change Edition
2015-05-21 20:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: To President Barack Obama, climate change is a threat to national security. To Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, it's not clear how much humans are to blame for the Earth's fluctuating climate. In his ongoing effort to combat climate change, Obama on Wednesday warned the graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy that denying or refusing to act on the divisive issue is negligence and a dereliction of duty. "It undermines the readiness of our forces," he told the cadets...
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In Coast Guard commencement address, Obama buoys climate change
2015-05-21 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: President Barack Obama used his commencement speech to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut on Wednesday, to focus on a topic he called an immediate national security threat: climate change. "Climate change will impact every country on the planet. No nation is immune," the President told the 218 graduating cadets. "Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military...
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