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Crib notes: Obama, Modi primed for climate and nuclear talks
2016-06-06 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Narendra Modi lands in the US this week for a 7 June meeting with US president Barack Obama, likely the final bilateral between the pair before Obama leaves office. The bromance between the pair has been remarkable, say observers. Security, defence, trade along with energy and climate change are set to dominate talks between the worlds second and fourth largest greenhouse gas emitters. India wants to join the Nuclear Suppliers Club, which determines rules for how nuclear technologies are...
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Obama climate plan delayed, Trump slams carbon tax rumour
2016-05-17 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Hopes US president Barack Obamas climate plan could be enforced before he leaves office are fading fast after a court delayed legal arguments for three months. Such is the importance of the case, the District of Columbia appeals court determined it needed to be assessed by a full panel of 11, rather than the allotted three, judges. Legal arguments over the Clean Power Plan will now be heard on 27 September rather than 2 June. US legal experts say whatever the outcome, the Supreme Court is...
Obama admin defends climate rule as 'eminently reasonable'
2016-03-29 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Lawyers for the Obama administration defended its controversial landmark climate rule for power plants in court Monday as a completely reasonable interpretation of the authority Congress gave it. The Justice Department is trying to answer complaints in a federal appeals court that accuse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of violating the plain letter of the Clean Air Act last year when it made final the carbon dioxide regulation for power plants. In their opening volley last month against...
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Bin Laden urged Obama to tackle climate catastrophe
2016-03-02 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Osama bin Laden said America was better off waging a war on climate change than on Islam, according to documents made public on Tuesday. The letter was included in materials seized in a US raid on his secret compound in Pakistan in May 2011, attributed to the Al Qaeda mastermind by intelligence officials. the world should put its efforts into attempting to reduce the release of gases, read the undated, unsigned letter to an aide, Reuters reported. This is a struggle between two of the...
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Obama devotes weekly radio address to climate change
2016-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: U.S. President Barack Obama says climate change is "one of the greatest challenges of our time," but America is standing up to the challenge. "Today, clean power from the wind or the sun is actually cheaper in many communities than dirtier, conventional power," the president said Saturday in his weekly address. "Over the last seven years, we've made historic investments in clean energy that helped private sector companies create tens of thousands of good jobs," the president said. In an...
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