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Obama climate change agenda faces first Supreme Court test
2014-02-24 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court considers on Monday whether President Barack Obama's administration overstepped its authority by imposing new regulations to reduce pollution in response to climate change. In a 90-minute oral argument, extended from 60 minutes because many parties are involved, the justices will examine a relatively narrow challenge by industry groups and Republican-leaning states to one aspect of a suite of regulations issued by Obama's Democratic administration in 2009 and 2010. The...
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Obama announces plan for $1bn climate resilience fund
2014-02-18 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: As David Cameron faces mounting calls for an increase in the UK government's funding for climate resilience efforts, US President Barack Obama is moving forward with plans to dramatically increase spending to tackle droughts and floods on the other side of the Atlantic. Obama used a trip to drought-hit California late last week, where over 91 per cent of the state was classified as experiencing severe or exceptional drought, to announce that he will include a new $1bn "climate resilience fund"...
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Kerry State Department Ignored Obama Climate Action Plan
2014-02-17 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In 2009, President Obama made a commitment to reduce U.S. greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020. The Obama administration put this forward as the U.S. share of a global effort to limit climate change to no more than two degrees Celsius - the target scientists tell us may be safe. Achieving this target, which has been unanimously agreed on a global level, is central to the success of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, announced in June of last year. It is therefore shocking to realize that...
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Obama launches climate change fund
2014-02-15 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama announced a new climate change "resiliency fund" in a Friday night speech in drought-struck California. The fund, which would need to be approved by Congress, is intended to help communities dealing with negative weather like drought, wildfires, and floods that are the result of climate change. Obama picked the trip to California to announce the fund proposal, which is to be included in his budget. California is experiencing a drought that is threatening its agriculture producers...
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Obama proposes $1 billion climate protection fund
2014-02-14 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama will Friday propose a $1 billion dollar fund to mitigate the impact of climate change, as he inspects farmland parched by drought in California. He will propose the investment in his 2015 budget that will be released next month -- though it is unclear whether the fund has much prospect of advancing past Republicans on Capitol Hill. "We've always had heat waves, but now the worst ones are longer, and they're hotter," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "We've always...
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