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Foes of Obama climate policy prepare battle over cost of carbon
2013-08-21 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three months ago, the Obama administration made a little-noticed but potentially pivotal move in the stepped-up fight against climate change: it boosted the U.S. government's official estimate of the future economic damage caused by carbon pollution. After its first review, a panel of technical experts from 11 government agencies raised the so-called "social cost of carbon," known as SCC. The measure is used by many arms of the U.S. government to determine the financial benefits of new regulations...
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Obama unleashes climate change Twitter rampage
2013-08-14 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Barack Obama is using his second term to take a hard line on climate change. He has delivered speeches in sweltering heat, waged war with sceptical Republicans over the future of the Environmental Protection Agency, and raised the hopes of campaigners that he might reject the Keystone XL Pipeline. But last night, he cemented his commitment to fighting climate change in the only way that really matters: a no-holds-barred rampage on Twitter. It`s unclear whether the President personally took...
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Obama Climate Change Strategy: Politically Realistic or Strategy for Disaster?
2013-07-28 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Real News Network: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. On June 25, President Obama made a speech announcing his new climate change policies. Was his strategy a guarantee of climate change disaster, or a reasonable, modest, measured approach, and in fact the only one that's actually politically possible? Well, we're going to debate that today. But first let's see what President Obama said. Here's a little clip. ~~~ BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: I refuse to condemn...
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Obama climate plan sounds good, but needs urgency
2013-07-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTPost: Much of President Obama's comprehensive new Climate Action Plan and energy policy is admirable and high-minded, but the eloquence masks some darker unspoken truths. The climate plan begins, ". . . we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave them a planet that is not polluted and damaged." The speech then echoes this theme. We must act now, "as caretakers of the future," on behalf of "our children and our children's children." The president graphically depicts the price Americans are...
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Republicans propose limiting Obama climate plan in budget
2013-07-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: House Republicans proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agencys budget by a third and denying funds for a key part of President Barack Obamas plan to combat global warming. The House Appropriations committees panel that oversees the EPA will consider cutting $2.8 billion from the agencys 2014 budget, and prohibit the administration from spending on greenhouse-gas rules for power plants, the centerpiece of Obamas climate plan. The budget for the year starting Oct. 1, which will get a...
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