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Obama finds unlikely ally in climate change battle: China
2013-07-21 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama has stumbled on an unusual partner in his quest to combat climate change: China. The world`s two biggest emitters of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are finding common cause in efforts to reduce global warming, cooperation the U.S. says could clear the way for other developing, heavily polluting nations such as India and Brazil to get on board, too. While skeptics question whether either nation will follow through on lofty aspirations, the budding agreements are nevertheless...
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GOP senator presses Obama to defend climate change plan at hearing
2013-07-15 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) sent a letter to President Obama on Monday urging him to send an administration official to a hearing this week and defend his proposals to address climate change. Vitter said hes skeptical Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will maintain pledges to make the White House testify at a later hearing. To date, Chairman Barbara Boxer has refused to invite any government witnesses to participate in this hearing. Although she...
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Obama plan gives US leverage in climate talks with China, official says
2013-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A top International Energy Agency (IEA) official said the White House global warming plan that includes carbon standards for power plants would help provide the U.S. leverage in climate negotiations with China. It shows the U.S. is willing to take action, and China, I think, is willing to take action if the U.S. does. I think it is a very positive step, said Richard Jones, the IEAs deputy executive director who was previously a senior State Department diplomat, on Tuesday at an energy and climate...
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Obama climate change initiatives: A decidedly mixed bag
2013-07-08 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama, not content to have added thousands of pages of regulation and red tape to the federal code in his first term, recently announced that Americas energy and industrial sectors need to be saddled with new regulations including limiting greenhouse gases from new and existing power plants. Other initiatives include new energy efficiency and renewable energy mandates and a continuation of the costly and inefficient renewable fuel standards. This couldnt have come at a worse time. America...
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Obama climate change plan is 'advocacy for fracked gas,' says 'Gasland' director
2013-07-05 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
msnbc: You may have missed it with all the news coming from the Supreme Court, but President Obama last week announced a plan to address climate change, pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to 17% below their 2005 levels. Part of the presidents plan involves moving away from coal and investing in natural gas, which he described as cleaner and safer. Not all environmental advocates view the plan as a step forward. This plan is advocacy for fracked gas all over the United States and all...
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