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Obama Administration Tackles Climate Change
2013-07-02 00:05:00| Beef
David Bennett for Delta Farm Press While sidestepping the debate over whether climate change is man-made, President Obama recently unveiled a series of proposals aimed at ameliorating the effects of warming temperatures. read more
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Obama: Act on climate change "before it's too late"
2013-06-29 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: On Tuesday, President Obama unveiled a national plan to reduce carbon emissions and combat the effects of climate change by restricting pollution from power plants, improving the resiliency of America's infrastructure to guard against extreme weather, and leading a global effort to transition to clean energy. On Saturday, he again touted that plan and stressed the need for action in his weekly address, warning, "The question is not whether we need to act - the question is whether we will have the...
Obama says climate change is make-or-break issue
2013-06-29 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is trying to frame climate change as a make-or-break political issue, urging Americans to vote only for those who will protect the country from environmental harm. He says people in the United States already are paying a price for climate change, including in lost lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. ''If you agree with me, I'll need you to act,'' Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. ''Remind everyone who represents you, at every level of government,...
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U.N. climate chief welcomes Obama plan, wants U.S. energy czar
2013-06-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama's new pledges on curbing carbon emissions drew a cautious welcome from the U.N. climate change chief on Thursday, but she said no country was doing enough and proposed the White House appoint an energy czar to coordinate reforms. Obama revived his stalled climate change agenda on Tuesday, promising new rules to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and moves to support renewable energy. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said countries...
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Obama administration points to effects of climate change in N.J
2013-06-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NorthJersey: From tiny ticks that cause Lyme disease to the massive devastation of Superstorm Sandy, the Obama administration tried Wednesday to highlight the effect that climate change is already having in New Jersey to promote the presidents plan to fight it. Its a local problem impacting real people, said Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, who is overseeing federal Sandy recovery efforts. Climate change is not rhetoric, it is real. To emphasize the point, a White House news...
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