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Obama climate plan: Bold, but will China go along?
2013-06-26 15:38:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: As President Obama unveils sweeping policies to address global climate change in a speech at Georgetown University Tuesday, his focus is on curbing power plant emissions at home and boosting US investment in efficiency and clean energy. But climate change is a global problem, and the atmosphere, as they say, doesn't care where the carbon comes from. And whatever the United States does, the fate of global warming lies in the hands of China, India, and much of the developing world. China's growing...
Obama and Congress must fight climate change like they do terrorism
2013-06-26 15:38:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: For a man with his hands tied, President Obama is offering a decent enough plan to fight climate change. In a speech today, hes expected to announce federal regulation of greenhouse gases at existing coal-fired power plants, increased energy standards for buildings and appliances, and greater development of renewable energy on federal lands. These are moves that he can try without approval from Congress. And while they are halfway measures, they are better than no measures. But imagine if his...
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Barack Obama unveils strict new US climate change measures to Congress
2013-06-26 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Facing down a recalcitrant US Congress as well as a sceptical American public, President Barack Obama has unveiled a swathe of measures designed finally to put his administrations back into tackling global warming, notably imposing strict new curbs on carbon dioxide emissions from electricity-generating plants. The measures, which can be implemented without recourse to any votes by Congress, had been widely expected and were harshly criticised by the presidents Republican critics even before he...
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Obama offers plan to fight climate dangers
2013-06-26 08:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: President Obama on Tuesday unveiled a comprehensive blueprint to combat rising seas and more frequent severe weather caused by climate change, including a long-awaited promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant at existing power plants. The 21-page plan would expand production of solar and wind energy and includes billions of dollars in loan guarantees to develop cleaner fossil-fuel and other energy technologies. It also funds new efforts to armor communities against flooding, wildfires,...
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Climate change: Obama announces new curbs on existing power plants
2013-06-26 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Seeking to propel the US faster into the fray on curbing climate change, President Obama laid out an aggressive plan Tuesday to sharply curb smokestack emissions of existing coal-fired power plants and to double wind, solar, and other renewable energy production from todays levels. Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans including...
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