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Obama climate push targets America's coal-fired power plants
2013-06-26 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Impatient over congressional inaction, President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan to battle global warming that takes aim at a big source of heat-trapping gases: America's coal-fired power plants
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Obama opens 2nd-term drive against climate change
2013-06-26 00:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Appealing for courageous action "before it's too late," President Barack Obama launched a major second-term drive Tuesday to combat climate change and secure a safer planet, bypassing Congress as he sought to set a cornerstone of his legacy. Abandoning his suit jacket under a sweltering sun at Georgetown University, Obama issued a dire warning about the environment: Temperatures are rising, sea level is climbing, the Arctic ice is melting and the world is doing far too little to stop it. Obama...
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Obama launches plan to fight climate change in US
2013-06-25 22:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Climate change just got personal - or at least, that's how President Barack Obama is selling the idea of taking action on climate change to the American people. Launching his long-awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: "Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you," he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC. With the Republican majority in...
Obama Unveils Climate Change Strategy: End of Line for U.S. Coal Power
2013-06-25 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: President Obama launched his climate change policy effort Tuesday in a speech that invoked Hurricane Sandy's assault on New York, the drought's devastation in the Midwest, and a recent heat wave in Alaska. "Americans are already paying the price of inaction," he said. "Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all humankind." "As a president, as a father and as an American, I'm here to say, 'We need to act,'" said Obama in a speech Tuesday at Georgetown University in Washington,...
Obama Reveals Bold New Climate Change Plan
2013-06-25 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious new plan today (June 25) to curtail U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as part of a far-reaching climate change strategy that he said, "should send a strong signal to the world that America intends to take bold action to reduce carbon pollution." Obama outlined the policy objectives -- which focus on reducing the amount of carbon pollution in the United States, preparing communities to withstand the effects of a warming planet, and leading global efforts...
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