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Dems urge Obama to get climate agreement from Chinese President Xi
2013-06-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obama should press Chinese President Xi Jinping to curb emissions of a short-lived, but highly potent heat-trapping pollutant when the leaders meet this week in California, a group of House and Senate Democrats wrote Wednesday to Obama. The Democratic lawmakers said Obama should push Xi to join an effort led by the United States, Canada and Mexico to slash production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). We encourage you to raise HFCs with President Xi and to ask for his support...
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Obama Campaign Group Targets Climate Change
2013-05-28 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: While President Obama's reelection campaign was almost completely silent on the issue of global warming, Organizing for Action, the advocacy group tooled from his 2012 campaign machine, has launched a campaign designed to build support for the president's climate-change agenda. The multipronged, multiyear effort aims to inject climate change into the heart of national politics--and make it an election issue as well. Conventional wisdom held that the issue is a loser on the trail, but former...
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Obama Group's Climate Push Puts President Under Scrutiny
2013-05-23 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Organizing for Action - a group that formed out of President Obama's re-election campaign - has posted five tweets in the past week about climate change using the @BarackObama Twitter account. OFA's mission is to promote the president's agenda on a wide range of issues, from guns to immigration. But now that it's focused on global warming, there's some tension with the agenda inside the administration. This week, Organizing for Action unveiled a website urging supporters to "Call Out the Climate...
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Climate activists to protest at Obama groups climate events
2013-05-23 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Barack Obamas advocacy group, Organizing for Action, has been calling out Republican climate skeptics in Congress, but climate activists are not impressed. They`re planning to crash OFA events and push the group to fight the Keystone XL pipeline. 350.org and CREDO Action, the political arm of the company CREDO Mobile, are leading the charge. OFA is bracing for it. From BuzzFeed: OFA circulated a set of talking points to its members for use in dealing with unruly activists. The document, obtained...
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Obama climate agenda faces Supreme Court reckoning
2013-05-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups, along with states such as Texas and Virginia, have filed nine petitions in recent weeks asking the justices to review four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. If the court were...
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