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U.S. Environment Agency Releases First Climate Adaptation Plan
2013-02-12 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publicly released a draft plan on how the department's programmes will adapt to global warming, in a move that could lay additional groundwork for important new emissions rulemaking the agency may announce in coming months. Obama is being urged to set new carbon standards on U.S. power plants, cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by at least a quarter by 2020. Credit: public domain The EPA is tasked with oversight of the...
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