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GOP chairman intensifies fight with White House environmental panel
2015-12-21 23:48:27| Waste Management - Topix.net
Sen. James Inhofe said Monday that he still hasn't received information he requested last month from a White House environmental advisory panel. Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has questioned whether the White House's Council on Environmental Quality is allowed to continue operating since the Senate has not recently confirmed a full-time head for the panel.
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Obama Insists Climate Deal Will Outlast GOP 'Climate Denial'
2015-12-21 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: With a Paris climate agreement just over a week old, President Obama is singling out the GOP on climate change. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, the president lambasted Republicans, whom he views as excessively contrarian on the issue. "The Republican Party in the United States is perhaps literally the only major party in the developed world that is still engaging in climate denial," he said. Here's his explanation for calling the GOP's stance an outlier on climate, even compared with...
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GOP hopefuls ignore climate change
2015-12-21 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Albany Herald: Amazingly, tellingly, the last Republican debate included not a single question about one of the most ambitious international agreements in civilized history the recently concluded Paris accord on climate change. Signed by nearly 200 countries, including the United States, the agreement attempts to moderate a threat to human existence: the warming of the planet. But there was barely a mention of climate change on that debate stage. Not only didnt the moderators consider it worthy of a question,...
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Obama rebuffs GOP attempt to kill Clean Power Plan
2015-12-19 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KGW: President Obama has vetoed attempts by the Republican-controlled Congress to kill the Clean Power Plan that's a cornerstone of his climate change initiatives, the White House announced Saturday. "The Clean Power Plan is a tremendously important step in the fight against global climate change," Obama said in a veto message signed late Friday. Reversing those regulations "not only threatens ongoing progress toward cleaner energy, but would also eliminate public health and other benefits" in reducing...
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Obama: GOP is the 'only major party in advanced world' to deny climate change
2015-12-18 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: arack Obama chided Republicans on Friday for standing apart from every other rightwing party in the developed world by denying the science of climate change. Obama runs wild with Bear Grylls to promote action on climate change Read more In a confident defence of the Paris climate deal agreed by nearly 200 nations last weekend, Obama predicted that Republican opposition to the accord and the denial of climate change itself will not be sustainable. The American Republican party is the only major...
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