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Obamas Ambitious Global Warming Action Plan
2013-06-25 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: n advance of President Obamas speech Tuesday afternoon laying out his three-pronged plan to cut releases of greenhouse gases and the impacts of global warming, White House officials circulated detailed fact sheets and discussed the plans with journalists, including me, last night. They laid out an impressive array of steps, most of which have long been in the pipeline or anticipated and which can be carried out without congressional approval. The 21-page White House climate action plan is easy...
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Obama to Outline Ambitious Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
2013-06-25 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama will propose a sweeping plan to address climate change on Tuesday, setting ambitious goals and timetables for a series of executive actions to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and prepare the nation for the ravages of a warming planet. The plan, to be announced in a policy address at Georgetown University, is the most far-reaching effort by an American president to address what many experts consider the defining environmental and economic challenge of the 21st century. But it also...
Plan Bay Area: Controversy Swirls Around Ambitious California Attempt To Combat Climate Change
2013-05-26 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marin Independent: The Bay Area will be spewing an additional 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2040 if opponents of a new long-range land-use blueprint for the Bay Area get their way. That estimate -- the equivalent of burning 20,456 tanker trucks of gasoline or 6,664 rail cars of coal -- comes from the environmental impact report for Plan Bay Area, a long-range housing blueprint that has ignited controversy in Marin. A collaboration of four regional government agencies, Plan Bay Area was...
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A gamechanger? Whole Foods' ambitious five-year plan to label genetically modified products
2013-03-24 18:22:08| Grocery - Topix.net
Whole Foods Market recently announced plans to label all genetically engineered foods in its stores by 2018.
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