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In Australia, an uphill battle to rein in the power of coal
2013-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The lucky country, as Australians call their homeland, sits on enormous deposits of natural resources: uranium, zinc, iron ore, lead, bauxite, copper, gold, manganese, and nickel. But among its greatest assets are the worlds fourth-largest coal reserves -- an estimated 76.4 billion tons, or 9 percent of global reserves. Coal mining has powered the Australian economy for decades. In recent years, thanks to the seemingly insatiable energy appetite of China and other Asian countries, Australias...
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Ruling aims to rein in biomass plant pollution
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
State: In the forests of Allendale County is a wood-burning power plant with the capacity to release tons of pollution that many other industrial plants must control. Under construction for most of the past two years, the Allendale plant is one of an estimated 20 wood-burning plants nationally that took advantage of a 2011 federal decision exempting biomass factories from new greenhouse gas regulations. But a federal court recently threw out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's exemption, a...
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Obama To Tap Executive Powers To Rein In Carbon Emissions
2013-06-25 11:15:00| OGI
The president proposes new regulations and an end to subsidies for Big Oil.
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Obama Is Getting Ready to Rein In Power Plant Pollution
2013-06-20 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Atlantic Wire: Hours afterpromisingin Berlin that action was coming on climate change, Barack Obama is preparing to make what could be the biggest environmental move of his presidency. White House officials say the President is planning to implement new regulations that would significantly reduce carbon emissions on existing power plants. The plan -which was hinted at in The Los Angeles Times earlier this week - involves instituting new rules through the Environmental Protection Agency, which doesn't require the...
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Global warming: Not too late to rein in climate change, group says
2013-06-11 01:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Over the next seven years, aggressive efforts to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, refineries, and pipelines, and especially to boost energy efficiency, could still keep the world on track to meet its goal of holding increases in global average temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Whats more, those efforts need not come at the expense of a profitable energy sector, a concern that has fueled opposition to international agreements on curbing emissions and...
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