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UN climate change chief praises new US pollution regulations

2014-06-01 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: America's new power plant regulations, due for release on Monday, could unlock stalled negotiations for a global deal on climate change, the United Nations' top climate official said. Christiana Figueres, the UN's top climate change official, said she expects the new power plant rules could spur other big emitters such as China and India to begin taking action on climate change and move forward on reaching a deal by the 2015 deadline. The Environmental Protection Agency will roll out the...

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Regulations 101 -- A primer on EPA's upcoming power plant rule

2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: President Obama's highly anticipated power plant rules have come a long way from a relatively low-profile legal settlement in 2010. Obama is set to unveil a proposed rule that for the first time will limit greenhouse gas emissions from the country's power plants. He officially directed EPA to craft regulations to control greenhouse gases in his Climate Action Plan last year, but the effort to curb the largest chunk of CO2 emissions in the country has been mounting for years. In late 2010, EPA...

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Obamas new climate change regulations will affect Canada

2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Postmedia: U.S. President Barack Obama will release Monday what the White House is billing as a pivotal climate change plan that will lead to massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants. The plan will target the nations 1,600 fossil fuel plants, which together produce about 41 per cent of the nations carbon dioxide emissions. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) predicted the regulations could lead to a 35 per cent reduction in GHG emissions below 2005 levels by 2020. ...

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Heres Why Carbon Regulations EPA Will Announce Monday Important

2014-05-30 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ThinkProgress: On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency will release a first-ever set of regulations to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the country`s existing fleet of power plants. The agency recently issued similar rules for new power plants, which will be finalized next year after a public comment period. The rules for existing plants will undergo a similar process. But before the political storm around the rules begins in earnest, here are the basic points everyone needs to know about why EPA`s carbon...

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