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Barriers to 100% Clean Energy are Social and Political, Not Technical or Economic
2015-11-20 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As world leaders prepare to gather in Paris for a landmark climate summit, a new analysis from Stanford University and University of California researchers lays out roadmaps for 139 countries, including the worlds major greenhouse gas emitters, to switch to 100 percent clean, renewable energy generated from wind, water and sunlight for all purposes by 2050. Mark Z. Jacobson, a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and director of the schools Atmosphere/EnergyProgram,...
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DOE Approves New England Clean Power Link
2015-11-19 03:12:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the New England Clean Power Link transmission line project. read more
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Clean Power Plan Rules Fail to Address Electric Co-ops Concerns
2015-11-18 17:44:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association today participated in a public hearing on proposals for implementing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Clean Power Plan. read more
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Amid record global temperatures, Senate votes to block Obamas Clean Power Plan
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Even as new data suggest that October of 2015 was a record-breaking hot month -- with a 1.04 degree Celsius global temperature anomaly, the biggest monthly departure from average ever seen in NASA records -- Senate Republicans led a vote to block President Obamas flagship climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, and also another major EPA energy regulation of new power plants. [Record crushing October heat keeps Earth on track for hottest year in 2015] The largely symbolic votes, which have prompted...
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Coal pleads its case against Clean Power Plan to state lawmakers
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Things were already pretty bad for Pennsylvania`s coal industry, and the EPA`s new Clean Power Plan will make things worse. That`s the message from industry to a joint hearing of the state`s House and Senate coal caucuses on Tuesday. "We talk about the perfect storm, what we are in the midst of is the perfect nightmare for coal," said Emily Medine, a coal consultant with Energy Ventures Analysis. Medine said the coal industry has taken a hit from low natural gas prices, which has displaced...
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