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New EPA Chief Targets Climate Change

2013-07-31 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: Newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on Tuesday pledged action on climate change during the Obama administrations remaining years, saying the concern is as much economic as it is environmental. Climate change will not be resolved overnight, but it will be engaged over the next three years; that I can promise you, McCarthy said during her speech at Harvard Law School. McCarthy, confirmed to head the federal agency on July 19 after a bruising Senate review...

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EPA chief: preventing climate change the opportunity of a lifetime

2013-07-30 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: President Barack Obama's top environmental official wasted no time Tuesday taking on opponents of the administration's plan to crack down on global warming pollution. In her first speech as the head of EPA, Gina McCarthy told an audience gathered at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that curbing climate-altering pollution will spark business innovation, grow jobs and strengthen the economy. The message was classic Obama, who has long said that the environment and the economy aren't...

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New EPA chief: Climate controls will help economy

2013-07-30 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: President Barack Obamas top environmental official wasted no time Tuesday taking on opponents of the administrations plan to crack down on global warming pollution. In her first speech as the head of EPA, Gina McCarthy told an audience gathered at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., that curbing climate-altering pollution will spark business innovation, grow jobs and strengthen the economy. The message was classic Obama, who has long said that the environment and the economy arent in conflict...

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U.N. climate chief welcomes Obama plan, wants U.S. energy czar

2013-06-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: President Barack Obama's new pledges on curbing carbon emissions drew a cautious welcome from the U.N. climate change chief on Thursday, but she said no country was doing enough and proposed the White House appoint an energy czar to coordinate reforms. Obama revived his stalled climate change agenda on Tuesday, promising new rules to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and moves to support renewable energy. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said countries...

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