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EU expected to trim environment ambitions
2014-01-22 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: The EU is expected on Wednesday to take a step back from the ambitious environmental policies that have made it a global green leader when it announces a new package of climate and energy targets for 2030. The new goals will replace existing 2020 targets requiring member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels, and generate 20 per cent of their energy from renewable sources such as wind farms and solar plants. Brussels made both these targets mandatory when they were...
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Canadian environment groups challenge oil pipeline approvals
2014-01-17 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A coalition of environmental groups on Friday launched a legal challenge to the preliminary approval last month for Enbridge Inc's C$7.9 billion ($7.21 billion) Northern Gateway pipeline project, filing suit to prevent Canada's government from using the approval in its final decision on the line. The groups are objecting to the approval granted Northern Gateway last month by the Joint Review Panel. The panel, which held 18 months of hearings into Northern Gateway, concluded the project posed little...
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Administration Is Seen Retreating on Environment in Talks on Pacific Trade
2014-01-15 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration is retreating from previous demands of strong international environmental protections in order to reach agreement on a sweeping Pacific trade deal that is a pillar of President Obama's strategic shift to Asia, according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks, environmentalists and people close to the contentious trade talks. The negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would be one of the world's biggest trade agreements, have exposed deep rifts over environmental...
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United States: Christie administration bridge-blocking stunt was bad for environment
2014-01-13 04:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As you`ve no doubt heard by now, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christies (R) administration shut down two access lanes to the George Washington Bridge toward New York City in September, causing local traffic in adjacent Fort Lee, N.J., to back up for hours. The media has focused, understandably, on the irritation, inconvenience, and even danger caused by the traffic snarls. Kids were late to school, adults were late to work, emergency responders couldnt get through the traffic, and one woman waiting for...
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Australian environment minister is totally, shamefully negligent with "direct action" policy
2014-01-12 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Moderate conservative that he is, Australian environment minister Greg Hunt ran on a platform of "lean" government, where private businesses "are the true creators of wealth", individuals need to take personal responsibility for their actions, and the former Labor government's carbon price was a "non-delivery of an invisible substance". It was a surprise then, to learn last week, that Greg Hunt wants to give $3 billion to big polluting companies to reduce their emissions, but have no sanctions...
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