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Recession Gets Credit For Reduced CO2 Emissions
2015-08-05 03:01:00| Chemical Processing
A bust economy, rather than a boom in natural gas use, is the reason CO2 emissions dropped 11% between 2007 and 2013.
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Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal To Reduce Greenhouse Emissions From US Power Plants
2015-08-03 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama revealed the final version of his clean power plan to dramatically cut emissions from US power plants on Monday, calling it a moral obligation. Speaking at the White House, Obama said the unprecedented carbon dioxide limits are the "the single most important step" America has ever taken to fight climate change, while warning that the problem was so large hat the world must get it right quickly or it may become impossible to reverse. "There is such a thing as being too...
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Obama's new emissions rules likely to help shape White House race
2015-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Over the next 15 years, President Obama's emissions plan aims to sharply reduce the use of coal and ramp up the use of wind and solar power. Over the next 15 years, President Obama's emissions plan aims to sharply reduce the use of coal and ramp up the use of wind and solar power. With Monday's release of landmark rules to combat global warming, President Obama is putting into place what probably will be the last piece of his ambitious second-term agenda -- one that highlights deep divisions...
Obama White House says carbon emissions cuts legal under Clean Air Act
2015-08-03 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The White House insisted on Sunday it was on strong legal footing as it unveiled details of ambitious carbon-reduction plans that are likely to be fiercely opposed by coal-burning Republican states. Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), told reporters the Obama administrations goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants by 32% between 2005 and 2030 kept squarely within the four corners of the Clean Air Act. The US supreme court determined...
Obama's climate plan seeks to slash emissions from power plants
2015-08-02 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The White House said it will launch the first ever rule on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants, a plan that opponents in the coal industry and their political allies will fight in the courts. In a fact sheet issued on Sunday, the White House said President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan will cut emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The plan cuts emissions about 9 percent deeper than a last year's draft, the White House said. But it gives states two years more to cut...
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