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Industry Concerned About EPA's Proposed Emissions Regulations
2014-06-04 09:51:00| OGI
Proposed regulations would cut coal use by 25% and increase natural gas use by 35% in six years.
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China plans to limit carbon emissions from 2016, top government adviser says
2014-06-04 01:00:00| Power Technology
China will limit its total carbon emissions from 2016, China's Advisory Committee on Climate Change chairman He Jiankun said.
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China To Limit Carbon Emissions for First Time
2014-06-03 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, will limit its total emissions for the first time by the end of this decade, according to a top government advisor. He Jiankun, chairman of China's Advisory Committee on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing on Tuesday that an absolute cap on carbon emissions will be introduced. "The government will use two ways to control CO2 emissions in the next five-year plan, by intensity and an absolute cap," Reuters reported He as saying. Though...
Obama plan to reduce carbon pollution could see states increase emissions
2014-06-03 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama's plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants places widely different burdens on the states, and in some cases allows states to increase not reduce emissions, according to early analyses of the new rules. The new rules would require only modest effort from heavy coal states such as Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky while requiring big cuts from Texas, Louisiana, and New York, according to an analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance research company. The Bloomberg...
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One Weird Trick Will Help You Cut Carbon Emissions Overnight
2014-06-03 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Just like that, we're already halfway to our new goal of reducing global warming pollution from power plants. On Monday morning, President Obama announced a new target for carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants: a 30 percent reduction by 2030. The action is as significant as (and possibly greater than) Obama's previous steps to significantly upgrade fuel efficiency from cars and trucks, and may help deliver a fatal blow to the coal industry. But by choosing a baseline year of 2005...
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