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The US plan to cut emissions: What you need to know
2014-06-02 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The US has just taken its first significant step towards cutting its greenhouse gas emissions. It has set targets to cut carbon emission from existing power plants. Forget all the gobbledegook: we'll explain what today's announcement really means. Sorry, what has happened? Last year, US president Barack Obama asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to come up with a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. The agency has just presented that plan. It says that by...
Cutting Carbon Emissions Best Way to Combat Global Warming, Study Says
2014-06-02 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Green technology and sustainability efforts are all well and good, but a new UCLA report says that the best way to combat global warming is to cut carbon emissions, coinciding with the Obama administration's new proposal to reduce such emissions. "We found that climate engineering doesn't offer a perfect option," study leader Daniela Cusack said in a UCLA news release. "The perfect option is reducing emissions. We have to cut down the amount of emissions we're putting into the atmosphere if, in...
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EPA Sets Ambitious Goal to Cut Existing Powerplants' CO2 Emissions
2014-06-02 20:24:27| ENR.com: Headline News
States will play a key role in carrying out the regulation, through implementation plans due by June 2016 that are tailored to their circumstances.
EPA's climate change proposal focuses on emissions from power plants
2014-06-02 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: A new proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns the spotlight on emissions from the energy sector, proposing that power companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. As Gina McCarthy, administrator for the EPA, explains in the video above, it's an attempt to give states a flexible path to reaching the lofty goal instead of a one-size-fits-all approach. "The flexibility of our Clean Power Plan affords states the choices that...
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ICCT-sponsored study of in-use testing of 3 Tier2-Bin5, CA LEV-II light-duty diesels finds wide variation of emissions against the limits
2014-06-02 13:30:39| Green Car Congress
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