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Emissions impossible: Did spies sink key climate deal?
2014-02-04 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The revelations of the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, are an ongoing embarrassment for the US government. From Angry Birds to the mobile phone of Angela Merkel to the banal conversations of millions of people, the scale of the National Secutiry Agency's spying activities knew few boundaries. But can the world's inability to fix the problem of global warming also be laid at the spooks' door? Wind your mind back to December 2009, when world leaders converged on Copenhagen to cook up a global...
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Midwest Energy Emissions Corp Announces Major Commercial Commitment For Mercury Emissions Control
2014-02-03 02:52:23| pollutiononline Home Page
Midwest Energy Emissions Corporation(OTCQB:MEEC)("ME2C")today announced that it has received firm commitments from a major U.S. power producer for multi-year, mercury pollution control for MATS compliance
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Want to cut Arctic warming in half? Curb emissions now, study says
2014-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Global warming is changing the Arctic so quickly that experts say we should expect an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer within just a few decades. But a group of scientists says there is a way to spare the Arctic from more disastrous climate change. In a new paper, they say that reducing global carbon emissions now could cut Arctic warming nearly in half by century's end. Society already has released enough carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere that over the next few decades temperatures...
Keystone XL review 'say pipeline will not appreciably increase emissions'
2014-01-31 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US State Department is poised to issue an environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that will likely say the project will not appreciably increase carbon emissions, sources said late Thursday, forcing President Barack Obama closer to a tough decision. Rumours swept through Washington late Thursday that the long-delayed review of the 1,179-mile (1,900-km) pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Nebraska would finally be released as soon as Friday. "The Environmental Impact...
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Korea aims for 30 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020
2014-01-30 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco-Business: The Korean government aims to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent from projected levels by 2020 to hold back global warming, the Ministry of Environment said Tuesday. The plan is aimed at reducing 233 million carbon dioxide equivalent tonnes by 2020, a 30 per cent cut from the expected 2020 BAU level of 776 million tCO2e, according to the ministry officials. The target was originally set in 2011 by the former administration of President Lee Myung-bak. The officials said...
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