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Administration Presses Ahead With Limits on Emissions From Power Plants
2013-09-19 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A year after a plan by President Obama to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants set off angry opposition, the administration will announce on Friday that it is not backing down from a confrontation with the coal industry and will press ahead with enacting the first federal carbon limits on the nation's power companies. The proposed regulations, to be announced at the National Press Club by Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are an aggressive...
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Halve emissions to avoid dangerous climate change
2013-09-18 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: WE'RE in trouble but there is a way out. It is still possible to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 2 °C, but only if we part with some cash. To halt dangerous climate change, we'll need to reduce annual global emissions of carbon dioxide from the 30 gigatonnes released today to 15 gigatonnes by 2050. That's a big drop, but it can be done, according to a report from Imperial College London. To cut emissions, fossil fuels need to be replaced with low-carbon energy sources, power...
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Australia Aims to Cut Emissions with Rocks
2013-09-17 17:56:00| Chemical Processing
Method transforms carbon dioxide emissions into carbonate rock.
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New Fracking Emissions Study Brings Out The Usual Suspects
2013-09-17 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: A Cabot Oil and Gas natural gas drill stands at a hydraulic fracturing site on January 18, 2012 in South Montrose, Pennsylvania. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, stimulates gas production by injecting wells with high volumes of chemical-laced water in order to free-up pockets of natural gas below. The process is controversial with critics saying it could poison water supplies, while the natural-gas industry says it's been used safely for decades. While New York State has yet to decide...
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UT Austin team and partners report on extensive measurements of methane emissions during natural gas production
2013-09-17 12:30:54| Green Car Congress
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