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EUs Attempt to Curb Carbon Emissions Limps On
2013-02-23 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The European Union's failing carbon market has been thrown a lifeline by the European Parliament's Environment Committee. It has backed the Commission's plan to prop up the price of a ton of carbon by withdrawing an oversupply of credits from the market. Carbon trading is one of the major EU policies designed to combat climate change. But a combination of successful lobbying by industry bodies, political interference and lack of economic growth has brought the scheme close to collapse, so that...
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Conflict about historic responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions
2013-02-22 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions should be allocated based on countries' historic responsibility for the emissions. This logic was recognized early on in climate negotiations. But the countries are still disputing how it should be interpreted and applied. When the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992, "historic responsibility" was established -- that is, the countries that release the most greenhouse gases also have a greater responsibility...
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Poll: Climate change a priority, but GOP, Dems split on renewables, emissions
2013-02-21 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: About one-third of people in the United States say action on climate change is "essential" in 2013, according to a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. Thirty-four percent of people in the poll called taking action on climate change essential this year." Thirty-nine percent said climate change needs to be addressed in the next few years, while 19 percent said nothing should be done and 8 percent had no opinion. Republicans who were polled rejected two major options for mitigating...
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Fracking Emissions Get Review After EPA Watchdog Report
2013-02-21 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Federal environmental regulators said they will more closely study air emissions from hydraulic fracturing after the agencys auditor concluded current information is insufficient to make policy decisions. The Environmental Protection Agency has already begun an inter-agency study of methane, air toxic and other pollutants released when oil and gas are tapped using the process, called fracking, Gina McCarthy, the head of the agencys air office, said in a letter to the Inspector Generals office,...
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California ARB to hold public workshop on new GHG and emissions standards for heavy-duty engines and vehicles
2013-02-21 12:30:39| Green Car Congress
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