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Mass., eight other states to sharply cut power plant carbon dioxide emissions
2013-02-07 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Massachusetts and eight other Northeast states are nearly halving the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit - a dramatic reduction that is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to the state while combatting global warming. The revision of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative agreement comes four years after the nine-state program first put in place a cap aimed at curbing emissions of the key heat-trapping gas in order to slow manmade climate change. "This...
First-time reports from industry reveal massive methane emissions
2013-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: U.S. EPA's addition of oil, gas and coal methane emissions to its online greenhouse gas tracking tool revealed an 82.6-million-metric-ton increase in carbon dioxide equivalents over numbers from the previous year, when those figures were not available. EPA published data yesterday for 2011, adding 12 new sources from the reporting program since last year's 2010 figures. Although carbon dioxide is a much more abundant greenhouse gas than methane, the latter makes a far bigger impact on climate...
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New Report Identifies Pathways for U.S. Administration to Reduce Emissions
2013-02-06 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: WRI just released a new report that answers the important question: Is the United States on track to meet its climate change commitments? The report, Can the U.S. Get there from Here? Using Existing Federal Laws and State Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, looks at whether the U.S. Administration--without congressional action--can meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. (This is a goal the United States committed to in 2009.) According...
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Barack Obama 'cannot cut emissions without decisive new actions'
2013-02-06 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama cannot deliver on his promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17% without decisive new actions, a report warned on Wednesday. America's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen under Obama, as power plants burn less coal. But the country will still fall short of his commitment to a 17% reduction by the end of the decade, the report from the World Resources Institute said. The president offered the 17% cut at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. But if Obama wants to make good...
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U.S. needs additional steps to reduce emissions - World Resources
2013-02-06 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States will not be able to meet its goal of slashing greenhouse gases 17 percent by 2020 from a 2005 baseline without taking additional steps to target emissions, a new report found. The economic downturn and an increase in supplies of cheap natural gas, which has displaced coal in some power plants, have slashed carbon emissions but are only temporary trends, according to the World Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on global environmental issues WRI recently shared...
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