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Canadian PM offers Obama possible climate action to secure Keystone deal
2013-09-06 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has written to President Obama to say that he is prepared to work on a joint plan between the two countries to reduce carbon emissions, in an attempt to secure approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. Harper reportedly wrote to Obama in late August, the Wall Street Journal reports, signaling his willingness to accept carbon-reduction targets proposed by the U.S. and to address concerns raised by the White...
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Climate action: Never let a good crisis go to waste
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The publication on 27 September of the first of a series of four reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be a major event. It will of course be significant in that it will provide the latest in-depth scientific review of our understanding of climate change, with the series of reports covering some 3,000 pages and involving well over 800 authors. However, it's fair to say that the environmental and economic case for urgently tackling climate change has already compellingly...
Climate action gets more GOP support
2013-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNJ: Climate change doesn't care if you're liberal or conservative, a Whig or on Team Jacob, and a growing number of conservatives are realizing that they don't have to choose between their core beliefs and preventing climate change. In an Aug. 1 editorial in the New York Times titled A Republican Case for Climate Action, four conservative EPA heads from the Nixon, Reagan, and two Bush administrations affirmed the global-warming analyses of scientists working for government and environmental-action...
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Government action on climate change
2013-07-27 04:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Good news For climate activists, the last few weeks have been exciting. President Obama finally laid out a plan to address climate change. [Obama rallies faithful ahead of August recess, seattletimes.com, July 22.] Another bit of good news is the confirmation of Gina McCarthy as the new administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. As an air-pollution expert, McCarthy will be at the helm of implementing rules to help protect our planet from climate change. Now is the time we all...
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Marylands New Emissions Plan Shows Climate Action Is Cost-Effective
2013-07-26 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: As impacts from climate change become more visible and costly, leaders across the nation are responding. In the wake of projections from the University of Marylands Center for Environmental Science showing that Maryland could face sea-level rise of more than six feet by the end of the century, Governor Martin OMalley unveiled a state climate action plan this week. The initiative will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also supporting job creation and economic growth. Sea-level rise will make...
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