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Renewable Energy Best Way To Achieve Climate Targets Under Clean Power Plan Unaddressed Methane Leakage From Natural Gas Sector Could Undercut Emissions Reductions
2016-02-01 04:54:46| pollutiononline Home Page
New analysis from PSE Healthy Energy and University of California at Berkeley finds that increased deployment of renewable energy is the best way to meet or even surpass Clean Power Plan targets, as recent scientific measurements of methane leaks from natural gas systems have found higher rates of leakage than those recorded in official inventories
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Obama: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Undercut U.S. Leadership On Climate Change
2015-11-06 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama announced Friday that he rejected a permit to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The controversial project would have carried oil harvested from tar sands in Canada.
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Deadline for train safety technology undercut by industry lobbying
2015-10-26 08:52:48| Railroads - Topix.net
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How Keystone review undercut Obama's climate policies
2015-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Ranchers arrested for trespassing on their own property. Preachers moonlighting as land agents. Billionaire activists hiring former Navy SEALs to conduct mock terror attacks. Given the farcical turns the fight over Keystone XL has taken, its only fitting that the pipeline has reemerged as a top priority for the new Republican Congress when the issues it was supposed to fix--weak job creation, energy insecurity, pain at the pump--are far less pressing than when Keystone was proposed. The pipeline,...
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Report: Global warming could undercut efforts eradicate poverty
2014-11-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Climate change could undermine efforts to defeat extreme poverty around the globe, the World Bank warned Sunday. In a new report on the impact of global warming, the bank said sharp temperature rises would cut deeply into crop yields and water supplies in many areas and possibly set back efforts to bring populations out of poverty. "Climate change poses a substantial and escalating risk to development progress that could undermine global efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared...
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