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White House tackles methane emissions in sweeping strategy
2014-03-28 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration is ordering federal agencies to take on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane in an effort to fight climate change. The sweeping interagency plan highlights new steps the administration will take to cut emissions across a number of industries, including energy and agriculture. The long-awaited methane strategy provides no hard timeline for a proposed rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency will begin working on series of white papers this...
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White House Looks to Cut Methane Emissions
2014-03-28 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The Obama administration has directed the EPA to study the key sources of the potent greenhouse gas and develop strategies for reducing emissions. It's part of the administration's effort to sidestep Congress to fight global warming The Obama administration on Friday announced a new initiative to cut methane emissions, as part of its efforts to go around Congress to combat climate change. Central to the administration`s methane emissions reduction strategy are new regulations on the oil and...
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White House Might Ditch BlackBerry for Android
2014-03-21 20:34:21| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
BlackBerry may be losing one of its most high-profile clients, according to reports that the White House is testing Samsung and LG-manufactured smartphones.
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White House to Unveil New Methane Strategy This Month
2014-03-20 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The White House plans to press ahead with more executive actions to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the coming weeks, including a government-wide strategy aimed at cutting methane emissions, according to top Obama advisers. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is about 25 times more powerful as a heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide, the largest human contributor to climate change. While it largely dissipates in a few decades and there is far less of it in the atmosphere than CO2, it...
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White House unveils one-stop website for climate change data
2014-03-20 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As part of its campaign to address climate change, the White House on Wednesday unveiled a website to serve as a one-stop location for the enormous amount of climate data housed at different federal agencies. The initiative to make the information easily accessible to communities, researchers and industries trying to adapt to global warming is the White House's latest move to deliver on a pledge President Obama made in June: to use his executive authority to confront climate change in light of...
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