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Clean energy group backs Republican in Florida race
2016-06-28 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A conservative clean energy group is giving a GOP House incumbent in Florida its first ever House election endorsement. ClearPath Action Fund, headed by conservative entrepreneur Jay Faison, highlighted the leading role freshman Rep. Carlos Curbelo has played as a Republican who believes in man-made climate change and wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Carlos Curbelo has quickly proven to be a leader among Republicans in protecting the environment and expanding the development of clean...
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United Kingdom: How London Array blows away the competition in green energy
2016-06-28 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At the widest point of the Greater Thames estuary, 12 miles north of the Kent coast and 12 miles south of Essex, lies the London Array the largest operational offshore wind farm in the world. Completed in 2013, after 10 years of planning and construction, it covers an area of 40 square miles roughly the same size of Bristol and comprises 175 individual turbines laid out in neat rows like an enormous nursery flower bed. Standing on a boat in the middle of the wind farm surrounded by these...
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Obama's New Clean Energy Goal For North America: 50 Percent By 2025
2016-06-28 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama and his counterparts from Canada and Mexico are preparing to unveil an ambitious new goal for generating carbon-free power when they meet this week in Ottawa. The three leaders are expected to set a target for North America to get 50 percent of its electricity from nonpolluting sources by 2025. That's up from about 37 percent last year. Aides acknowledge that's a "stretch goal," requiring commitments over and above what the three countries agreed to as part of the Paris climate...
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Leave vote makes UK's transition to clean energy harder, say experts
2016-06-28 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UKs challenge to build a clean, secure and affordable energy system has become significantly harder amid the political and economic turmoil following the nations vote to leave the European Union. Higher customer bills and delayed or cancelled projects are expected by experts, the most pessimistic of whom warn of the lights going out. The optimists argue that the global rush towards clean energy and strong domestic UK climate change targets can keep the transition to clean, green energy moving...
US, Canada and Mexico pledge 50% of power from clean energy by 2025
2016-06-28 02:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pea Nieto will commit to a new regional clean power goal at a summit this week in Ottawa, the White House has said. The leaders of the US, Canada and Mexico, meeting on Wednesday at the so-called Three Amigos summit, will pledge to have their countries produce 50% of their power by 2025 from hydropower, wind, solar and nuclear plants, carbon capture and storage, as well as from energy efficiency measures. We believe this is an aggressive goal, but...
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