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EPA urged to protect people's welfare in new rules to limit pollution
2014-06-01 18:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pilot: Citing concern that power plants are a major contributor to climate change through carbon emissions, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami called upon the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to craft rules limiting pollution that respect human life and dignity. The archbishop, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, told EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in a May 29 letter that standards to reduce power plant pollution should protect the health and...
Va. to review natural gas fracking rules
2014-06-01 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Virginia is looking anew at regulations governing hydraulic fracking for natural gas, a drilling method that has spawned a gold rush for the energy resource in the U.S. and given rise to its own environmental movement. The review comes ahead of a Dallas energy companys plans to drill in tens of thousands of leased acres south and east of Fredericksburg. To date, drilling for natural gas in Virginia has occurred only in the southwest Coalfields region of the state. The Virginia Department of...
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W.Va. at climate change crossroads as EPA power plant rules loom
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette-Mail: Last June, on a warm day on the campus of Georgetown University, President Obama took off his suit coat and launched into his most significant speech to date about the dangers human society faces from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the planets atmosphere. Wiping sweat from his forehead, Obama promised serious new action for the sake of our children, and the health and safety of all Americans. On Monday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency will make good on part of that promise. The...
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EPA rules may force Wisconsin utilities to reduce coal use
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal Sentinel: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will unveil a proposal Monday to cut emissions at coal-fired power plants -- the biggest step yet by the Obama administration to combat global warming, and a move with major implications for Wisconsin, because coal generates more than half the state's electricity. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has said the agency will give broad latitude to states to meet targets for carbon emissions. While those targets are not yet known, a mandate to cut emissions by...
Obama, GOP spar ahead of new EPA pollution rules
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama and Republicans squared over pollution regulations in their weekly radio addresses to the nation Saturday morning ahead of Monday's rollout of landmark EPA greenhouse gas restrictions for power plants. Obama, who taped his address Friday at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. focused on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on public health. "As president, and as a parent, I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that's beyond fixing,'...
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