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Virginia to review natural gas fracking rules
2014-05-31 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Virginia is looking anew at regulations governing hydraulic fracking for natural gas. The drilling method has spawned a gold rush in the U.S. for the energy resource and given rise to its own environmental movement. The review comes ahead of a Dallas energy company's 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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EPA Carbon Rules Could Speed U.S. Shift From Coal
2014-05-31 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The Obama administration's historic proposal to reduce carbon emissions from U.S. power plants, expected Monday, could accelerate the nation's shift from coal to natural gas and renewable energy. Aimed at fighting climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency rules will require states to develop and implement plans to cut power plant emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. They will give states a range of options to comply, including the trading of pollution credits. Critics, however,...
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Aiming head off opposition, Obama casts new power plant rules as critical public health
2014-05-31 07:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newstalk 1010: As governors, businesses and environmentalists brace for new limits on power plant pollution, President Barack Obama is casting his unprecedented effort to curb greenhouse gases as essential to protect the health and wellbeing of children. "I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that's beyond fixing," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address released Saturday. His administration is bringing forward the first carbon pollution limits on existing U.S. power plants on Monday, the...
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Obama: New pollution rules will reduce asthma, heart attack
2014-05-31 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Press: US President Barack Obama said Saturday, May 31, that his administration's proposals to cut carbon emissions will prevent thousands of asthma and heart attacks each year. Obama's prediction came during his regular weekly broadcast address as he discussed proposed guidelines designed to "cut down on the carbon pollution, smog, and soot." The administration will release the guidelines in the coming week. Some 40% of the country's carbon pollution comes from power plants and while there are...
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Majority Of Americans Want Obamas Carbon Rules For Coal Plants, Poll Finds
2014-05-30 08:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Americans as a whole support putting strict regulations on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from existing coal-fired power plants in order to fight global warming and improve public health, a Yale University poll released Thursday showed. According to the poll conducted in April, 64 percent of the 1,013 Americans surveyed said they support a strict policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, while 35 percent said they opposed it - a support ratio of nearly two to one. However,...
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