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Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies will reduce carbon emissions by 12%
2015-11-20 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Sandrine Dixson-Declve, the director of the Cambridge Universitys Institute for Sustainability Leadership says that Europe needs to eliminate fossul fuel subsidies and create an energy system based around renewables or will face becoming increasingly uncompetitive. Speaking in Paris yesterday at the European Wind Energy Conference where Ecotricitys launched their groundbreaking new windmill, the Britwind H15, Dixson-Declve warned that fossil fuel subsidies are harming the poor and are based...
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Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr. Mock Fossil Fuel Industry in Funny or Die Video
2015-11-20 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The League of Conservation Voters and comedy video website Funny or Die have teamed up to produce a video with the help of two huge stars, Ed Begley Jr. and Jeff Goldblum. The video mocks the fossil fuel industry`s opposition to President Obamas Clean Power Plan. The hilarious segment is set in a boardroom with nine utility executives, who are furious that they have to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) new carbon rule for power plants. People are convinced our coal-fired...
Texas wind and solar power compete fossil fuels in just a few years
2015-11-20 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: Wind and solar power competing evenly with their fossil fuel counterparts without federal subsidies could come in just a few years in Texas and other areas, while it may take another 15 years or more in other parts of the country, according to reports released this week. The paradox slowing renewable power growth somewhat is that the regions with the greatest natural resource potential for wind and solar, like the southwest and mid-continent, already have relatively cheap power prices that make...
How will fossil fuel stance affect city?
2015-11-19 17:49:32| PortlandOnline
Editorial Board in the Portland Tribune, November 19, 2015
UK to Shut Down All Coal Power Plants by 2025, But Will Remain Fossil Fuel Dependent
2015-11-19 14:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The world`s wealthiest nations appear to be slowly acknowledging the destruction that decades of coal burning has wrought on the environment, though campaigners are warning that pledges to curb subsidies and close power plants still fall substantially short of the "radical shift" necessary to keep global warming beneath the stated goal of 2°C. UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd on Wednesday announced that her country would close all coal-fired power plants by 2025, making it first major global economy...
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