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UK proposes closing all its coal-fired power plants by 2025
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain aims to close its coal-fired power plants by 2025 under plans announced on Wednesday, becoming the first major economy to put a date on shutting coal plants to curb carbon emissions. Instead, the country will look to nuclear and natural gas-fired power plants to complement intermittent renewable energy, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd said. "It cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon-intensive 50-year-old...
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Open VPX-Compliant Power Supply offers integrated intelligence.
2015-11-18 14:31:06| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
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White House Threatens Veto the Senate's Clean Power Plan Challenge
2015-11-18 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The White House issued a veto threat on Tuesday for a resolution from the Republican-led U.S. Senate that would nullify new regulations to cut carbon emissions from power plants, the central piece of President Barack Obama's climate plan. The Senate sponsors of the motion have said the Environmental Protection Agency regulation, which is also being challenged in U.S. federal court by 26 states and more than a dozen industry groups, would hurt jobs in coal-dependent regions. Late on Tuesday,...
Radical plan proposes power generators pay close dirty coal competitors
2015-11-18 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Power generators would be forced to pay for the closure of a competitors dirty brown-coal fired plant under a radical plan that could help Australia slow the continued increase in electricity sector greenhouse emissions without a carbon price or expensive government subsidies. The idea from Australian National University academics Frank Jotzo and Salim Mazouz offers the government hope of meeting the long-term emission reduction targets it will promise in Paris and provides the energy sector...
OECD countries agree to restrict financing for overseas coal power plants
2015-11-18 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A compromise struck by the United States, Japan and several other major nations will restrict export financing to build coal power plants overseas, but not eliminate it completely. The agreement reached Tuesday is an important step forward that sends a strong political message ahead of upcoming international climate change negotiations in Paris, an American official and environmentalists said. Japan and the United States were long at odds on this issue. The Obama administration announced in...
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