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Must-See Jon Stewart Roasting Republicans Who Willfully Deny Climate Change
2014-06-21 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: What a comedian, this guy. Sooo the fact that "experts" are predicting 15 years of COOLING, oh right we changed it to climate change so we can apply it to anything. That`s right. Ok let`s do it! Let`s go ahead and impose a ridiculous new carbon tax for EVErYbody. I`m soooo sure the government is gonna put that money to good use, as they always do. Yeeeeaaa government!! We are sooooo lucky to have the leaders we do. And now, how about some smug, arrogant, insulting liberal commentary. Global...
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Republicans to try to block funds for EPA rules
2014-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Republicans will try to block the Environmental Protection Agencys proposed greenhouse-gas rule by denying the funding to implement it, according to a senior member of a U.S. House appropriations panel. The funding ban will be in Interior, Idaho Republican Mike Simpson said, referring to the spending bill being drafted for the Department of Interior and EPA. Simpson, head of the Houses Energy-Water Appropriations subcommittee, formerly chairman of the Interior and Environment appropriations...
Whatever happened to Republicans stand up clean air?
2014-06-05 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Obama administrations plan to cut coal plant emissions, and clear the air of greenhouse gases, has generated a late-spring wave of hot air from Republicans on Capitol Hill. Having states move to curb carbon emissions is a dagger in the heart of Americas middle class and will destroy jobs and hurt families across America, said Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. The presidents plan is nuts. Theres really no more succinct way to describe it, tweeted House Speaker John Boehner. Similar...
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Republicans are claiming the new climate rules will wreck the economy. Theyre wrong
2014-06-02 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its much anticipated plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the source of about a third of U.S. emissions. It turns out the regulations will be pretty ambitious: a 30 percent decrease in emissions in this sector from 2005 levels by the year 2030 (though some say that is still not enough). Critics are out in force, of course, and their chief tactic seems to be economic alarmism. Earlier this morning, the front...
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Billionaire's PAC Targets 7 Republicans Who Doubt Climate Change
2014-05-27 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The super-political action committee financed by billionaire and former money manager Tom Steyer will try to raise climate change as an election issue in four U.S. Senate races and three gubernatorial contests this year, the group announced this morning. NextGen Climate Action Committee had raised $9.3 million through the end of April to spend on 2014 elections almost all of it from Steyer himself, U.S. Federal Election Commission reports show. Steyer, whose net worth is $2.6 billion, founded...
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