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The Right Call on Climate Change
2014-06-19 17:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement earlier this month of its proposal to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants marks an historic effort by the president and his administration to take action to fight climate change. It is a major step forward to protect public health, slow global warming, and create clean energy jobs. Power plants are the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, producing nearly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions....
Filtration Technology Reduces Air Change Rates
2014-06-19 16:23:00| Chemical Processing
Erlab introduces Halo air filter
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Fiji accuses global community abandon Pacific on climate change, singles out 'selfish' Australia
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fiji's interim prime minister Frank Bainimarama has accused the global community of abandoning Pacific island nations to "sink below the waves" instead of tackling climate change. Opening a regional summit, he singled out "selfish" Australia for criticism, saying there is "collective disappointment and dismay" in the Pacific at the failure to address climate change. "The rising sea levels caused by global warming threaten the very existence of some of our neighbours - Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall...
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Republican ex-EPA chiefs say its time to act on climate change
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Herald: Four administrators of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents told a Senate panel Wednesday that climate change is real and the federal government has the responsibility and the legal authority to combat it. While saying they might differ on the details of how U.S. officials should react, the former administrators said the cost of delay _ or of doing nothing _ was high. In a hearing before a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee, William Ruckelshaus...
Cambodia's economy most at risk from climate change: Report
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: A report by the US credit ratings agency Standard and Poors says climate change and specifically global warming is going to be the second global mega trend that will affect sovereign credit risk. The report has ranked Cambodia's economy and credit worthiness as the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Vietnam, Bangladesh and Senegal follow close behind Cambodia as economies most at risk. Dr Sarah Milne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, at...
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