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Obama's Climate Change Plan Faces Crucial Test
2015-04-15 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Regulations at the center of President Obamas climate change initiative face a crucial test this week when opponents will attempt to block them before theyre even made final. A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., will hear oral arguments Thursday in a high-stakes legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) proposed emissions limits for existing power plants. Murray Energy Corp., a major coal mining company, is asking the court to do something that it admits is extraordinary:...
Scott Walker slammed climate change denier
2015-04-15 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Capital Times: Billionaire hedge fund manager and green power advocate Tom Steyer is taking Gov. Scott Walker to task, accusing the Republican presidential hopeful of being a pawn for fossil fuel interests and a climate change denier. In a full page ad running in the Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday, Steyers group NextGen Climate blasts the states GOP leadership for promoting a war on science by banning work on climate change. The group calls out Walker specifically for staying silent on the issue and for...
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What does it take to convince libertarians and conservatives that climate change is a problem?
2015-04-15 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When it comes to climate change, there is an amazing confluence of policy preferences and scientific assessments. Those who generally favor aggressive regulatory interventions to address environmental concerns are convinced global warming is a serious (if not catastrophic) environmental concern, while those who generally oppose governmental interventions in the marketplace are skeptical of mainstream climate science. Each side of the policy debate has adopted a view of the science that confirms --...
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Canada provinces urge PM to take stronger action on climate change
2015-04-15 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The leaders of nine Canadian provinces and territories on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take stronger measures to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard stressed the urgency of enacting taxes on carbon, creating cap-and-trade systems or using technology to capture or reduce carbon emissions. Nine of Canadas 13 premiers attended a provincial climate change summit in Quebec City that was in preparation for an international...
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UN Chief to Open Vatican Climate Change Conference
2015-04-15 00:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open a key Vatican meeting this month on Pope Francis' highly anticipated teaching document on climate change. The U.N. chief will join American economist Jeffrey Sachs and the pope's top representative on the environment, Cardinal Peter Turkson, at the April 28 event in Rome. Turkson, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, helped write the first draft of the pope's encyclical on global warming and the environment, which is scheduled to be...
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