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Obama's new emissions rules likely to help shape White House race
2015-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Over the next 15 years, President Obama's emissions plan aims to sharply reduce the use of coal and ramp up the use of wind and solar power. Over the next 15 years, President Obama's emissions plan aims to sharply reduce the use of coal and ramp up the use of wind and solar power. With Monday's release of landmark rules to combat global warming, President Obama is putting into place what probably will be the last piece of his ambitious second-term agenda -- one that highlights deep divisions...
Obamas big climate plan is now final and its even stronger than expected
2015-08-03 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its finally here, the biggest climate action of Obamas presidency: On Monday morning, the EPA will issue a final Clean Power Plan rule that will, for the first time, govern carbon emissions from power plants. And its stronger in several ways than the draft plan that was released in June 2014. The White House began bragging about its accomplishment on Sunday. First it released a feel-good video. Then there was a press call with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. On Monday, President Obama himself...
Political battles simmer ahead of Obama's strict climate change plan
2015-08-03 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: HARI SREENIVASAN: President Obama is proposing the toughest regulations in U.S. history to combat climate change. In a video previewing tomorrows announcement, the president says climate change is not an opinion, but a fact and a threat. He calls power plants the biggest domestic source of polluting emissions that contribute to global warming. The most significant rule would require existing power plants to cut emissions from 2005 levels by 32 percent by 2030. Other rules would limit construction...
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Obama's climate plan seeks to slash emissions from power plants
2015-08-02 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The White House said it will launch the first ever rule on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants, a plan that opponents in the coal industry and their political allies will fight in the courts. In a fact sheet issued on Sunday, the White House said President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan will cut emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The plan cuts emissions about 9 percent deeper than a last year's draft, the White House said. But it gives states two years more to cut...
Obama's Clean Power Plan gets a jolt of support from corporations
2015-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Three hundred sixty-five companies and investors sent letters on Friday to more than two dozen governors supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to significantly reduce carbon emissions from power plants, urging even the most recalcitrant states to recognize the economic and environmental benefits of the new rules. The Clean Power Plan, expected to be issued in final form as early as Monday, has drawn significant opposition, particularly from Republicans and the fossil fuel industry,...
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