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How Keystone review undercut Obama's climate policies
2015-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Ranchers arrested for trespassing on their own property. Preachers moonlighting as land agents. Billionaire activists hiring former Navy SEALs to conduct mock terror attacks. Given the farcical turns the fight over Keystone XL has taken, its only fitting that the pipeline has reemerged as a top priority for the new Republican Congress when the issues it was supposed to fix--weak job creation, energy insecurity, pain at the pump--are far less pressing than when Keystone was proposed. The pipeline,...
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Barack Obama's India visit: Climate change talks high on the agenda between India and US
2015-01-25 02:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Climate change will figure high on the list on the agenda at Sunday's meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, especially as both leaders are personally invested in addressing the issue. The expected outcome, unlike the high voltage political deal with China, will focus mostly on technology and finance partnership in the area of clean energy. This will not preclude discussions on more politically contentious issues of mandatory domestic manufacturing component for...
On Obamas India visit, climate-change deal unlikely as Modi boosts coal production
2015-01-25 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In the hilly Singrauli region of northern India, animals feed on ash-covered grass, smoke stings the eyes and burns the throat, and the reservoir is foul with toxins such as mercury and arsenic. Even the breakfast eggs are gray. The critically polluted landscape was once forest and fields of grain and mustard flowers. But after four decades of industrial development, this is Indias power hub. More than a dozen coal mines and power plants spread over two states generate a fifth of the countrys...
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Say What? Republican live stream cuts Obama's remarks climate denial
2015-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Republicans cut Barack Obamas most forceful comments on climate change his mockery of climate denial from the partys official live stream of his State of the Union address. A purported Republican fact-check of Obamas address, prepared by staffers for the House speaker, John Boehner, clumsily cuts the president off mid-sentence just as he was about to wreck the Republicans new default line for talking about climate change: I am not a scientist. The Republican party leadership has adopted...
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Hazy skies the backdrop for Obama's climate talks in India
2015-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: When President Barack Obama arrives in New Delhi on Sunday he will join the Indian capital's masses in breathing some of the world's filthiest air. Hazy skies will serve as the backdrop to meetings with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other officials who are expected to discuss India's biggest environmental woes: Heavy reliance on fossil fuels that has transformed New Delhi into the planet's most polluted capital and made India the third biggest national emitter of greenhouse gases. With...
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