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New Jersey in good shape to meet Obama's new climate-change plan
2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record: President Obama is expected to unveil an unprecedented plan on Monday to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nations coal- and gas-burning power plants -- many of whose provisions are already in effect in New Jersey. The state, which already has one of the nations cleanest fleets of power-generating plants, is not expected to face a major challenge meeting whatever emissions cuts are in it, environmental and business representatives predicted. Weve felt comfortable all along with this,...
Obamas new climate change regulations will affect Canada
2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: U.S. President Barack Obama will release Monday what the White House is billing as a pivotal climate change plan that will lead to massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants. The plan will target the nations 1,600 fossil fuel plants, which together produce about 41 per cent of the nations carbon dioxide emissions. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) predicted the regulations could lead to a 35 per cent reduction in GHG emissions below 2005 levels by 2020. ...
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Rule to limit heat-trapping gases from power plants was Obama's plan B
2014-05-31 08:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The new pollution rule the Obama administration announces Monday will be a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's environmental legacy and arguably the most significant U.S. environmental regulation in decades. But it's not one the White House wanted. As with other issues, the regulation to limit the pollution blamed for global warming from power plants is a compromise for Obama, who again finds himself caught between his aspirations and what is politically and legally possible. It will provoke...
Amazon deploys 10,000 robot workers, a year after Obamas famous Amazon jobs speech
2014-05-30 19:00:53| Extremetech
Amazon isn't stopping at its initial 1,000 Kiva robots, with Bezos promising as many as 10,000 will be hard at work by the end of the year. That pales compared to the plans Foxconn has, likely helped by Google.
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Majority Of Americans Want Obamas Carbon Rules For Coal Plants, Poll Finds
2014-05-30 08:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Americans as a whole support putting strict regulations on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from existing coal-fired power plants in order to fight global warming and improve public health, a Yale University poll released Thursday showed. According to the poll conducted in April, 64 percent of the 1,013 Americans surveyed said they support a strict policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, while 35 percent said they opposed it - a support ratio of nearly two to one. However,...
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