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No Sense of Urgency: Obamas New Solar Energy Commitments Are Still Just Baby Steps
2014-05-10 07:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: President Obama has long expressed concern about climate change and its impacts, and was mocked by Mitt Romney for saying he wanted to stop the rising of the seas. But climate change activists have been dismayed that the president nevertheless spoke of an "all of the above" energy policy, urging further oil and gas exploitation, talking about unicorns like clean coal, and generally doing little to tackle the enormous problem. The US emits 5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, more than...
NEMA Commends President Obama's Commitment to Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs)
2014-05-09 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
NEMA's Evan R. Gaddis commended Obama administration for setting ambitious and achievable goal of continuing to use energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) to upgrade energy efficiency of federal facilities. Specifically, President Barack Obama set goal for federal agencies to enter into $2 billion of ESPCs over the next 3 years. This adds specific target to his December 2013 announcement of continued ESPC use through 2016, bringing total commitment up to $4 billion since 2011. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Obama's talking climate change, but is anyone listening?
2014-05-08 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: President Barack Obama will seek to make the case Friday for the urgency of fighting climate change with a speech at a California Walmart, but hes faced with apathy among the public and hostility from congressional Republicans. Obama has launched a public relations campaign in the wake of Tuesdays release of the National Climate Assessment, in which federal scientists focused on individual regions of the country as they warned of rising sea levels, extreme storms, heat waves, droughts and other...
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VIDEO: Obama's trade deal faces jobs question
2014-04-24 04:39:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A potential free trade deal called the Trans Pacific Partnership is being seen as key to boosting growth in the Asia-Pacific region. But it has raised some questions about the impact on US jobs.
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Pipeline delay gives boost to Obama's political base
2014-04-20 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The latest delay to a final decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will reinforce a White House strategy to energize President Barack Obama's liberal-leaning base before fall elections in which Democrats risk losing control of the U.S. Senate. Environmentalists, worried about the project's effect on climate change, have put enormous pressure on the president to reject the pipeline from Canada's oil sands, staging demonstrations outside the White House and protests in states where he travels....
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