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Obama's climate plans to get airing in Congress
2013-09-18 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's plans to curb the gases blamed for global warming are heading to their first test, a House hearing in which administration officials make their case before skeptical lawmakers. The energy panel meeting Wednesday comes just days before a deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency to release a revised proposal setting the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide from newly built power plants. The rule, which will ultimately force the EPA to tackle emissions from existing...
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President Obama's Officials: Rule Won't Kill Coal-Fired Power
2013-09-18 06:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's top energy and environmental officials said Wednesday there is a future for coal, despite a pending regulation aimed at limiting global warming pollution from new power plants that Republicans and the coal industry say will doom the fuel source. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, questioned at a House hearing, both said coal-fired power would continue. Coal makes up about 40 percent of U.S. electricity. "The rule will provide certainty...
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Appalachian miners decry what call Obama's 'war on coal'
2013-09-17 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When President Obama laid out ambitious plans in June for combating climate change, coal miners like Roger Horton heard what they considered the latest fusillade in the administration's "war on coal." Until his retirement two weeks ago, Horton, 59, worked underground for decades in southern West Virginia's Logan County, then operated a 200-ton earth-moving truck to remove debris from blasted mountaintops. A milestone in Obama's initiative will come this week, when the Environmental Protection...
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New power plant emission rules, the first big step of Obama's climate plan, will emerge this week
2013-09-16 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: U.S. EPA will unveil standards for new power plants this week, the first step in a three-year rollout of regulations to address the largest stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The new power plant proposal will give a sense of how carbon capture and storage (CCS) -- the promising but controversial practice of removing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and storing it underground or using it for industrial purposes -- will feature in a rule on existing plants. "If...
Obama's Keystone XL Trade-Off: Executive Order Expediting Everything Else
2013-09-08 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Large segments of the environmental movement declared a win on Jan. 18, 2012, the dawn of an election year in which partisan fervor reigned supreme. On that day President Barack Obama kicked the can down the road for permitting TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline's northern half until after the then-forthcoming November 2012 presidential election. "Northern half" is the key caveat: just two months later, on March 22, 2013 -- even deeper into the weeds of an election year -- President Obama issued...
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