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Poll finds broad public support for Obamas climate change plan
2013-07-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: The partisan political rhetoric has been fierce in the weeks since President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious package of proposals to combat climate change. But a bipartisan national poll conducted for the Natural Resources Defense Council found two-thirds of registered voters approve of one of the plans most controversial components, setting limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants. That includes support from 49 percent of Republicans. Almost as many Republicans, 45 percent,...
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Obama's unlikely climate change partner: China
2013-07-18 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama has stumbled on an unusual partner in his quest to combat climate change: China. The world's two biggest emitters of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are finding common cause in efforts to reduce global warming, cooperation the U.S. says could clear the way for other developing, heavily polluting nations like India and Brazil to get on board, too. Skeptics question whether either nation will follow through on lofty aspirations. Still, the budding agreements are allowing...
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Is Obama's "Power Africa" Simply Enabling More Climate Change?
2013-07-18 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Since President Obama's trip to Africa, attention has continued to focus on energy development in Tanzania -- including the nomination of a White House insider as U.S. Ambassador. In his June 30 speech in South Africa, Obama announced the "Power Africa" pledge of $7 billion, with another $9 billion of private money over five years to double access to electricity in the six sub-Saharan countries of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania, as well as separate deals with Uganda and Mozambique...
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For Obama's climate plan, devil is in the details
2013-07-15 14:37:36| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Frustrated by a recalcitrant Congress, President Barack Obama has vowed to take climate change into his own hands. Now he has to deliver. Three weeks after giving an ambitious speech to outline his proposal, the president begins the arduous task of executing it. Obama's plan is a complicated mix of rule-making and federal permitting that's tough to encapsulate in a neat sales pitch - and may be even tougher to put into action. By pledging to use his authority under existing laws, Obama freed...
House Republicans ready attack on Obama's social cost of carbon
2013-07-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A House hearing next Thursday will provide a platform for GOP criticism of the White House decision to increase the estimated damages from carbon emissions that agencies use in crafting regulations. A subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is delving into the higher social cost of carbon estimate. Howard Shelanski, the top White House regulatory official, will testify at the hearing, a committee aide said. Shelanski heads the Office of Information and Regulatory...
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