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PROMISES, PROMISES: Hopes on climate change action may fall short again in Obamas new term
2013-03-25 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The issue: Slowing the buildup of greenhouse gases responsible for warming the planet is one of the biggest challenges the United States and President Barack Obama face. The effects of rising global temperatures are widespread and costly: more severe storms, rising seas, species extinctions, and changes in weather patterns that will alter food production and the spread of disease. Politically, the stakes are huge. Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources...
Analysis: Obama's climate agenda may face setbacks in federal court
2013-03-24 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama's plan to use federal agencies, and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular, to drive his second-term climate change agenda might be in peril if he cannot fill vacant seats on the federal court that has jurisdiction over major national regulations, legal experts say. Obama is the first full-term president in more than a half century not to have appointed a single judge to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court, considered...
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Obamas science advisers press for carbon standards
2013-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obamas outside team of scientific advisers is recommending the creation of carbon emissions standards for existing pollution sources and continued expansion of shale gas production in order to confront global warming. Those are two of the wide-ranging climate policy suggestions that the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) unveiled Friday that address ways to curb emissions and adapt to inevitable climatic changes. Others include creation of a National...
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President Obamas Energy Security Trust Would Support NGVs
2013-03-22 07:04:38| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
President Obamas proposal to pay for research into alternative fuels and new energy systems from his Energy Security Trust could bolster natural gas vehicles with an incentive program. The natural gas vehicle market is already growing, but the vehicle incentives the president calls for would help accelerate that growth and help displace foreign oil use [...]The Article President Obamas Energy Security Trust Would Support NGVs appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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The Wealth of Business Connections for Obamas Energy Pick
2013-03-20 08:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Monthly: When President Obama nominated Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary earlier this month, he hailed the nuclear physicist as a "brilliant scientist" who, among his many talents, had effectively brought together "prominent thinkers and energy companies" in the continuing effort to figure out a safe and economically sound energy future for the country. Indeed, Moniz's collaborative work best captured in the industry-backed research program he oversaw at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
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