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Does Obama's Backtrack on Biofuels Undermine Climate Change Message in Paris?
2015-11-20 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Despite the terrorist attacks in Paris, French officials have announced the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, also taking place in Paris, will proceed as planned on November 30. The conference is expected to produce a blueprint to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of global warming. President Barack Obama will be among the nearly 120 world leaders who are expected to attend. Over the last year, Obama has made global warming one of his legacy issues. "Climate Change is...
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Amid record global temperatures, Senate votes to block Obamas Clean Power Plan
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Even as new data suggest that October of 2015 was a record-breaking hot month -- with a 1.04 degree Celsius global temperature anomaly, the biggest monthly departure from average ever seen in NASA records -- Senate Republicans led a vote to block President Obamas flagship climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, and also another major EPA energy regulation of new power plants. [Record crushing October heat keeps Earth on track for hottest year in 2015] The largely symbolic votes, which have prompted...
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Senate Blocks Obamas Climate Change Rules
2015-11-18 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Senate voted on Tuesday to block President Obamas tough new climate change regulations, hoping to undermine his negotiating authority before a major international climate summit meeting in Paris this month. The Senate resolution, which passed 52 to 46, would scuttle a rule that would significantly cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. That Environmental Protection Agency rule, released in August, is the centerpiece of Mr. Obamas efforts to address climate...
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A conservative alternative to Obama's climate plan
2015-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: William F. Buckley, widely considered the father of modern conservatism, once opined: "Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great." A perfect illustration is the GOP`s current stance on climate change-an issue Buckley himself took...
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Why Coal Burners Don't Totally Hate Obama's Climate Plan
2015-11-14 18:23:01| Energy - Topix.net
On the one hand, Southern Co. and American Electric Power Co. have joined in a legal challenge against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which is meant to steer the U.S. away from coal power and toward renewable energy.
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