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Carbon limits: Obama's EPA sets terms for tomorrow's cleaner energy industry
2013-09-21 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For citizens of a democratic society, there may be no greater obligation than to act today to protect future generations from the threats of tomorrow. That is what the Obama administration did on Friday, when it stood up to protect our children from the widening ravages of global climate change. It moved to set in place the first-ever limits on dangerous carbon pollution from the power plants we'll build in the years to come. Climate change is the leading environmental challenge of our time....
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Obama copies California greenhouse rules, takes on coal with first-ever carbon limits
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would mean a dim future for coal. The proposal, which sets the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, would help reshape where Americans get electricity, moving from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner...
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Administration to Press Ahead With Carbon Limits
2013-09-21 04:36:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration on Friday announced that it was not backing down from a confrontation with the coal industry and that it would press ahead with enacting the first federal carbon limits on the nations power companies. The proposed regulations, announced at the National Press Club by Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are an aggressive move by Mr. Obama to bypass Congress on climate change with executive actions he promised in his inaugural address this...
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EPA Proposes 1st Carbon Emissions Limits on New Power Plants
2013-09-20 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the country`s first Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon pollution from new power plants to combat climate change and improve public health. The newly proposed standards are meant to ensure that the power plants of the future use cleaner energy technologies, such as efficient natural gas, advanced coal technology, nuclear power, and renewable energy like wind and solar. Power plants are the largest concentrated source of emissions in...
EPA Announces Limits to Greenhouse Gas Emissions on New Power Plants
2013-09-20 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today proposed carbon emissions standards for new power plants. The Clean Air Act standards are an effort to combat climate change and improve public health, according to the U.S. EPA`s press release. The U.S. EPA has also initiated outreach and direct engagement with state, local and tribal governments as well as industry leaders, nonprofits and other organizations to work towards establishing carbon pollution standards for existing power...
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