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Germany's Merkel urges strict, binding goals to tackle climate change
2015-11-28 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany's chancellor gave a qualified welcome on Saturday to China's pledge to tackle rising temperatures ahead of a global climate conference but she called for more ambitious goals to cut greenhouse emissions. In her weekly internet podcast on Saturday, Angela Merkel also underscored the long-term importance of coal-fired power for Germany, a country that remains one of the globe's biggest economies and exporters. "It is remarkable that China ... has given a timeframe for reduction of 2030,"...
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New limit for smog-causing emissions isn't as strict as expected
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a major new regulation on smog-causing emissions that spew from smokestacks and tailpipes, significantly tightening the current Bush-era standards but falling short of more stringent regulations that public health advocates and environmentalists had urged. The Environmental Protection Agency set the new national standard for ozone, a smog-causing gas that often forms on hot, sunny days when chemical emissions from power plants, factories and vehicles...
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Strict Workflow (for Chrome)
2015-09-30 01:03:08| PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
Productivity enthusiasts will love Strict Workflow, a free browser plug-in loosely based on the Pomodoro Technique of working in focused bursts, followed by short breaks. It's a wonderful tool for timing work sessions and blocking distracting sites.
Strict Workflow (for Chrome)
2015-09-29 21:03:02| PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
Productivity enthusiasts will love Strict Workflow, a free browser plug-in loosely based on the Pomodoro Technique of working in focused bursts, followed by short breaks. It's a wonderful tool for timing work sessions and blocking distracting sites.
Political battles simmer ahead of Obama's strict climate change plan
2015-08-03 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: HARI SREENIVASAN: President Obama is proposing the toughest regulations in U.S. history to combat climate change. In a video previewing tomorrows announcement, the president says climate change is not an opinion, but a fact and a threat. He calls power plants the biggest domestic source of polluting emissions that contribute to global warming. The most significant rule would require existing power plants to cut emissions from 2005 levels by 32 percent by 2030. Other rules would limit construction...
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