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California Governor Looks to Extend Climate-Change Efforts
2016-07-11 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC News: California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country and ensure his environmental legacy when he leaves office in two years. The centerpiece of the push is a cap-and-trade program that aims to reduce the use of fossil fuels by forcing manufacturers and other companies to meet tougher emissions limits or pay up to exceed them. The program has been one of the most-watched efforts in the world aimed at the climate-changing...
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Jerry Brown Looks To Extend Climate-Change Efforts
2016-07-11 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country and ensure his environmental legacy when he leaves office in two years. The centerpiece of the push is a cap-and-trade program that aims to reduce use of fossil fuels by forcing manufacturers and other companies to meet tougher emissions limits or pay up. The program, however, is only authorized to operate until 2020. It faces a litany of challenges including a lawsuit...
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Leo shows his hypocrisy in St. Tropez climate-change speech
2016-07-07 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Post: Heres the latest greenie hypocrisy: Leonardo DiCaprio plans to give a climate-change speech on July 20 to hundreds of his Hollywood best buds. But the actors speech will be in ritzy St. Tropez, even though many guests will be coming from California. That means theyll have to travel some 12,000 miles to hear it. And get this: According to the Daily Mail, every guest who takes a private jet will produce 86 tons of CO2. Commercial jet users will be responsible for seven tons of CO2 each....
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Science groups blasted for crossing line into activism with climate-change letter to Congress
2016-07-06 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: A letter to Congress from 31 science associations advocating for domestic and natural-security policies predicated on climate change has come under fire as a "climate power play." Judith Curry, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Earth and Atmospheric Science, described the June 28 letter as a "blatant misuse of scientific authority to advocate for specific socioeconomic policies." She also said that the professional societies, led by the American Association for the...
ExxonMobil's climate-change smoke screen
2016-06-28 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch News: Global warming is perhaps the single most significant threat facing the future of humanity on this planet. It is likely to wreak havoc on the economy, including, most especially, on the stocks of companies that sell hydrocarbon energy products. If large oil companies have deliberately misinformed investors about their knowledge of global warming, they may have committed serious commercial fraud. A potentially analogous instance of fraud occurred when tobacco companies were found to have deliberately...
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