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Hosting fundraiser for climate-change denier puts Google in hot water
2013-07-15 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Jose Mercury News: Mountain View-based Google is taking some heat for hosting a fundraiser for a U.S. senator who is an outspoken disbeliever in man-made climate change, despite the company's green rhetoric. Google's Washington, D.C., office will host a lunch Thursday, at $250 to $2,500 per plate, to benefit Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., just a month after Google chairman Eric Schmidt said those who deny climate change and global warming are liars. Climate change activists plan to picket outside in order to "remind people...
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What Barack Obama's climate-change strategy means for Canada: Walkom
2013-06-27 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: When U.S. President Barack Obama spelled out his plans to fight climate change this week, most Canadian attention focused on a proposed Alberta-to-Texas pipeline. Certainly, the Keystone XL heavy oil pipeline is important. Both proponents and opponents of the Alberta oil sands have much riding on whether it goes ahead. Obamas deliberately opaque references Tuesday gave few real clues But Canadians also have a broader interest in how America handles climate change. For the sad truth is that...
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Obamas Climate-Change Goals Come With a Warning on Keystone
2013-06-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: U.S. President Barack Obama has laid out a sweeping plan to fight climate change that would limit pollution from coal-fired plants, a package he unveiled while making it clear that approval for Canada's Keystone XL pipeline project will only come if its backers can prove it won't worsen global warming. Saying that the world still looks to the United States to lead, Mr. Obama called for curbs on existing and new coal-fired plants - the sector produces two-fifths of the country's electricity but...
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Obama climate-change speech to be combed for Keystone clues
2013-06-25 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: With an eye on his legacy, President Barack Obama will unveil Tuesday sweeping plans to help save the planet from runaway global warming by curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. But the toughest climate-change decision soon to cross the President's Oval Office desk - the fate of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline designed to ship Alberta oil-sands crude across America - likely won't even rate a mention. Anti-Keystone XL activists said they will demonstrate at Georgetown University where Mr. Obama is...
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Coal shares plunge ahead of Obama's climate-change speech
2013-06-25 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Shares of U.S. coal mining companies plunged Monday, battered by weak economic data from China, the overall stock market slide and the prospect that President Obama will announce plans for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal plants. "It was the triple whammy,' said James Rollyson, a coal analyst with the investment firm Raymond James. In addition, coal company investors were anxious over news Monday that the Supreme Court would review the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision...
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