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Addressing Climate Change Gaining Momentum in States Coast to Coast
2013-02-27 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Earlier this month in his State of the Union address, President Obama went before Congress and laid down an important marker -- act on climate or I will. The president has the ability to use his executive authority to make significant progress to fight the climate crisis, from cutting carbon pollution from new and existing power plants to rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and other dirty fuels. But he also needs allies at the state-level to work with him to lead the way towards additional...
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First step in addressing climate change is ending denial
2013-01-10 22:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Coloradoan: Theres a big reason climate change differs from so many public policy challenges: Unlike other crises, addressing the planets major environmental crisis truly requires mass consensus. Indeed, because fixing the problem involves so many different societal changes reducing carbon emissions, conserving energy, retrofitting infrastructure, altering a meat-centric diet, to name a few we all need to at least agree on the basic fact that we are facing an emergency. This is especially the case in a...
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