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Science Standards Divide a State Built on Coal and Oil
2014-05-19 01:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Sitting in the headquarters of the Wyoming Liberty Group, Susan Gore, founder of the conservative think tank, said new national science standards for schools were a form of "coercion," adding, "I don't think government should have anything to do with education." Ms. Gore, a daughter of the founder of the company that makes Gore-Tex waterproof fabric, was speaking here weeks after the Republican-controlled Legislature made Wyoming, where coal and oil are king, the first state to reject the standards,...
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China aims for 70GW of solar in race to ditch coal
2014-05-19 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China intends to accelerate its deployment of solar power, after setting a new target to more than triple installed capacity to 70GW by 2017 as part of its drive to cut its reliance on coal. The new solar target is double the previous one set for 2015, according to a statement posted last week on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission. China, currently the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, already has about 20GW of solar capacity. But it has emerged as the world's...
Obama greenhouse-gas cuts splits power, coal industries
2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Bracing for greenhouse-gas rules from the Obama administration, two industries are staking out different positions. Coal companies are pledging to sue. Electric utilities are ready to talk. That split may give U.S. President Barack Obama a chance to rally support -- or at least blunt resistance -- to his plan, which is due June 2. Electric companies say they hope to convince Obamas aides that cuts in carbon emissions already achieved should count toward the goals in his plan, which could call...
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Fossil fuels: UK to 'run out of oil, gas and coal' in five years
2014-05-17 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The UK is set to run out of its oil, coal, and gas supplies in a little over five years, a new report had claimed. The research from the Global Sustainability Institute has said that other European countries are facing similar shortages and that many nations will become entirely dependent on energy imports in the next few years. The UK has 5.2 years of oil remaining, 4.5 years of coal and three years of gas before completely running out of fossil fuels, says the institute, which is based at...
Gov. Brown says UC divestment from coal is a possibility
2014-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Gov. Jerry Brown suggested Thursday that UC should study the possibility of divesting its endowment of any connection to the coal industry, a move that could echo a recent decision by Stanford University. Concerned that fossil fuel burning is hastening climate change, student activists are urging the UC regents to sell off holdings in the largest such companies from the university system`s $7.7 billion general endowment fund. In the past, UC administrators said they were reluctant to do so because...
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