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Documents reveal Army Corps earlier concerns about coal trains & wetlands
2013-09-20 14:36:52| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: Proposals to make the Northwest a major coal exporting region have made for a familiar debate over the potential impacts on people and the environment. Will it help the economy? What will coal dust do to the air we breathe? Will our rivers and marine waters be threatened? Heres another question: Will coal trains harm the wetlands of the Pacific Northwest? So far, wetlands have not been a central part of the public debate over coal exports. But concern over these ecologically sensitive areas are...
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EPA's new rules for coal accelerate Obama's agenda on climate change
2013-09-20 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: Three months after President Obama vowed to get tough on climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday begins that mission by announcing long-awaited rules for new power plants that, while slightly watered down, will be tough on the beleaguered coal industry. The regulations, under development for two years and recently finalized, set harsh limits on carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power-generation facilities and could, critics argue, eventually spell doom for American fossil...
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EPA's Emission Limits Require Coal Plants Adopt New Technology
2013-09-20 08:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Lawsuits are expected to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal Friday to limit emissions from new power plants, and the main reason is cutting-edge, anti-pollution technology. The EPA announced Friday morning its proposal to cap the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. Coal-fired plants -- unlike most natural gas facilities -- won't meet the standard without costly technology to capture and store carbon emissions. There's the rub. No commercial,...
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Social costs of electricity from coal make it uneconomical, researchers assert
2013-09-19 14:36:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: New research from a national environmental group finds that the cost of producing electricity from renewable resources like wind and solar is lower than that of conventional coal-fired generation when factoring for the adverse costs of climate change and human health impacts. That conclusion, derived from analysis on the "social cost of carbon," is at the heart of a study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences by Laurie Johnson, chief economist of the Natural Resources...
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Three times more people working in green-collar jobs than coal
2013-09-19 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The number of people working in the UK's wind and marine power sector has soared by 74 per cent over the past three years to more than 34,000, according to a major new industry report published today. Trade association RenewableUK's update to its 2010 report on employment in the sector details how the renewables industry is benefiting the UK economy. The study, commissioned in collaboration with Energy & Utility Skills and compiled by Cambridge Econometrics, reveals there are now nearly 18,500...
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