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The anatomy of a legislative power play: How NV Energy will exit coal and make money doing it
2013-06-30 11:37:19| Semiconductors - Topix.net
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid arrived in Carson City on a Wednesday in February, commandeered an office at the Legislature and sat down with state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson to hatch a plan.
For Texas coal belt, dread over new climate change rules
2013-06-30 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: A pickup bounces along a gravel road just north of what is officially listed as the Big Brown Steam Electric Station, past swatches of oak trees and cattle herds bent over the coastal Bermuda grass. Barry Capps is working to keep the truck on the road while drinking coffee from a Styrofoam cup and ticking off the multitude of reasons he believes the jury is still out on mankinds impact on climate change one facet of which involves something he read about Icelands glaciers developing and retracting...
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Obama launching a war on coal? We can only hope
2013-06-29 20:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: President Barack Obama's opponents have derisively called his plans announced last week to combat climate change a "war on coal." It won't be clear for months or years if that's true, but Americans should sincerely hope that it is. Obama's strategy is limited by the need to bypass a do-nothing Congress, but it is a sweeping one. It includes a slew of small measures -- such as increasing the gas mileage of heavy trucks and the energy-efficiency of appliances and encouraging the development and...
World Bank to 'cease providing' funding for new coal projects
2013-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The World Bank is set to consider dramatically cutting down its funding for coal-related power projects, according to a draft strategy document leaked this week. The bank`s continued focus on coal projects, particularly in poor countries, has been a key frustration for environmentalists and some development experts, who have warned that such a stance is at odds with the Washington-based multilateral lender's attempts to strengthen its focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation. While...
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U.S. and World Bank might stop financing dirty coal plants
2013-06-28 21:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The World Bank says it cares about climate change, so why is it providing loans to help developing countries build coal power plants? Same goes for America`s support for coal plants abroad. In recognition of this glaring climate policy disconnect, both the World Bank and the Obama administration appear to be finally backing away from financial support of such dirty energy enterprises. From Bloomberg: The World Bank plans to restrict its financing of coal-fired power plants to rare circumstances,...
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