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Climate: China's emissions overestimated
2015-08-19 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The United Nations and other international bodies have vastly overestimated China's greenhouse gas emissions over the last decade or more, according to a study released Wednesday. In 2013, for example, China's total carbon emissions were 14 percent less than the figures used by the UN's panel of experts tasked with providing the scientific framework for global climate talks, the research showed. From 2000 to 2013, the country produced nearly three billion tonnes less carbon than previously...
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Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal To Reduce Greenhouse Emissions From US Power Plants
2015-08-03 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama revealed the final version of his clean power plan to dramatically cut emissions from US power plants on Monday, calling it a moral obligation. Speaking at the White House, Obama said the unprecedented carbon dioxide limits are the "the single most important step" America has ever taken to fight climate change, while warning that the problem was so large hat the world must get it right quickly or it may become impossible to reverse. "There is such a thing as being too...
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Obama's climate plan seeks to slash emissions from power plants
2015-08-02 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The White House said it will launch the first ever rule on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants, a plan that opponents in the coal industry and their political allies will fight in the courts. In a fact sheet issued on Sunday, the White House said President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan will cut emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The plan cuts emissions about 9 percent deeper than a last year's draft, the White House said. But it gives states two years more to cut...
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EPA seeks cut in truck emissions in latest climate change push
2015-06-19 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The Obama administration issued its latest climate change proposal on Friday, calling for a hike in fuel efficiency requirements for heavy-duty trucks in a bid to slash pollution from the vehicles that represent about a fifth of the nations transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed EPA rule comes on the heels of its announcement that it planned to regulate greenhouse gas emission from airplanes and just weeks before it unveils the final climate change rules for the nations...
Methane emissions raise doubts about gas industry's climate advantage
2015-06-03 23:59:51| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The grainy black and white photograph taken with an infrared camera shows a smoky haze wafting from a natural gas storage tank. That cloud is methane escaping, said Philip Swanson, administrator of a United Nations-led industry partnership aimed at curbing leakage of the primary component of natural gas.
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