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Canada: Keystone for climate: Could Obama craft a horse trade?
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: President Barack Obama`s pledge to combat climate change - even as his administration weighs a verdict on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline - has some analysts buzzing about a possible horse trade. The possible deal could go down like this: First, Obama`s EPA proposes greenhouse gas emission standards for existing power plants, to the delight of environmentalists who note that the largest single stationary source of pollution is from coal-fired facilities already in use. Then, the...
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Keystone XL moves to centre stage of Washington political drama
2013-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Beacon News: President Barack Obama`s State of the Union clarion call for action on environmental issues has put climate change at centre stage in the U.S. capital _ and the Keystone XL pipeline is once again playing the role of the villain. As the Government Accountability Office added climate change to its list of "high risk" fiscal issues that threaten big costs to taxpayers, two liberal U.S. senators introduced legislation Thursday aimed at putting a price on carbon. The bill from Bernie Sanders, an...
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Why I Came to Washington to Protest the Keystone Pipeline
2013-02-15 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Its not exactly as if hell has frozen over, for me, an oil and gas geologist to be protesting -- maybe even beyond the extent allowable by law the folly of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. Ive hugged a tree or two before, written some letters opposing this or that dam, mine, clear-cut, or whatnot. Ive lived the last 26 years in the backwoods of northwest Montana, writing pretty little stories, poems and essays about the million-acre garden of the Yaak Valley, a lush wild rainforest of a place,...
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RFK Jr. arrested: Celebs, enviros arrested at Keystone pipeline protest
2013-02-15 03:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Celebrities and environmental activists, including lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and civil rights leader Julian Bond, were arrested Wednesday after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune also was arrested -- the first time in the group's 120-year history that a club leader was arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved the action as a sign of its opposition to...
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Americans Back Keystone XL; Kerry Promises Action In Near Term
2013-02-14 12:00:00| OGI
Sierra Club executive director, actress arrested at White House protest.
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