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Australia Repeals Price on Carbon, Climate Disaster Predicted
2014-07-18 08:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Australia`s Senate has voted to repeal the price on emissions of the climate-warming gas carbon dioxide, a levy on the biggest polluters passed by the previous Labor government. The Yallourn Power Station burns brown coal to provide eight percent of Australia`s power. (Photo by Philip Morgan) Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose Liberal-National coalition unseated Labor in last year`s election, succeeded in achieving the repeal, a central goal of his government. The Senate voted 39 to 32 on...
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Australia repeals its carbon tax and triggers international debate
2014-07-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Australia's government has voted to repeal a carbon tax on that country's biggest greenhouse gas polluters, ending one bitter domestic battle but opening up new fronts in the climate war both at home and internationally. Diplomats negotiating a new global treaty denounced the repeal, saying Australia's move slows down their momentum. In the United States, Senate Democrats insisted Australia's actions will have no implications for President Obama's climate change regulations, while Republicans...
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Australia repeals carbon tax, scientists freak out
2014-07-17 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The cartoonish stereotype of Australia of yesteryear featured a rough-headed bloke in an Akubra hat wrangling crocodiles. That image has finally been scrubbed from our collective memories -- only to be replaced with something worse. Today, when we read news dispatches from Australia, we`re seeing a dunderheaded prime minister cartoonishly wrangling commonsense, becoming the first leader in the warming world to repeal a price on carbon. It`s like George W. Bush, Crocodile Dundee-style. Conservative...
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Australia repeals carbon tax
2014-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: After almost a decade of heated political debate, Australia has become the world's first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions. In a vote that could highlight the difficulty in implementing additional measures to reduce carbon emissions ahead of global climate talks next year in Paris, Australia's Senate on Thursday voted 39-32 to repeal a politically divisive carbon emissions price that contributed to the fall from power of three Australian leaders...
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Australia: Australia repeals maligned 2-year-old carbon tax
2014-07-17 10:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Australia's government repealed a much-maligned carbon tax on the nation's worst greenhouse gas polluters on Thursday, ending years of contention over a measure that became political poison for the lawmakers who imposed it. The Senate voted 39 to 32 to axe the 24.15 Australian dollar ($22.60) tax per metric ton of carbon dioxide that was introduced by the center-left Labor government in July 2012. Conservative lawmakers burst into applause as the final tally was announced. Prime Minister Tony...
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