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CBO warns of climate change's budget impact
2016-06-02 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The Congressional Budget Office is warning lawmakers about the fiscal risks of climate change, putting the studiously non-partisan agency at odds with Republican Party orthodoxy. The report, released as hurricane season begins, warns that hurricane damage will "increase significantly in the coming decades" due to climate change. The agency added that humans are playing a role in fueling rising temperatures and a shifting climate. "Human activities around the world - primarily the burning of...
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Youths Who Sued the State Over Climate Change (and Won) Are Going Back to Court "as Soon as Possible"
2016-06-02 21:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Stranger: On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Ecology released an updated draft of the Clean Air Rule, a reintroduced plan to make the state's biggest polluters cut their greenhouse gas emissions that was retracted earlier this year. The new draft, as the Seattle Times noted yesterday, makes concessions to industry groups, and aims to cut carbon emissions from 70 Washington businesses by 1.7 percent annually. But for one group of people deeply invested in the state's climate goals, the new...
AG won't yield climate change documents
2016-06-02 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New Yorks attorney general has refused to send requested documents about his investigation into Exxon Mobil to a congressional committee, saying Congress lacks jurisdiction over state law enforcement. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told Republican U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texan who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, that his letter request May 18 was based on incorrect statements about what hes doing and raises serious constitutional concerns. Smith and 12 other...
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Environmental groups reject Rep. Lamar Smiths request information Exxon Mobil climate case
2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The letter to House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), shown here in August 2010, appeared to be part of a tit-for-tat after state attorneys general sought old Exxon Mobil documents related to climate. (AP) The battle over Exxon Mobil and the issue of climate change took a new turn Wednesday. Environmental groups, citing constitutional rights, said they would not comply with a sweeping request for information from the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology led by Chairman...
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Among climate scientists, a fraught debate on the path forward
2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EENews: Clinton Nuclear Generating Station in Clinton, Ill., the focus of a recent effort to save the state's nuclear power. Photo by Daniel Schwen, courtesy of Wikipedia. In a rented 15-passenger van barreling south on Interstate 55 out of Chicago in April, a group of environmental activists, a legendary scientist and a camera crew embarked on a quixotic rescue effort. Their goal: saving Illinois nukes. "We shouldn't be taking them off the table, in my opinion," said James Hansen, a former scientist...
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