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With Keystone rebuff, Obama aims for more leverage and credibility in global climate talks
2015-11-07 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord. Rejecting Keystone, the proposed 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., was the latest in a long and growing list of steps Obama has taken...
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Australia: Climate summit held by business and green groups to end six-year policy war
2015-11-06 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leaders from business, welfare, the conservation movement, the electricity sector and the union movement have moved to try to fill Australias climate policy vacuum by starting a new slogan-free debate to help political parties find workable greenhouse policies. Mirroring the Turnbull governments tax debate, in which all policy options are back on the table, the groups commissioned major consultancies to present on six climate policy options at a special closed-door summit this week. They intend...
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Obama: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Undercut U.S. Leadership On Climate Change
2015-11-06 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama announced Friday that he rejected a permit to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The controversial project would have carried oil harvested from tar sands in Canada.
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US rejects Keystone XL pipeline, citing combatting climate change as critical factor; Kerry: arguments pro and con overstated
2015-11-06 20:55:32| Green Car Congress
US rejects Keystone XL pipeline, citing combatting climate change as critical factor; Kerry: arguments pro and con overstated
2015-11-06 20:55:32| Green Car Congress
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