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Obama climate change agenda faces first Supreme Court test
2014-02-24 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court considers on Monday whether President Barack Obama's administration overstepped its authority by imposing new regulations to reduce pollution in response to climate change. In a 90-minute oral argument, extended from 60 minutes because many parties are involved, the justices will examine a relatively narrow challenge by industry groups and Republican-leaning states to one aspect of a suite of regulations issued by Obama's Democratic administration in 2009 and 2010. The...
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Obama's efforts on climate change may not be enough
2014-02-24 03:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: When Barack Obama took office in 2009, it was clear that if he could do four big things, his presidency would probably be judged a success. The first, of course, was to pull the country out of its desperate economic crisis. The second was to extricate it from the Iraq War. The third was to finally achieve comprehensive health care reform. And the fourth was to make meaningful progress on arresting global warming. This last challenge was in some ways easiest to ignore: While you were shoveling snow...
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Climate change unlikely to reduce UK's excess winter death rate, study reports
2014-02-23 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: New research published today has found that climate change is unlikely to reduce the UK's excess winter death rate as previously thought. The study is published in the journal Nature Climate Change and debunks the widely held view that warmer winters will cut the number of deaths normally seen at the coldest time of year. Analysing data from the past 60 years, researchers at the University of Exeter and University College London (UCL) looked at how the winter death rate has changed over time,...
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German Ambassador calls on politicians curb climate change risks to reduce health costs
2014-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dhaka Tribune: Overall medical costs for the population of Bangladesh are likely to shoot upwards if climate change issues are not addressed immediately, said German Ambassador to Bangladesh Albrecht Conze. He made the remark at the launching ceremony of a book titled "Climate Change and Bangladesh,' launched at the Centre for Development Communication (CDC) at the capital's CIRDAP auditorium yesterday. "People will be affected by different diseases that are born from environment pollution. The local politicians...
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Environmental advocates target climate change as Democratic election issue
2014-02-23 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A Democratic fundraiser last week at billionaire Tom Steyer's home amounted to a summit between Washington's liberal elite and San Francisco's climate intelligencia. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), six other senators and a 2014 Senate candidate took in views of the Golden Gate Bridge with former vice president Al Gore and some of the nation's richest environmentalist donors. The $400,000 fundraiser, held for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, included remarks from...
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