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Texas Environmental Leaders Applaud Landmark Climate Change Initiative
2014-06-09 11:14:37| pollutiononline Home Page
The Obama administration today announced its landmark climate change initiative – the first-ever protection against carbon emissions from existing power plants
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Study: Man, not climate change, killed the Mammoths
2014-06-08 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Network: The verdict is in, and as far as a new study goes, mankind, not climate change, is guilty of driving mammoths to extinction. "We consistently find very large rates of extinction in areas where there had been no contact between wildlife and primitive human races, and which were suddenly confronted by fully developed modern humans," one of the study's authors, Jens-Christian Svenning of Aarhus University, told the Daily Mail. "In general, at least 30 per cent of the large species of animals disappeared...
Climate Change Deniers Frustrating Obama
2014-06-08 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian Liberty Voice: Look, its frustrating when the science is in front of us, said President Barack Obama in an interview with the New York Times. When asked if he wanted to just go off on the climate change deniers that are in Congress, Obama responded yeah, absolutely. On June 2 Obama and his administration took what some consider to be a very promising step in the direction of reducing our carbon emissions as a nation, by mandating new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that focus mainly...
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Climate change and coal
2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rapid City Journal: Western coal production is expected to fall by over 30 percent in 2020 due to new federal pollution standards proposed for power plants, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projections. The decline is anticipated to be offset in part by a rise in natural gas fired generation, which the EPA estimates may increase as much as 18 to 19 percent by 2030. The countervailing numbers highlight the dilemma facing Wyoming. The new pollution standards would cut carbon dioxide emissions at...
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Democrats retain language recognizing climate change, need for greenhouse gas standards
2014-06-08 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Missoulian: The subjects of climate change and environmental policy evoked another lively discussion at the state Democratic Partys platform convention here Saturday, as delegates debated how and where they should be emphasized in the platform. In the end, the platform a statement of the partys ideals and positions on issues remained largely unchanged on climate change, including a section that says the party recognizes climate change as a problem and supports standards for reducing greenhouse gases...
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