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Obama and Congress must fight climate change like they do terrorism
2013-06-26 15:38:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: For a man with his hands tied, President Obama is offering a decent enough plan to fight climate change. In a speech today, hes expected to announce federal regulation of greenhouse gases at existing coal-fired power plants, increased energy standards for buildings and appliances, and greater development of renewable energy on federal lands. These are moves that he can try without approval from Congress. And while they are halfway measures, they are better than no measures. But imagine if his...
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Climate change debate is indeed obsolete
2013-06-26 15:38:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bennington Banner: Whether you call it climate change, global warming or just plain crazy weather, its clear the climate in Vermont and in the rest of the country has changed quite a bit over the last 50 years. Some dismiss global warming as political positioning or an extremist explanation for natural phenomena. President Barack Obama on Tuesday asserted just the opposite. During a speech at Georgetown University, Obama said the debate over climate change and its causes is obsolete and announced a plan to tackle...
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Barack Obama unveils strict new US climate change measures to Congress
2013-06-26 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Facing down a recalcitrant US Congress as well as a sceptical American public, President Barack Obama has unveiled a swathe of measures designed finally to put his administrations back into tackling global warming, notably imposing strict new curbs on carbon dioxide emissions from electricity-generating plants. The measures, which can be implemented without recourse to any votes by Congress, had been widely expected and were harshly criticised by the presidents Republican critics even before he...
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Coal Industry Concerned By Obama's Climate Change Plans
2013-06-26 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging plan to address climate change. Rather than taking it to Congress, Obama is implementing the plan on his own. The president wants the Environmental Protection Agency to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The biggest source of those emissions is coal-fired facilities.
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Climate change: Obama announces new curbs on existing power plants
2013-06-26 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Seeking to propel the US faster into the fray on curbing climate change, President Obama laid out an aggressive plan Tuesday to sharply curb smokestack emissions of existing coal-fired power plants and to double wind, solar, and other renewable energy production from todays levels. Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans including...
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