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Australia Scraps Carbon Price as Abbott Meets Election Pledge
2014-07-17 05:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australias Senate voted to scrap the nations price on carbon, fulfilling a key election pledge by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and leaving the nation without an approved mechanism to tackle emissions. The repeal bill was passed 39 votes to 32 in the 76-member upper house today, dismantling a law introduced by the previous Labor government that initially charged polluters A$23 ($21.50) per ton of greenhouse gases emitted. Repealing the carbon price may put Australia, which is hosting the Group...
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Australia kills off carbon tax
2014-07-17 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias carbon price has been repealed, leaving the nation with no legislated policy to achieve even the minimum 5% greenhouse emissions reduction target it has inscribed in international agreements. After eight years of bitter political debate, during which climate policy dominated three election campaigns and contributed to the demise of two prime ministers, after last weeks Senate drama in which the repeal was again defeated and this weeks lengthy last gasp debate, the Senate has now...
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Australian parliament repeals carbon tax, emissions trading scheme
2014-07-17 03:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Australian Senate voted on Thursday to scrap the country's carbon tax and plans for emissions trading, a major victory for conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott that leaves uncertainty about how Australia will meet its carbon reduction goals.
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CF Industries Sells Carbon Credits to Chevrolet and Donates Proceeds to FFA
2014-07-16 23:05:15| Chemicals - Topix.net
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. , a global leader in nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing, has completed the sale of a large block of carbon reduction credits to Chevrolet.
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$1-Billion Powerplant Project on Hold over "Carbon Offsets"
2014-07-15 20:52:14| ENR.com: Headline News
Early-stage construction of an incinerator and powerplant project near Baltimore is at a standstill after the Maryland Dept. of the Environment issued a stop-work order over emissions reductions credits (ERC) needed to comply with restrictions on its air quality permit.
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