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Australia: Coalition expected to drop refrigerant gases from carbon tax repeal laws
2014-07-13 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Refrigerant gases have apparently been struck out of the carbon tax repeal bills legal requirement for price cuts to be passed on to consumers, even though they were at the centre of the Abbott oppositions dire warnings about price hikes. As opposition leader, Tony Abbott repeatedly warned that big increases in the cost of refrigerant gases would flow straight through to the price of food and other goods. It is a hit on their refrigerant costs. Refrigerant gases are going up almost five...
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Coal-reliant Pennsylvania faces election showdown over EPA, natural gas and carbon trading
2014-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The nation's third-largest carbon dioxide-emitting state is in the middle of a fierce election fight that could determine whether it stays on its current path of challenging U.S. EPA climate rules, or instead slows fossil fuel development and enters a regional carbon trading program. In coal-reliant Pennsylvania, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett -- who has overseen the state's natural gas boom and called the EPA proposed carbon rule on existing power plants a "cap-and-trade tax" -- is facing a formidable...
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Is the carbon bubble about to bust? One unlikely pundit thinks so
2014-07-12 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As Grist readers, I`m sure you`ve heard of the "carbon bubble" - the idea that the oil, gas, and coal industries are overvalued in the market because that value is calculated using energy reserves that they won`t be able to sell in any future that isn`t a climate apocalypse. I`ve read a lot of articles about the carbon bubble, but recently I ran across a particularly interesting one, written by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Daily Telegraph - which, as Britain`s Tory paper, isn`t exactly a hotbed...
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Discovery helps biologists understand how plants respond to rising levels of carbon dioxide
2014-07-11 17:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Biologists from San Diego could help scientists understand how the burning of fossil fuels affects plants and help engineer ways to improve crops. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have published a paper in the journal Nature regarding the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants. This will help biologists know more about how climate change and the rising levels of CO2 are affecting plants and crops. It could help scientists to engineer plants in such a way that they could...
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United Kingdom: Labour promises to invest in carbon capture and storage
2014-07-11 10:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Labour party has pledged to mobilise investment in the development of carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) if it wins the next general election. In a policy position paper published on Wednesday, Labour says that the technology which has yet to be proven at a commercial scale -- is a necessity, not an option in the rush to decarbonize the UKs energy sector. Installed at a fossil fuel power plant, CCS technology would capture carbon emissions at the source, and allow them to...
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