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How Much Carbon Do Your States Coal Plants Emit?
2014-06-03 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a goal of decreasing carbon emissions by 30 percent--compared to 2005 levels--by 2030, states will be given the flexibility to devise their own plans. Clearly, some will have more work to do than others. Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of the countrys emissions, and states like West Virginia and Kentucky live and die by the dirty source, getting 95 and 90 percent of their power from it, respectively, according to...
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A huge majority of Americans support regulating carbon from power plants
2014-06-03 15:41:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A lopsided and bipartisan majority of Americans support federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds most are willing to stomach a higher energy bill to pay for it. Fully 70 percent say the federal government should require limits to greenhouse gases from existing power plants, the focus of a new rule announced Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency. An identical 70 percent supports requiring states to limit the amount of greenhouse...
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Louisiana lawmakers quick condemn Obama administration plan to reduce carbon emissions
2014-06-03 15:41:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: Louisiana congressional members Monday quickly condemned the Obama administrations bold plan to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30 percent in 16 years. But others in Congress said the plan, by targeting coal-fired power plants, could be a big boom for natural gas and improve air quality throughout the United States. Environmental groups also welcomed the regulations. (Read a story on reaction by environmental organizations.) The regulation represents President Barack Obama's...
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Florida must cut carbon under Obama climate plan
2014-06-03 15:41:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Florida's heavy reliance on natural gas could make cutting carbon pollution under an ambitious plan unveiled Monday by the Obama administration easier to swallow. The complex rule, touted as the strongest federal effort yet to combat climate change by regulating power plant carbon emissions for the first time, calls for reducing emissions nationally by 30 percent by 2030. The rule covers all fossil fuel-powered plants, which generate about 6 percent of the planet's greenhouse gases, but chiefly...
One Day After U.S. Announces Emissions Target, China Says Carbon Cap Is On The Way
2014-06-03 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: One day after the United States proposed rules to limit the amount of carbon emitted from existing power plants, China said it will limit its total CO2 emissions for the first time, likely starting in 2016 with the announcement of their next five-year plan. China, the world`s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and the U.S., the second biggest, account for about 42 percent of global emissions. The back-to-back signalling of serious domestic efforts to reduce emissions could signal a much-needed boost...
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