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Texas Remains Top Carbon Polluter Despite Declines
2013-10-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Greenhouse gas pollution decreased both nationwide and in Texas last year, but the Lone Star State still leads in carbon dioxide emissions, according to a federal report released Wednesday. Scientists assert that greenhouse gas pollution, most of which is from carbon dioxide emissions, contributes to global warming. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s findings, based on data from more than 8,000 facilities required to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the agency, show a 4.5 percent...
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US carbon dioxide emissions drop 3.8 percent
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A mild winter, new car efficiency standards and the continued switch from power plants run by coal to those fueled by natural gas, a cleaner-burning fuel, were behind a 3.8-percent drop in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2012, announced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration Monday (Oct. 21). The drop was the second largest since 1990, beat out by the drop of 7.1 percent in 2009, which was attributed in large part to the recession that hit the country that year. Emissions have dropped...
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US carbon emissions fall to 18-year low. What's behind it?
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The US economy is expanding. Population is growing. But carbon emissions continue to decline. That's the good news. If the trend continues, it would suggest that post-industrial nations can grow while keeping emissions in check. The bad news is that the reduction is limited to the United States whereas the threat of increasing global emissions is global. Energy-related carbon emissions in the US dropped 3.8 percent in 2012 to levels not seen in 18 years, according to a report released Monday...
U.S. Chamber, Kochs Join Social Cost of Carbon Lobbying Battle
2013-10-22 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The nations most powerful business group has joined the growing ranks of parties formally lobbying against the Obama administration's use of the social cost of carbon, a metric used to help tally the benefits of federal regulations that cut emissions. The U.S. Chamber of Commerces newly filed third-quarter lobbying report says the group has lobbied on legislation that would prevent use of the metric absent a formal rulemaking to create the estimate. More broadly the filing states that the...
UN climate chief says Australian Direct Action 'a lot more expensive' than pricing carbon
2013-10-22 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian Coalition government is set to pay a "high political price" for its Direct Action climate change plan, according to the United Nation's climate chief. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the government's approach could be "a lot more expensive" than pricing carbon and called for rapid cuts in emissions to avoid the kind of "doom and gloom" represented by the New South Wales bushfires. "What the new government in Australia...
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