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Strong power plant carbon limits critical for climate
2013-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cements the urgency for U.S. leaders to move boldly and quickly on climate change, and the most logical place to start is the nation's fleet of power plants. Recently, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, groups involved with climate change cheered the announcement. Cleaning up power plants is an essential first step to addressing climate...
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Global push for carbon pricing grows
2013-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: DAVID MARK: The election of the Coalition Government and a slew of new senators opposed to the carbon tax means Australia's price on carbon will almost certainly go next year. And yet the global push in favour of carbon markets only appears to be getting stronger. This week the IMF, the World Bank and the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) all stressed the need for carbon pricing to address climate change. And a new survey's found that there are high expectations...
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Guardian Energy Teams Up With ENERGY STAR To Reduce Carbon Footprint
2013-10-11 05:24:25| pollutiononline News Articles
Guardian Energy pledged to support the ENERGY STAR Low Carbon IT Campaign in conjunction with efforts to provide energy-efficiency products and services to the New England area
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Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Are Lagging Worldwide, Study Finds
2013-10-10 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Major projects aiming at capturing and burying carbon dioxide underground have slowed worldwide, according to a study by the Global CCS Institute in Australia. Despite the common view among experts that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies could play a crucial role in slowing the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, the number of major CCS projects fell from 75 to 65 over the past year. Although the U.S. currently leads the world in CCS projects, most of them involve pumping carbon into...
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EU Can Keep Airline Carbon Plan Using UN Credits, IETA Says
2013-10-10 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Europe may need to let airlines use United Nations credits to meet pollution caps after countries spurned the blocs plan to apply its carbon market to overseas flights, according to the biggest emissions trading lobby group. Theres an opening for the European Union to negotiate with other countries on airlines compliance with its greenhouse-gas limits, said Dirk Forrister, the president of the International Emission Trading Association in Geneva. One option is to allow flights from developing...
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