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US sets limits for power plants' carbon emissions
2013-09-22 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: The US government has announced a system to limit carbon emissions from new US power plants, marking the first time Washington attempting to control the proliferation of greenhouse gases. "The science tells us that climate change is real, human activities are fuelling that change, and we must take action to avoid the most devastating consequences," environmental protection agency administrator Gina McCarthy said during a speech. President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan "calls on federal agencies...
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Carbon limits: Obama's EPA sets terms for tomorrow's cleaner energy industry
2013-09-21 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For citizens of a democratic society, there may be no greater obligation than to act today to protect future generations from the threats of tomorrow. That is what the Obama administration did on Friday, when it stood up to protect our children from the widening ravages of global climate change. It moved to set in place the first-ever limits on dangerous carbon pollution from the power plants we'll build in the years to come. Climate change is the leading environmental challenge of our time....
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Obama copies California greenhouse rules, takes on coal with first-ever carbon limits
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would mean a dim future for coal. The proposal, which sets the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, would help reshape where Americans get electricity, moving from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner...
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Obamas carbon rules seen as new battleground for EPA
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys proposed limits on power-plant emissions blamed for climate change is a broad new battleground for an agency that has spent four decades focused on the local impact of pollutants such as lead, mercury and ozone. The draft regulations, issued yesterday, would impose the first cap on carbon emissions from new power plants, dealing a blow to the market for coal. While restrictions on emissions of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants have been in place for...
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Administration to Press Ahead With Carbon Limits
2013-09-21 04:36:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration on Friday announced that it was not backing down from a confrontation with the coal industry and that it would press ahead with enacting the first federal carbon limits on the nations power companies. The proposed regulations, announced at the National Press Club by Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are an aggressive move by Mr. Obama to bypass Congress on climate change with executive actions he promised in his inaugural address this...
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