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Obama says carbon key to Keystone fate
2013-06-25 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Houston Chronicle: President Barack Obama on Tuesday put climate change at the center of the heated debate over the Keystone XL pipeline by insisting in a major policy speech that the project's fate hinges on how much carbon dioxide it contributes to the atmosphere. "The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical in determining whether this project will be allowed to go forward," Obama said as he unveiled a broad plan for combatting global warming. Obama vowed that his administration...
Carbon Regulations and Keystone Silence: Previewing Obamas Climate Speech
2013-06-25 04:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: In just a few hours President Obama will give what the White House is calling a major speech on climate change at Georgetown University--and for his increasingly wobbly environmental supporters, this is a long time coming. The White House complains that it doesn`t get enough credit for its environmental accomplishments: reducing carbon emissions, negotiating tough new auto fuel efficiency standards and pouring billions upon billions of dollars of funding into renewable energy research and deployment....
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Canada: British Columbia. plans to promote carbon taxes
2013-06-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Globe and Mail: British Columbia will ratchet up pressure on provinces and other jurisdictions in North America to adopt a B.C.-style carbon tax, the Christy Clark government says. Mary Polak, the new Environment Minister, has been empowered by the Premier to go out and sell the idea in hopes they will take up such measures. "We're just trying to make sure, as we would in any other kind of trading field, that we're not put at a competitive disadvantage with respect to others," she said in an interview. The...
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Obama Said to Solicit States on Cutting Carbon Emissions
2013-06-24 13:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The Obama administration plans to solicit ideas from states on how to cut greenhouse-gas emissions as it seeks to impose standards for carbon dioxide on new and existing electric-power plants, according to people briefed on the plans. President Barack Obama is set to deliver an address on climate change today, which will probably include measures to curb carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, the largest source of emissions in the U.S. The administration is also considering delaying a rule...
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Parliament committee votes to prop up EU's ailing carbon market
2013-06-24 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: The European Parliament's Environment Committee has given its support to a compromise plan to boost the price of allowances on the EU's carbon market. To become law, the proposal to temporarily remove some of the glut of permits that has weighed on prices still needs to win backing from a plenary session of the parliament next month in Strasbourg, and from EU member states. Traders said the market had already priced in a positive vote and allowances on the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)...
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