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Obama delays key power plant rule of signature climate change plan
2014-09-16 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama applied the brakes to the most critical component of his climate change plan on Tuesday, slowing the process of setting new rules cutting carbon pollution from power plants, and casting a shadow over a landmark United Nations summit on global warming. The proposed power plant rules were meant to be the signature environmental accomplishment of Obamas second term. The threat of a delay in their implementation comes just one week before a heavily anticipated UN summit where officials...
Obama Announces Coolant Phase-Out to Help in Global-Warming Fight
2014-09-16 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsmax: President Barack Obama, whose administration is moving quickly to enhance his environmental legacy, wants a quicker phase-out of the popular coolant chemicals used in homes and offices amid concerns they are hastening global warming, the Washington Post reports. The administration is seeking voluntary commitments from chemical manufacturers and retailers as it seeks to draw down the use of R-134a chemicals, known more widely as hydroflurocarbons (HFC), which have replaced ozone-damaging coolant...
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Obama to assign 3,000 military personnel to fight Ebola
2014-09-16 07:48:10| Biotech - Topix.net
President Barack Obama embarks on a two-day U.S. road trip Tuesday to asses and amplify his government's response to two unconnected overseas emergencies -- the Ebola outbreak in Africa and Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Syria. On Tuesday, Obama will announce significant new U.S. efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic, which has moved quickly across the western part of Africa and sent governments there scrambling to respond.
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Obama Plans Major Ebola Offensive
2014-09-15 04:30:08| Biotech - Topix.net
President Barack Obama plans to dramatically boost the U.S. effort to mitigate the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including greater involvement of the U.S. military, people familiar with the proposal said. Mr. Obama is expected to detail the plan during a visit Tuesday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, these people said.
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As Obama admin orders carbon cuts, it sells coal rights
2014-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: The desolate stretch of Highway 133 crests a Rocky Mountain pass and settles into a valley where some of the world's most valuable coal is located -- and the landowner is the US taxpayer. If there is a "war on coal' by President Obama, as his critics say, then this might be a place to wage it. Obama has, after all, approved regulations designed to cut global-warming carbon emissions by nearly one-third, and he is preparing to attend a Sept. 23 United Nations climate summit at which he will renew...
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