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Obama plan to reduce carbon pollution could see states increase emissions
2014-06-03 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama's plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants places widely different burdens on the states, and in some cases allows states to increase not reduce emissions, according to early analyses of the new rules. The new rules would require only modest effort from heavy coal states such as Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky while requiring big cuts from Texas, Louisiana, and New York, according to an analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance research company. The Bloomberg...
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Poll: Public supports Obama plan curb coal plant emissions
2014-06-03 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post-Intelligencer: A healthy but not top heavy majority of Americans support the Obama administrations plan to cut Americas carbon emissions into the atmosphere by 30 percent in the next decade, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. A coal power plant in Ohio. Power plants are responsible fore more than 40 percent of Americas carbon emissions into the atmosphere. The Obama administration is seeking to cut those emissions by 30 percent. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would allow states...
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Obama climate-change plan overdue
2014-06-03 15:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The climate is changing; it is changing more quickly than at any time in the climatological record. And we are the only plausible cause of such a rapid change. There is no other suspect. We also know that every life form on this planet evolved to thrive in this current climate. Yes, a lot of species would survive in a climate that averaged 15 degrees warmer than this one, or even 30 degrees warmer, just as many would survive in a climate that averaged 30 degrees cooler. It is also true that either...
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Louisiana lawmakers quick condemn Obama administration plan to reduce carbon emissions
2014-06-03 15:41:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: Louisiana congressional members Monday quickly condemned the Obama administrations bold plan to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30 percent in 16 years. But others in Congress said the plan, by targeting coal-fired power plants, could be a big boom for natural gas and improve air quality throughout the United States. Environmental groups also welcomed the regulations. (Read a story on reaction by environmental organizations.) The regulation represents President Barack Obama's...
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Florida must cut carbon under Obama climate plan
2014-06-03 15:41:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Florida's heavy reliance on natural gas could make cutting carbon pollution under an ambitious plan unveiled Monday by the Obama administration easier to swallow. The complex rule, touted as the strongest federal effort yet to combat climate change by regulating power plant carbon emissions for the first time, calls for reducing emissions nationally by 30 percent by 2030. The rule covers all fossil fuel-powered plants, which generate about 6 percent of the planet's greenhouse gases, but chiefly...
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