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Obama Speech on the President's Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution
2013-06-25 09:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Transcript of President Barack Obama's June 25, 2013, speech at Georgetown University outlining his administrations second-term plans for cutting carbon pollution and developing homegrown energy: THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank your president, President DeGioia, who's here today. I want to thank him for hosting us. I want to thank the many members of my Cabinet and my administration. I want to thank Leader Pelosi and the members of Congress who are here. We are very grateful for their support....
Obama to Outline Ambitious Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
2013-06-25 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama will propose a sweeping plan to address climate change on Tuesday, setting ambitious goals and timetables for a series of executive actions to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and prepare the nation for the ravages of a warming planet. The plan, to be announced in a policy address at Georgetown University, is the most far-reaching effort by an American president to address what many experts consider the defining environmental and economic challenge of the 21st century. But it also...
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...
Obama to outline plan to combat global warming
2013-06-25 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: President Obama plans to roll out the first U.S. regulations designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants by next June, making that the central element of a sweeping initiative to rein in emissions of gases that drive climate change. Obama plans to describe his proposals in a speech Tuesday afternoon at Georgetown Universityin Washington, D.C. He is expected to unveil a strategy that works across the federal government to pare greenhouse gases sharply by the end of the decade,...
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Why the Obama climate change plan matters
2013-06-25 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Trailing a big set-piece political speech is always a high risk strategy. You allow your opponents to get their attacks in before you have even taken the podium, you set expectations so high that even your supporters may be left disappointed, and you dilute the impact of what you are announcing by inviting the media to second guess your intentions. And yet, regardless of what we think we already know about the national climate change plan President Obama will announce later today at a speech at...
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