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Obama plans 'commonsense' climate action
2013-06-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: US President Barack Obama will outline "commonsense" steps to tackle climate change in the weeks ahead, White House energy adviser Heather Zichal said, confirming what the president is telling donors privately. The administration plans include measures that don't require congressional action, such as pushing energy efficiency standards for appliances, clean-energy production on public lands and regulations to curb carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, she said today in Washington. Obama...
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Obama Prepares to Turn Focus to Climate Change
2013-06-20 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: U.S. President Barack Obama will soon announce a set of proposals aimed at fulfilling his second-term promise to curb the growing threat of climate change. Heather Zichal, the president's chief advisor on energy and climate change, told a forum in Washington Wednesday that Obama plans to issue a series of executive orders to accelerate clean energy development and boost the energy efficiency of appliances and buildings. Zichal also said the Environmental Protection Agency will use its authority...
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Obama Is Getting Ready to Rein In Power Plant Pollution
2013-06-20 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Atlantic Wire: Hours afterpromisingin Berlin that action was coming on climate change, Barack Obama is preparing to make what could be the biggest environmental move of his presidency. White House officials say the President is planning to implement new regulations that would significantly reduce carbon emissions on existing power plants. The plan -which was hinted at in The Los Angeles Times earlier this week - involves instituting new rules through the Environmental Protection Agency, which doesn't require the...
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Billionaire Steyer Rejects Trade With Obama on Keystone
2013-06-20 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas adoption of measures to combat climate change shouldnt be seen as a trade off for approving the Keystone XL pipeline, a top donor to his re-election campaign said. Hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer unveiled a social-media campaign today meant to organize supporters and pressure the president to reject the pipeline, which would carry oil sands from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Steyer hired a former Obama campaign digital producer, Tara McGowan, to help...
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Obama to tap executive powers to curb emissions blamed for global warming
2013-06-20 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more -- and we will do more," Obama said Wednesday in Berlin. Obama's senior energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, said the plan would boost energy efficiency of appliances and buildings, expand renewable energy and use the Environmental Protection Agency's authority under...
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