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Obama prepares climate change package
2013-06-19 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama's Berlin speech Wednesday heightened anticipation that he will soon announce a new policy plan on climate change. "For the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late," Obama said in his remarks at the Brandenburg Gate. "That is our job, that is our task -- we have to get to work." One possible component of a new climate change plan: Restrictions on carbon emissions at power plants. Obama pledged...
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'Climate change is the threat of our time': President Obama
2013-06-19 20:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that instantly invited comparisons with visits to the same spot by some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama sought to make a historic imprint of his own, pledging to forge a new pact with Russia to further cut nuclear arsenals and to step up the fight against global warming. President Obama, behind a screen of bullet-proof glass and perspiring under a hot sun, invoked Europes difficult past when it was divided by the wall that once bisected Berlin and...
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Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change
2013-06-19 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama is preparing a major policy push on climate change, including, for the first time, limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants, as well as expanded renewable energy development on public lands and an accelerated effort on energy efficiency in buildings and equipment, senior officials said Wednesday. Heather Zichal, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change, said the president would announce the new policy initiatives in the coming weeks....
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Obama calls climate change the 'global threat of our time' is Berlin address
2013-06-19 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obama on Wednesday called climate change the global threat of our time" in a speech in Berlin. Amid signs the White House is getting ready to unveil new executive-level steps to curb greenhouse gases, Obama linked fighting climate change to peace and justice while calling for bold action. Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet," he said in a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. "The effort to slow climate change requires bold action....
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In the Heat of Berlin, Obama Signals He's Finally Ready to Act on Climate Change
2013-06-19 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: For those waiting for the president to do something on climate change, Obama has offered two signs that action is imminent. The public sign came during his speech today in Berlin. The more subtle signal came in conversation with groups about to sue him for his inaction. Today's Berlin speech drew intentional and obvious comparisons to then-candidate Obama's Berlin appearance in July 2008. And he echoed some of the same themes, including on climate change. In 2008, he said that "all nations - including...
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