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Obama says U.S. 'will do more' to fight climate change
2013-06-19 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States understood it had to do more to fight climate change and he pledged that more action was coming. "Our dangerous carbon emissions have come down, but we know we have to do more. And we will do more," he told a crowd of cheering Germans in Berlin. Obama is expected to announce new U.S. measures to fight global warming in the coming weeks.
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Obama to call for nuclear warhead reduction in U.S., Russia
2013-06-19 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: BERLIN--President Obama on Wednesday will call for the reduction of the number of deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads by one-third if the Russian government agrees to similar cuts, reviving a goal outlined early in his presidency to work toward a world without nuclear weapons. Obama will deliver the proposal as part of a much-anticipated speech that will echo with Cold War history and seek to shake Western nations from complacency at a time of economic hardship at home. He will speak at the...
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Obama pick for top U.S. telecom regulator to face Senate panel
2013-06-18 15:35:08| MobileTechNews
Tom Wheeler goes before a Senate panel today in Washington to clarify his positions and industry alliances. Wheeler ran the CTIA until 2004 and is now Obama's pick as the new FCC head.
Obama: NSA spying doesn't mean 'abandoning freedom'
2013-06-18 02:37:34| CNET News.com
In an interview with Charlie Rose, the president maintains that the top-secret NSA spying programs were within the bounds of the law and were intended to protect U.S. citizens. [Read more]
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Al Gore, raising the heat on Obama, calls Keystone an atrocity
2013-06-17 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another, this whole Keystone XL thing is an "atrocity." Al Gore has been calling on Barack Obama to step up the fight against climate change and Keystone, most recently during an interview with The Guardian: The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia, which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the Keystone XL. "I certainly hope that he will veto that now that...
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