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Obama leaning toward picking McCarthy for EPA chief - sources
2013-02-01 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama is leaning toward choosing Gina McCarthy, a top official in charge of air quality at the Environmental Protection Agency, to run the EPA in his second term, according to two sources familiar with the matter. McCarthy, currently the assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, would take on the top job as the agency leads Obama's push for measures to fight climate change. McCarthy would replace Lisa Jackson, who said in December she planned to step...
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Obama Pledges to Address Climate, Energy
2013-02-01 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: From Pres. Barack Obamas second inaugural address, January 21, 2013: We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition. We...
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President Obama and climate change
2013-02-01 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: After listening to President Obama's inaugural address, my faith in our nation's resolve to address climate change has been renewed. I have hope. The president devoted one of the longest paragraphs of his speech to the need to confront this crisis. He began with these words, "We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and...
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Al Gore: Very Significant Obama Put Climate Change in his Inaugural Address
2013-01-31 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: Former Vice President Al Gore, arguably the loudest voice on the issue of climate change, told Andrea Mitchell that he thinks there is still time to avoid the worst effects of the changing climate. He said, We do need to act quickly. Were putting an extra 90 million tons of heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere every day, as if its an open sewer. Last week, President Barack Obama stated in his second inaugural address, We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the...
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Pressure builds for Obama to link oil sands pipelines to climate change
2013-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: President Obama hasn't publicly drawn a connection between climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline, but new pressure is building on him and other officials to connect those dots. Protests are springing up from Maine to Washington, D.C. to Oklahoma urging leaders to stop the Keystone XL and other oil sands import projects on climate change grounds. The Texas-bound Keystone XL is the biggest of many projects being proposed to connect Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries and export ports. Protesters...
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