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How President Obama Can Stop Failing and Start Winning on Climate Change
2013-01-25 10:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: President Obama has promised action to confront climate change. To do that, he must end the detrimental "all of the above" energy policy of his first term. If you'd like to co-sign the open letter and urge the president to take bold action to confront climate change now, you can add your name here. Dear President Obama, It was with great relief and gratitude that we welcomed, at long last, a clarion call in your inaugural address to "respond to the threat of climate change" -- the greatest...
Buoyed by Obama, leaders press for climate action
2013-01-25 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Hurricanes, floods, droughts and a newly climate-conscious Barack Obama are helping boost efforts around the world to fight climate change. Top political and financial leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos say recent natural disasters, along with Obamas inauguration announcement this week that hes making the battle against rising temperatures a pillar of his second term, could rev up the glacially slow climate pact negotiations and revive fundraising for global action to cool the planet....
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Obama climate push to tie environment, jobs -White House adviser
2013-01-25 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama will renew his push to spur investment in renewable energy projects that create jobs as a key part of his second-term strategy for tackling climate change, a top White House policy adviser said on Thursday. This time around, though, Obama won't have the $90 billion in economic stimulus funds that his administration earlier pumped into clean energy and "green jobs" projects. Instead, Obama wants to see "targeted and smart" investments in research and demonstration projects,...
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How Obama Could Nix the Keystone Pipeline (And Why He Won't)
2013-01-24 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Wire: President Obama will be confronted with the first big policy decision of his second term where environmentalists and business interests are at odds: the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Despite promising to act on climate change in his inaugural speech, all signs point to the controversial project going forward. On Wednesday, a majority of Senators (44 Republicans and nine Democrats) sent a letter to President Obama urging him to move forward on Keystone XL, a massive pipeline that would carry oil from...
Obama faces Keystone dilemma after Senate urges pipeline approval
2013-01-24 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama faced intense pressure to break with his inauguration day promise on climate change on Thursday, after a bipartisan majority in the Senate urged approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. The letter from 53 senators said there was no reason for Obama to deny the pipeline as campaigners are demanding because the project had now undergone exhaustive environmental review. The letter, signed by Democrats as well as Republicans, underlined the high political cost to Obama of living up...
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