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Keystone XL pipeline, climate change among second-term energy challenges for Obama
2013-01-17 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's second-term energy agenda is taking shape and, despite the departure of key Cabinet officials, it looks a lot like the first: more reliance on renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, and expanded production of oil and natural gas. Obama also is promising to address climate change, an issue he has acknowledged was sometimes overlooked during his first term. "The president has been clear that tackling climate change and enhancing energy security will be among his...
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Obama to confront oil pipeline, climate change
2013-01-17 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's second-term energy agenda is taking shape and, despite the departure of key Cabinet officials, it looks a lot like the first: more reliance on renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, and expanded production of oil and natural gas. Obama also is promising to address climate change, an issue he has acknowledged was sometimes overlooked during his first term. ''The president has been clear that tackling climate change and enhancing energy security will be among...
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Obama inauguration features 'citizen co-chairs'
2013-01-17 16:32:55| Apparel - Topix.net
The co-chairs are people who have been involved in Obama efforts on health care, education assistance, energy developments, ending the military's ban on gays, and winding down the war in Afghanistan.
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Obama On Climate Change Faces High Expectations, And High Hurdles, In Second Term
2013-01-17 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future generations a nation not only free of debt and unencumbered by inequality, but also one "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." The laws of both physics and politics suggest he'll have his work cut out for him, and his second-term success will surely be measured on far more concrete terms. The president, after all, faces several...
Saskatchewan leader urges Obama to approve Keystone XL pipeline
2013-01-17 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The premier of Saskatchewan led 10 U.S. state governors on Thursday in urging President Barack Obama to approve TransCanada Corp's contentious and long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline, citing energy-security benefits in both countries. Saskatchewan does not have the massive oil sands resources that neighboring Alberta does and which would move in large volumes to the southern United States in the proposed $5.3 billion conduit. But it does have some of the Bakken light oil reserves that would...
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