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Obama Clean Power Plan Prompts Carbon Tax Chatter
2015-08-04 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: The big national cap-and-trade plan died on Capitol Hill five years ago, and it remains very much dead. A carbon tax--the perennial academic solution for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions--had even less traction in Congress and lives on mostly in think tanks. But President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations for power plants, unveiled on Monday, may give those policies new life at the state level. In a change from the draft plan, the final EPA rule now explicitly says...
Obama plan 'hope' for Paris deal
2015-08-04 13:07:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK government welcomes President Obama's plan to cut greenhouse gases and boost clean power.
Barack Obama hopeful of successful Paris Summit on climate change
2015-08-04 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: US President Barack Obama has exuded confidence of a successful Paris Summit on climate change later this year, with the White House hoping countries like China and India will be fully on board for the "most ambitious international climate change in human history". "In December, with America leading the way, we have a chance to put in place one of the most ambitious international climate agreements in human history," Obama said yesterday at a White House event wherein he announced an ambitious...
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Obama wants you to think his climate plan will be bold. Its not
2015-08-04 08:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: US president Barack Obama's much-heralded attempt to curb carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations is nowhere near enough Later today, US President Barack Obama will unveil the final version of the centrepiece of his climate legacy: the Clean Power Plan. It is designed to speed up the retirement of coal-fired power plants - the most carbon-intensive way of generating electricity - and could more than double the rate of their closures by 2040. In a video preview, Obama called the Clean...
Obama Upbeat on Clean Power Plan, Dismisses Critics
2015-08-04 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: President Barack Obama is convinced that "no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a changing climate," he said today at the White House, launching his plan to cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from power plants 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. Globally, 2014 was the hottest year on record, and 2015 is on track to break that record. Obama pointed out the dangers of the planet`s rising temperature. "The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate...
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