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Obama to unveil tougher greenhouse gas plan
2015-08-03 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: U.S. President Barack Obama will unveil on Monday the final version of his plan to tackle greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, kicking off what is expected to be a tumultuous legal battle against federal environmental regulators by the coal industry and its political allies. The revised Clean Power Plan will seek to slash carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels, a 9-per-cent increase over a previous proposal, a senior White House official said,...
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Climate change: Obama orders steeper cuts from power plants
2015-08-02 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states. In finalizing the unprecedented pollution controls, Obama was installing the core of his ambitious and controversial plan to drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, as he works to secure a legacy on fighting global warming. Yet it will be up to...
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Obama touts climate rule ahead of Monday launch
2015-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama set the stage on Sunday for the release of the nation's most ambitious environmental regulation in decades -- a crackdown on power plants' greenhouse gas emissions that the administration hopes will put the U.S. in striking distance of achieving a global agreement to combat climate change. The new rules and a package of incentives that Obama will announce on Monday are poised to reshape the energy industry for the coming decades, pushing states to shun coal and instead turn...
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Obama to require steeper emissions cuts from US power plants
2015-08-02 06:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday, in what the president called the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to fight global warming. A year after proposing unprecedented carbon dioxide limits, Obama was poised to finalize the rule at a White House event on Monday. In a video posted to Facebook, Obama said the limits were backed up by decades of data...
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40 Hour Standoff Ends Call Obama to Cancel Shell Arctic Drilling Plans
2015-07-31 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: After a 40-hour blockade stopping Shells Fennica icebreaker from leaving port, 26 Greenpeace USA activists have come down from the St Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon, including the 13 climbers that repelled from the bridge. Shell`s vessel did finally make its way on Thursday under the Portland bridge and out to sea as the demonstrators were preparing to leave the bridge. A federal judge in Alaska yesterday ordered Greenpeace USA to remove the climbers or face a series of escalating fines,...
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