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Obama administration sets agenda to modernize energy infrastructure
2015-04-21 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Obama administration on Tuesday announced plans to modernize the country's aging energy infrastructure and make it more resilient to challenges ranging from extreme weather to changing domestic energy production. The Quadrennial Energy Review, more than a year in the making, recommends a program that would accelerate natural gas pipeline replacement, modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and award up to $350 million to help states improve the reliability of their electricity delivery. The...
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US carbon emissions are rising again. Can Obama push them back down?
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: One of the most promising climate-change stories of the last decade was the steep plunge in US carbon dioxide emissions after 2005. Before then, US emissions had been rising relentlessly for decades. Suddenly, they were falling. That drop was partly due to the US fracking boom, which created a glut of cheap natural gas and spurred utilities to burn less coal for electricity. It was partly due to various clean-energy and efficiency measures. And it was partly making real progress on global warming....
Major changes will be needed for US power infrastructure, says Obama report
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The U.S. electric grid will require major changes to reposition itself for the future challenges of climate change, new technologies, and national security in coming decades, according to a first-ever Quadrennial Energy Review released by the Obama administration. The report says our system for getting electricity stands at a strategic inflection point and requires significant change in order to accommodate more renewables and the growth of distributed energy technologies like rooftop solar....
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Obama Says Climate Change Can No Longer Be Ignored as Jeb Bush Admits Hes Concerned
2015-04-20 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In honor of Earth Day this Wednesday, President Obamas weekly Saturday morning address to the nation was titled Climate Change Can No Longer Be Ignored. He opened with an oblique dig at Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, head of the Senate Environment Committee, who disproved global warming on the floor of the Senate by throwing a snowball. 2014 was the planets warmest year on record, said Obama. Fourteen of the 15 hottest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century....
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Obama: 'No Greater Threat' to Planet than Climate Change
2015-04-20 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Global warming certainly has one politician's attention. In his weekly address President Obama cited climate change as Earth's single biggest threat. Today, theres no greater threat to our planet than climate change, Obama said. Climate change can no longer be denied or ignored. Obama pointed out that 2014 was the warmest year on record, and that 14 of the 15 hottest years measured have occurred since the start of this century. The first three months of 2015 have been the hottest start...
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