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President Obama Announces $7-billion Power Africa Plan
2013-07-30 14:54:54| ENR.com: Headline News
New White House initiative will bring public and private funds as well as technical support to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa over five years.
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President Obama Must Step Up and Fight Climate Change
2013-07-17 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post Canada: Presidents have legacies. Imagine if you knew that every major decision you made would be written into history books, and that your grandchildren and great grandchildren could look back and have a pretty good sense as to whether you made their country and the world a better place. For President Obama, one thing that suggests he could end up being on the right side of history is his recent reaffirmation that he intends to be the first American President to take the climate crisis seriously. Now,...
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President Obama & The Complex Psychological Challenges Of Climate Change
2013-06-29 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: When President Obama stood on the steps at Georgetown University giving his climate change speech, he not only confronted thorny problems of policy and politics (as well as the discomfort of giving a major speech outside on an uncomfortably hot day), he also crashed head-first into a thorny thicket of complex psychological challenges that go along with fixing our broken climate. One set of challenges comes from American impatience. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, want everything...
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President Obama, Fracking is Part of the Climate Change Problem, Not Solution
2013-06-25 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earthworks: President Obama should know this. His own agencies are effectively telling him so. NOAA studies based on actual measurements of methane emissions from natural gas development, transport and consumption, report that the methane leakage rate is much higher than commonly assumed. Its so high, in fact, that natural gas--from gas well to consumption--is more harmful to climate than coal because methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. And the Presidents Climate Action...
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President Barack Obama, climate change: A new climate control plan will be released Tuesday
2013-06-23 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is preparing to unveil his long-awaited national plan to combat climate change in a major speech, he announced on Saturday. "There's no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change," Obama said in an online video released by the White House. "But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can." People consulting with White House officials on Obama's plan, to be unveiled Tuesday at Georgetown University, say they expect...
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