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Governors Ask Obama to Weigh Climate Impact of Coal Ports
2013-03-26 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas administration should weigh the climate-change impact of burning coal in Asia when considering whether to approve Pacific coal- export terminals, two Western governors said. In a letter to the White House Council of Environmental Quality, the Democratic governors, John Kitzhaber of Oregon and and Jay Inslee of Washington, said the administration must expand its review of the projects and consider the carbon dioxide that would be released when the coal is burned for power....
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Obama meets on energy, climate change, immigration
2013-03-08 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: While talking to congressional Republicans about budget issues, President Obama is trying to recruit allies for other agenda items, including energy, climate change and immigration. Obama met Thursday night with "business and thought leaders" on clean energy and climate change and met Friday morning with "faith leaders" about immigration, the White House announced today. The energy discussion included new sources of natural gas, increased efficiency of energy use and development of renewables...
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EU climate chief: Obama would send strong signal by nixing Keystone
2013-02-28 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: The European Unions climate minister said Thursday that White House rejection of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would be an extremely strong signal of the Obama administrations second-term intent to confront global warming. If you had a U.S. administration that would avoid doing something that they could do, with the argument that in the time we are living in, with the climate change we are faced with, we should not do everything we can do, then I think it would be a very, very...
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Obama Administration Moves Forward on Climate Change Without Congress
2013-02-22 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U.S. News and World Report: President Barack Obama is tired of waiting for Congress to move on legislation to reduce carbon emissions, and his administration is poised to move forward on actions to do just thatincluding a move that will effectively eliminate the possibility of any new coal plant opening in the United States, experts say. "We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence," Obama said...
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Keystone XL protesters pressure Obama on climate change promise
2013-02-17 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of protesters descended on Washington DC on Sunday demanding Barack Obama shut down the Keystone XL pipeline project to show he is serious about taking action on climate change. Organisers said a crowd of 35,000, carrying placards in the shape of bright red stop signs, gathered at the Washington monument on a bright but bitterly cold day for the march on the White House. The event, billed as the largest climate protest in US history, was intended as a show of force before Obama renders...
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