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President Said to Be Planning to Use Executive Authority on Carbon Rule

President Said to Be Planning to Use Executive Authority on Carbon Rule President Said to Be Planning to Use Executive Authority on Carbon Rule By CORAL DAVENPORT President Obama’s proposed regulation to cut pollution from coal-fired power plants by up to 20 percent would be the strongest action taken by an American president to tackle …

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About British Columbia’s Carbon Tax _in Five Charts

Sightline.org, published an excellent overview of the effect of BC’s Carbon Tax Shift on March 11, 2014. See the full article via the link below. http://daily.sightline.org/2014/03/11/all-you-need-to-know-about-bcs-carbon-tax-shift-in-five-charts/ The five main points in the article, supported by the charts are: 1) Pricing carbon has reduced carbon pollution. 2) The carbon tax shift has not hurt the economy. …

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Inslee: Greenest Governor in the US?

This past Thursday afternoon (April 3, 2014), Governor Inslee participated in a panel at the University of Washington entitled Climate Action Comes to Washington (State) with representatives of Grist, Bloomberg BNA, and the UW College of the Environment.  It was moderated by Chris Mooney of the Climate Desk and the Inquiring Minds podcast.  The Climate …

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Hundreds Protest KXL Pipeline Outside of Whitehouse

This past weekend hundreds of mainly college students who had marched from Georgetown University protested at the White House against the proposed 1,700 mile crude oil pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada across the border to refineries near the Gulf Coast.  Hundreds were arrested in an effort made to stop Obama from approving …

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