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| Obama's climate plan takes aim at coal plants Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 06:26 PM PDT  America is slowly moving toward cleaner sources of energy and using less of it overall. President Barack Obama's plan to fight climate change will accelerate those trends. The plan aims to reduce power-plant ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama opens 2nd-term drive against climate change Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 05:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Appealing for courageous action "before it's too late," President Barack Obama launched a major second-term drive Tuesday to combat climate change and secure a safer planet, bypassing Congress as he sought to set a cornerstone of his legacy. Full Story | Top |
| Obama takes on power plants as part of new climate plan Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 05:35 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tried to revive his stalled climate change agenda on Tuesday, promising new rules to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and other domestic actions including support for renewable energy. Obama also signaled he would block construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada if it contributed to climate change. That does not mean the project is doomed, however. ... Full Story | Top |
| Climate change: Obama announces new curbs on existing power plants Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 04:45 PM PDT Seeking to propel the US faster into the fray on curbing climate change, President Obama laid out an aggressive plan Tuesday to sharply curb smokestack emissions of existing coal-fired power plants and to double wind, solar, and other renewable energy production from today's levels. Full Story | Top |
| Highlights of Obama's climate plan Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 03:18 PM PDT President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to combat climate change and prepare the U.S. and other nations for its effects. Some highlights of the president's plan: REDUCE POLLUTION — Issue ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama Won't Approve Keystone Pipeline Unless It Passes New Test Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 03:00 PM PDT President Obama told hundreds of climate change advocates on Tuesday that he will not approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline if it "significantly exacerbated the problem of carbon pollution," a move that's expected to excite environmental activists. Full Story | Top |
| Obama Climate Speech Reflects Washington’s Gap Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 02:59 PM PDT A mere five miles separated President Obama from congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill when he gave his speech on climate change Tuesday at Georgetown University. But they might have well been on separate planets. Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s Climate Plan: Buh-Bye, Big Coal Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 02:35 PM PDT In a major speech on climate change, President Obama laid out a specific second-term plan to limit carbon pollution that contributes to global warming, telling students in the crowd at Georgetown University that he refuses to "condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing." Full Story | Top |
| Obama Reveals Bold New Climate Change Plan Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 01:44 PM PDT  President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious new plan today (June 25) to curtail U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as part of a far-reaching climate change strategy that he said, "should send a strong signal to the world that America intends to take bold action to reduce carbon pollution." Full Story | Top |
| 5 key details from Obama's big climate change speech Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 01:00 PM PDT On Tuesday, President Obama, sweating slightly in the Washington D.C. sun in front of a receptive crowd at Georgetown University, laid out his strategy to fight climate change. Full Story | Top |
| Obama aims to tackle pollution, climate change Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 12:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming. Full Story | Top |
| Americans don't really think global warming is a big deal Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 12:30 PM PDT President Obama calls climate change "the global threat of our time." Americans don't quite agree with that assessment.In a Pew poll released Monday, only 40 percent of Americans said global climate change was a "major threat." That placed it behind financial instability, Islamic extremism, and China's influence — and just above "political instability in Pakistan" (37 percent) — on a list of other potential threats Pew tested.While Americans didn't think too much of global warming, the world as a whole did. Among the 39 countries Pew surveyed combined, climate change was viewed... Full Story | Top |
| How to Prepare Your Home for a Summer Storm Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 12:21 PM PDT If it seems like thunderstorms occur more frequently and intensely than they used to, that may be due to the understandable hype concerning SuperStorm Sandy and other recent destructive storms, like the tornadoes in Moore, Okla. "Despite the heightened level of thunderstorm activity since mid-May in the United States, it has actually been a rather quiet year in terms of overall events," says Steve Bowen, a senior scientist and meteorologist for Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe modeling arm of reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield. Full Story | Top |
| Obama takes aim at changing climate Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 11:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says carbon limits needed for power plants Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 11:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says carbon pollution limits need to be set on U.S. power plants in order to curb global warming. Full Story | Top |
| Obama directs EPA to end dumping of carbon from power plants Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 11:13 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is directing federal regulators to develop a plan to end the "limitless dumping of carbon pollution" from U.S. power plants. In a closely watched climate change speech, Obama said as part of a new national climate action plan, the Environmental Protection Agency will come up with new standards governing power plant carbon standards. Speaking at Georgetown University, Obama said he wants to see a market-based solution to climate, but that the problem demands attention now. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama Allies Urge Environmental Activists to Avoid Economic Arguments Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 10:53 AM PDT A talking points memo sent Monday night ahead of President Obama's speech Tuesday on climate change tells Obama supporters to downplay economic arguments and words like "regulations." Full Story | Top |
| Watch Obama's Climate Change Speech — Turns Out He's Talking Keystone Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 10:47 AM PDT  President Obama's much anticipated speech on climate change is underway at Georgetown University. Watch it below, and read our preview/overview if you haven't. Even before it begins, though, a bit of new news: among his proposals, the president will reportedly set a critical emissions measure for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Full Story | Top |
| Climate change: Why does President Obama's plan skirt Congress? Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 10:34 AM PDT When President Obama lays out his agenda to fight climate change at Georgetown University on Tuesday, there won't be a grand push for sweeping climate legislation. Full Story | Top |
| 94 in Alaska? Weather extremes tied to jet stream Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 09:45 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lately, the jet stream isn't playing by the rules. Scientists say that big river of air high above Earth that dictates much of the weather for the Northern Hemisphere has been unusually erratic the past few years. Full Story | Top |
| Power plant limits at center of Obama climate plan Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 09:24 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking climate change efforts into his own hands, President Barack Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. Full Story | Top |
| Science Will Protect Us from Climate Change, Obama Says Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 09:18 AM PDT  Science Will Protect Us from Climate Change, Obama Says Full Story | Top |
| Dry weather helps Mo. farmers catch up on planting Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 08:25 AM PDT A week with plenty of dry weather helped Missouri farmers catch up on their planting, most of which is at least three weeks behind last year's pace but right at the five-year average. A report Monday from ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama's Climate Change Speech in Just Three Words: Less Coal, Finally Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 06:20 AM PDT  The process of climate change is complex and involves a vast array of contributors. But slowing climate change largely relies on one thing, cutting carbon dioxide emissions, and cutting carbon dioxide emissions heavily relies on reducing the use of coal. For all of the president's intricate proposals during his speech on the topic of climate change today at Georgetown University, nothing is as important as his plan to reduce America's use of coal. Full Story | Top |
| Obama and Congress must fight climate change like they do terrorism Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 06:19 AM PDT For a man with his hands tied, President Obama is offering a decent enough plan to fight climate change. In a speech today, he's expected to announce federal regulation of greenhouse gases at existing coal-fired power plants, increased energy standards for buildings and appliances, and greater development of renewable energy on federal lands. These are moves that he can try without approval from Congress. And while they are halfway measures, they are better than no measures.But imagine if his hands were not tied. ... Full Story | Top |
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