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Governments Await Obama’s Move on Carbon to Gauge U.S. Climate Efforts

"President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s fleet of 600 coal-fired power plants, in a speech that government analysts in Beijing, Brussels and beyond will scrutinize to determine how serious the president is about fighting global warming."

Source: NY Times, 05/27/2014

"China Opens First Environmental Court"

"The court established in the southern province of Fujian has appointed 12 specialist consultants who will assist litigators on technical issues, Xinhua news agency reported."

Source: Reuters, 05/26/2014

"Climate Change To Boost Health Problems"

"Climate change: Now it's personal. There will be more itching, sneezing, swelling and gasping for breath as Pennsylvania's climate shifts and residents are exposed to more poison ivy, stinging insects, pollen allergies and lyme-disease-bearing ticks, and experience increased asthma, respiratory disease and heat-related deaths."

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 05/26/2014

"Shore Communities Altered Forever By Sandy"

"Glenn Wilson needed a favor on Saturday, and he knew he didn’t have to ask. He wanted to take his son surf fishing, so he drove from his house by the bay in Point Pleasant and parked in his mother-in-law’s driveway in Ocean Beach, two blocks from the sea."

Source: Bergen Record, 05/26/2014

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