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Obama pitches big anti-smog effort in environmental push
2013-03-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama pitched the first major environmental effort of his second term on Friday in a bid to slash smog-forming emissions from gasoline that have been linked to lung and heart ailments, setting up a fight with Republicans and the oil industry. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the so-called Tier 3 rules that would require refiners to cut the sulfur content of gasoline to 10 parts per million (ppm) by 2017 from the current standard of 30 ppm. Reducing sulfur...
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KATU: Nick Fish discusses the city's effort to fight homelessness
2013-03-29 00:20:06| PortlandOnline
Patrick Preston on KATU
Audit Faults Stimulus-Backed $1.5 Billion U.S. Clean-Coal Effort
2013-03-26 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Poor management has hampered a U.S. program to develop technology to capture carbon-dioxide emissions, the Energy Department inspector general said in a report that raises new questions about a clean-energy initiative backed by the 2009 economic stimulus. In total, the Energy Department received $1.5 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to invest in technology that responds to climate-change risks. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that most scientists think is making the planet...
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Billionaire plans effort to calculate cost of inaction on climate
2013-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: A billionaire environmental activist from California will launch an effort to quantify what inaction on climate could cost the country, a study that could land just before the 2014 election. Tom Steyer, a Democrat who's twice succeeded with efforts on California ballot measures, said the move is needed to shift the dialogue on climate and "try and systematically and rigorously quantify what it will mean to move into a new energy economy, and what it will cost not to do it." "We should address...
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Intel TV effort leads to hiring surge in media unit
2013-03-19 20:44:01| Agriculture - Topix.net
Intel's media group has been on a hiring spree as it prepares to launch an Internet television service later this year, underscoring the Santa Clara chipmaker's seriousness about the new business.
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