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Conn. Lawmakers Push Facebook to Shut Down Offensive Sandy Hook Pages
2013-02-26 22:36:59| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Three lawmakers are urging Facebook to remove pages that have been used to harass or exploit families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
EU lawmakers back suspension of airline carbon payments
2013-02-26 07:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: European Union lawmakers on Tuesday backed a Commission plan to suspend for a year a law that would make all airlines using EU airports pay for their carbon emissions, and urged U.S. President Barack Obama to accelerate a global deal. International fury at the EU law led Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard last year to propose a temporary exemption for intercontinental flights. The European Parliament's Environment Committee on Tuesday voted in favour of her proposal, dubbed "Stop the Clock"....
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EU lawmakers will not vote Tuesday on drafting CO2 law
2013-02-25 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: European politicians will not vote on Tuesday, as had been expected, on whether to begin drafting a law to prop up the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), delaying any possible deal on supporting the carbon market, an official agenda showed. A European Parliament committee last week voted in favor of an emergency plan, known as backloading, to save the world's biggest market for carbon emission permits from collapse. But politicians put off a decision for a week on drafting the necessary legislation...
Lawmakers urged to pass legislation for publicly financed elections
2013-02-24 18:35:17| Biotech - Topix.net
Advocates for campaign finance reform say new research shows multinational corporations whose offshore tax havens cost New York government $2.4 billion yearly donated $670,000 to the state's legislative candidates in the last election cycle.
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Ann Arbor lawmakers call for action on climate change
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AnnArbor.com: Three state lawmakers from Ann Arbor went on record this week raising concerns about global warming and together issued a call for action on climate change. Their comments came as dozens of climate change experts gathered for the National Climate Assessment town hall at the University of Michigan. "The science is clear: global warming is a growing problem, and it's not going away," said state Rep. Adam Zemke, D-Ann Arbor. "Local, state and national leaders must act now to take the necessary...
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