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Post-election Obama backers hitting donors

2013-02-23 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

United Press International: A leading government watchdog says the transition of U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election team into an advocacy group to promote his agenda "just smells." Obama for America, which has become Organizing for Action, is trying to raise $50 million from a small group of elite donors, The New York Times reported Saturday. Those involved in the effort say at least half of OFA's budget will come from donors who give at least $500,000. Donors' names will be voluntarily disclosed every few months,...

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Ohio, Marshall Wells Hitting Oil

2013-02-22 22:55:10| Energy - Topix.net

It may be a little soon to declare northern West Virginia black gold country, but Chesapeake Energy drew an average of 290 barrels of oil per day from a single Ohio County well last year.

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Ohio, Marshall Wells Hitting Oil

2013-02-22 20:08:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

It may be a little soon to declare northern West Virginia black gold country, but Chesapeake Energy drew an average of 290 barrels of oil per day from a single Ohio County well last year.

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Climate change costs are hitting home

2013-02-22 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hunterdon County Democrat: PSE&G wants to spend a staggering $4 billion over the next decade to harden its electric and gas systems against the impact of severe storms like Sandy and Irene, a sum that works out to about $500 per person in New Jersey. "This is a cost of climate change, pure and simple," says Jeanne Fox, a commissioner on the Board of Public Utilities, which oversees the utilities. It`s a pity we cannot send the entire bill to the flat-earthers who are willfully deaf to the chorus of warnings from the...

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