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Foes of Obama climate policy prepare battle over cost of carbon

2013-08-21 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Three months ago, the Obama administration made a little-noticed but potentially pivotal move in the stepped-up fight against climate change: it boosted the U.S. government's official estimate of the future economic damage caused by carbon pollution. After its first review, a panel of technical experts from 11 government agencies raised the so-called "social cost of carbon," known as SCC. The measure is used by many arms of the U.S. government to determine the financial benefits of new regulations...

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Task force: Coasts should prepare for rising seas

2013-08-19 15:40:35| Energy - Topix.net

In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, a vehicle is submerged in floodwater left in the wake of Superstorm Sandy near a Consolidated Edison power plant in New York.

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Physio-Control And American Red Cross Partner To Help Prepare The Public For Sudden Cardiac Arrest Response

2013-08-14 02:53:33| publicworks Home Page

Physio-Control, a leading provider of emergency medical response technologies worldwide, and the American Red Cross, the nation’s leading provider of hands-on emergency response and preparedness training, recently announced that the two organizations have joined forces to help the public better prepare for and respond to sudden cardiac arrest, one of the leading causes of death in the United States

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