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Australia toughens environmental hurdles on coal and coal seam gas mining
2013-03-12 13:37:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia will impose tougher environmental hurdles on coal and coal seam gas mining, responding to mounting public concern about protection of fragile water resources from the impact of extraction, Environment Minister Tony Burke said on Tuesday. The government would amend national environment laws to force coal seam gas and large coal mining developments to now receive national government approval and assessment of their impact on water, Burke said. Australia has a booming coal seam gas industry...
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Obama On Climate Change Faces High Expectations, And High Hurdles, In Second Term
2013-01-17 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future generations a nation not only free of debt and unencumbered by inequality, but also one "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." The laws of both physics and politics suggest he'll have his work cut out for him, and his second-term success will surely be measured on far more concrete terms. The president, after all, faces several...
FCC Opens Door To Dish's LTE-A Network, But Tech Hurdles Loom
2013-01-04 16:23:44| rfglobalnet News Articles
The FCC delivered an early holiday gift to Dish Network when it finally granted the company’s year-old request to use its advanced wireless services (AWS-4) spectrum for terrestrial broadband mobile applications. The approval also could be a big to the wireless infrastructure industry and to the public, finally introducing much-needed competition into a wireless market dominated by a few major operators. However, Dish still has some major technical challenges to overcome before that can happen.