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A 2015 treaty? Don't bother, Congress says
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As activists gathering this week for U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, fuel hopes for a 2015 legally binding treaty, U.S. lawmakers already are throwing cold water on the prospects. In interviews this week with members of Congress on the right and left, even the most ardent supporters of international efforts to curb global greenhouse gas emissions said chances of Senate approval for a treaty have not improved much since the Kyoto Protocol crashed and burned in Washington, D.C., in 1997. ...
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Why Congress Should Enact Energy-Efficiency Legislation
2013-11-11 16:21:00| National Real Estate Investor
Democrats and Republicans remain miles apart, but one policy area of growing bipartisan interest concerns energy-efficiency legislation, writes Duane Desiderio, senior vice president and counsel of The Real Estate Roundtable and a member of NREI's Sustainability Board of Advisors. A bill that the Senate started to debate in September could advance in the legislative process in the coming months. This measure would achieve a triple win by boosting jobs growth, moving the United States closer to energy independence and lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that cause climate change. read more
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OPINION: One more case against Congress wasting time
2013-11-08 08:51:18| Waste Management - Topix.net
First, in late September, the director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality told Wisconsin Public Radio that a 53-inch, 82-pound bighead carp had been found in an Illinois lake, less than a quarter-mile from the Calumet River that has direct access to Lake Michigan.
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Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters
2013-11-07 21:13:00| InfoWorld: Top News
The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of "deceptive" patent infringement demand letters sent from patent licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate committee.
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Vote on GMO food labels may have consequences in Congress
2013-11-04 05:16:20| Chemicals - Topix.net
If Washington state voters ratify Initiative 522 Tuesday, the biggest changes may go beyond the state's grocery shelves, where food products that contain genetically engineered ingredients would be labeled as such.
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