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Appalachian miners decry what call Obama's 'war on coal'

2013-09-17 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: When President Obama laid out ambitious plans in June for combating climate change, coal miners like Roger Horton heard what they considered the latest fusillade in the administration's "war on coal." Until his retirement two weeks ago, Horton, 59, worked underground for decades in southern West Virginia's Logan County, then operated a 200-ton earth-moving truck to remove debris from blasted mountaintops. A milestone in Obama's initiative will come this week, when the Environmental Protection...

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South Bay leaders decry Metro plan to close project funding gap

2013-06-27 10:10:27| Railroads - Topix.net

As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority prepares to take up a long agenda Thursday that could determine how billions of dollars are spent on projects countywide, city leaders in the South Bay are focused on a proposal they say could divert nearly $100 million from their own highway and roads projects.

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Digital rights activists decry computer crime proposal

2013-03-27 12:37:01| InfoWorld: Top News

A proposal in the U.S. Congress to strengthen the penalties in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a "giant leap in the wrong direction" for digital rights activists calling for changes in the law after the suicide of hacktivist Aaron Swartz earlier this year.

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Utah Protesters Decry Tar Sands in Chevron Refinery March

2013-03-25 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Salt Lake Tribune: They carried cardboard coffins and waved banners that screamed "Dirty Energy Kills" and "Stop the Tar Sands Insanity." Some 60 hearty souls braved brisk March breezes Saturday to march one-third mile up a private road to Chevrons Salt Lake City refinery. They protested tar sands development in eastern Utah and criticized the oil giants processing of Canadian crude from Alberta tar sands. Later Saturday afternoon, however, a spokesman for Chevron said that although the Salt Lake City facility...

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