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Obama climate agenda faces Supreme Court reckoning
2013-05-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups, along with states such as Texas and Virginia, have filed nine petitions in recent weeks asking the justices to review four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. If the court were...
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Australia faces a revenue black hole
2013-05-14 00:30:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Australia's budget is unlikely to see many vote-winning giveaways
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U.N. faces uphill battle to reduce global airline emissions
2013-05-13 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Little progress has been made in a United Nations' effort to craft an agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel, raising doubts that its civil aviation body can deliver a final resolution by a September target date, several government officials said on Monday. Representatives to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said a high-level group of representatives from 17 countries tapped to expedite a global agreement continues to be bogged down by a few...
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Marshall Islands faces acute water shortage
2013-05-10 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: About 6,000 people who live on the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific are facing an acute shortage of fresh water as a severe drought worsens. A state of disaster was declared in the north. Australia announced it would provide AU$100,000 (65,335) for emergency desalination units. The US has also donated several reverse-osmosis machines, which convert salt water into fresh water. There is no end in sight to the drought, with fine weather forecast for at least the next 10 days. The drought...
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Colorado Ag Faces Devastating Energy Cost Hike
2013-05-09 21:42:00| Beef
It was one of those high-minded bills intended to encourage renewable energy. Instead it essentially calls for more than doubling over the next 20 years the percentage of energy that Colorado rural cooperatives would have to acquire from renewable sources. What are our legislators thinking? My View From The Country read more
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