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First Reading: Guns of August for Davis, Abbott
2014-08-08 17:48:46| Appliances - Topix.net
Labor Day is weeks away, but the Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott campaigns are launching their first major television ads today.
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'Tony Abbott climate change is REAL I'm standing on it'
2014-08-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Leading British actress Emma Thompson has slammed Tony Abbott for failing to act on climate change while travelling through the Arctic as part of a Greenpeace campaign. The Golden Globe and Oscar award winner appeared in a photograph on a Greenpeace ship near the Smeerenburg glacier, holding a sign which read: 'Tony Abbott climate change is REAL I'm standing on it!' A second photograph featuring the 55-year-old, saw her holding a second sign with the words: 'Where I stand should be ice'. British...
Abbott, Davis mine the rich and famous for political dollars
2014-08-03 06:36:29| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Texas gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis has $13.1 million in the bank, helped largely by party loyalists, women's groups and entertainment figures.
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Climate wars far from over for Abbott
2014-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: The scrapping of the carbon tax closes a bitter chapter in Australian politics and offers lessons for the Abbott government in the perils of negotiating climate policy. John Howard first pledged an emissions trading scheme (ETS) ahead of the 2007 election, but it was a triumphant Kevin Rudd who took the first shot at cobbling together parliamentary support for his own cap-and-trade policy. He achieved bipartisan backing for his scheme two years later, only to see it come crashing down when Malcolm...
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Australia Scraps Carbon Price as Abbott Meets Election Pledge
2014-07-17 05:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australias Senate voted to scrap the nations price on carbon, fulfilling a key election pledge by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and leaving the nation without an approved mechanism to tackle emissions. The repeal bill was passed 39 votes to 32 in the 76-member upper house today, dismantling a law introduced by the previous Labor government that initially charged polluters A$23 ($21.50) per ton of greenhouse gases emitted. Repealing the carbon price may put Australia, which is hosting the Group...
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