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Canada Inuit, conservationists oppose polar bear trade crackdown
2013-03-05 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Proposals to ban trade in polar bear furs will do little to ensure the animals' long-term future, Canada's Arctic Inuit and two major conservationist groups both say. The United States wants the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) to list the bears as endangered at its meeting in Bangkok this week, a move that would prohibit international trade in their body parts and fur. But the Inuit say that would slash one of the few sources of income...
Vitter: Mr. President, will you oppose carbon tax bill?
2013-02-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: In a letter to the president, Vitter asks Obama to express his opposition to recently introduced Senate legislation by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that would impose a carbon tax and use some of the proceeds to fund energy alternatives and offer rebates to consumers to cover any resulting hikes in oil, gas and coal prices. Boxer chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, while Vitter is the panel's top Republican. "This request is pretty simple: are they going...
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Ag Groups Oppose Cuts to Food Aid Programs
2013-02-25 16:21:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC The agricultural community is concerned with indications that the administrations FY 2014 budget will cut the Food for Peace (PL-480) and Food for Progress programs. In a letter to President Barack Obama, over 70 nonprofit, farm, commodity, labor and other organizations objected to the indicated change. read more
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NAACP head: Even some in NYPD oppose street stops
2013-02-17 23:54:51| Telecom - Topix.net
Janet Murguia , National Council of la Raza President and CEO, and Wade Henderson , Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President, listen as Ben Jealous, NAACP President, speaks to reporters outside the West Wing after a meeting with other labor leaders at the White House February 5, 2013 in Washington,DC. Obama met with labor leaders ... (more)
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Obama Allies Browner, Podesta Now Oppose Arctic Drilling
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: Officials with the Center for American Progress (CAP), an influential liberal think tank with deep White House ties, have come out against Arctic oil drilling as the Obama administration faces crucial decisions about the region. Carol Browner, a senior CAP fellow and President Obamas former energy czar, and CAP founder John Podesta explained their opposition to drilling off the northern coast of Alaska in a joint Bloomberg op-ed. The op-ed by Podesta, who co-chaired Obamas transition team...
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