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Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
2014-01-20 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this countrys emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change. As Admiral Robert J. Papp of the US Coast Guard wrote in 2012 in the magazine of the US Naval Institute:...
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Residents of Shishmaref seek help from Washington for coastal erosion
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tony Weyiouanna remembers a time when people played beach baseball in his village on Alaska's storm-battered western coast. Now, there's barely enough room for hopscotch on Shishmaref's eroding waterfront. Erosion in the village and other coastal Alaska communities is an escalating problem blamed on climate change that has affected storm patterns in the region. The impact on their environment was the message carried by Weyiouanna and four other residents from the Inupiat Eskimo community who traveled...
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French ad giant buys Washington PR firm [K-street controlled by overseas ad agencies]
2014-01-12 05:23:49| Food - Topix.net
The French company Publicis Groupe has acquired Qorvis Communications, one of Washington's more active public relations firms in politics and lobbying.
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Obamacare: Washington severs ties with Montreal-based IT firm
2014-01-10 21:02:09| IT Services - Topix.net
Shares of IT services provider CGI Group fell 2.6 per cent Friday afternoon after published reports said the Obama administration will end the Montreal-based firm's contract for the problem-plagued health-care website.
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Charter school in Washington, D.C., told to close at the end of the school year
2014-01-10 19:39:00| American School & University
D.C. Public Charter School Board says the Arts and Technology Academy has failed to meet achievement goals in math and reading. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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