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The Grand Oil Party: House Republicans denounce a carbon tax
2016-06-13 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Friday, the US House of Representatives voted on a Resolution condemning a carbon tax. As The Hill reported: Lawmakers passed, by a 237-163 vote, a GOP-backed resolution listing pitfalls from a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and concluding that such a policy would be detrimental to American families and businesses, and is not in the best interest of the United States. Six Democrats voted with the GOP for the resolution. No Republicans dissented. The oil industry is scared of a carbon...
San Bruno Officials Denounce Governor's Veto of CPUC Reform Legislation
2015-10-11 03:14:34| Energy - Topix.net
City officials have spent the past five years seeking to hold PG&E and CPUC officials accountable since the 2010 gas explosion. San Bruno city officials were "extremely disappointed" Friday by Governor Jerry Brown's veto of half a dozen bills intended to reform the California Public Utilities Commission in the wake of a deadly pipeline explosion, according to City Manager Connie Jackson.
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RPT-U.S. steelmakers, politicians denounce China steel price cuts
2015-08-13 00:20:36| Steel - Topix.net
Moves by Chinese steel exporters Wednesday to cut prices provoked cries of foul from the U.S. steel industry, and gave politicians skeptical of the pending Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement new ammunition. Reuters reported Wednesday that Chinese steel producers were cutting export prices, riding the fall of the yuan currency after the central bank devaluation on Tuesday.
Road rage: scientists denounce $60 trillion infrastructure expansion
2015-03-14 23:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It was 2009 when I first laid eyes on the 2,500 kilometer-long Interoceanic Highway that connects the west coast of Peru with the western Brazilian border - bisecting the entirety of the Peruvian Amazon. Far from impressive, it resembled a scraggly dirt and gravel path, blanketed on both sides by massive Amazonian trees. Traveling on the highway by car was an exercise in sheer luck. Huge clouds of dust rose high into the sky around my car and visibility was less than 10 meters (30 feet) - neither...
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Canada: Wildrose Party delegates vote to fight climate change, denounce intolerance
2013-10-27 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Proclaiming themselves loud and proud, Albertas opposition Wildrose party voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to affirm party policy denouncing intolerance against anyone, including gays. On Monday, both Calgary and Edmonton elected left-of-centre mayors. While the results were not unexpected, it did give pundits the opportunity to dust off their columns from three years ago to, once again, wonder whether the citizens of Albertas thriving metropolises are getting ready to join the exclusive club...
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