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When it comes to climate, Modi is more worried about renewables than Obama's emission cuts
2015-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With U.S. President Barack Obamas visit to India just days away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is focused more on boosting the use of renewables in his country than committing to cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. Obama announced a pact with China two months ago for capping emissions, raising the pressure on India, the third-biggest greenhouse polluter behind those two countries, to follow suit. Instead, Modi is likely to cite a 90 percent success rate in a program aimed at forcing companies to...
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Republicans edit climate-denial mockery out of Obamas State of the Union
2015-01-21 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Obama memorably mocked the Republicans` "I`m not a scientist" climate dodge in his State of the Union address last night. Behold: Ive heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying theyre not scientists; that we dont have enough information to act. Well, Im not a scientist, either. But you know what -- I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. It seems Republicans didn`t like that one bit. In their "factcheck" (I use the term loosely)...
6 Tech Issues Obama's State of the Union Pledged to Tackle
2015-01-21 07:02:53| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Technology was not the focal point of Obama's State of the Union, but the tech community was not completely left out.
Tavenner takes Obama's fall
2015-01-18 02:37:36| Beverages - Topix.net
Marilyn Tavenner, the U.S. official who led the rough roll-out of Obamacare and testified before Congress last fall about enrollment figures, announced Friday that she will leave her post as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Her departure is effective at the end of the month, says a Bloomberg report .
Cities cheer Obama's push for municipal broadband
2015-01-16 16:55:10| Telecom - Topix.net
Dozens of U.S. cities are cheering President Obama's proposal this week for the Federal Communications Commission to allow municipalities to provide their own Internet broadband services even in states that have banned such services. "Obama's doing just what we have been advocating," said Rick Usher, assistant city manager for Kansas City, Mo., in an interview.
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