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As Climate Change Imperils Winter, the Ski Industry Frets

2015-12-24 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: The typical scene at New England ski resorts over Christmas vacation--madhouses filled with students as young as 2 or 3 packing onto bunny hills while parents head to higher elevations for their first runs of the season--has been replaced by a sobering reminder that climate change is already taking a bite out of winter. Most mountains in the northeast this December are covered in brown, not white. Killington Ski Resort in central Vermont has 24 of its 155 trails open. Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine...

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MSNBC's Russert Frets 'Hope and Change' Did Not...

2015-12-23 21:13:54| IT Services - Topix.net

As MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports to promote his special on Donald Trump's life, substitute MSNBC host Luke Russert wondered why the "divisions that had ravaged the country" did not go away after President Barack Obama's election because "everybody thought that we were now coming into a post-racial society, that 'hope and change' was going to carry the day." A bit later, he brought up segregationist Alabama Democratic governor and former presidential candidate George Wallace as he wondered whether Trump was more like Wallace or Ross Perot.

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Canadas oil industry frets as pressure mounts to cut fossil-fuel tax incentives

2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: Canadas oil industry is facing a twin threat as environmentalists urge the Liberal government to make good on promises to slash fossil-fuel subsidies and impose a tougher regulatory regime on existing applications to build pipelines to the West and East coasts. A study released Thursday pegged federal subsidies for the industry at nearly $1.7-billion, including items such as accelerated capital-cost writeoffs recently extended to the proposed liquefied natural gas plants, and the Canadian exploration...

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Green brigade frets as India set to top world in diesel car sales

2015-06-29 13:02:47| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

The cur rent list topper, Germany is among European countries, along with France and UK, that are contemplating stringent policy measures to curb sale of diesel cars. The share of diesel cars in India's domestic sales stood at 52% in 2014.

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"China Flexes Muscle, Obama Frets Over Its Weakness"

2014-07-01 03:51:31| Footwear - Topix.net

While China often voices suspicion that the U.S. is trying to undermine it , president Barack Obama told NPR in May that "we do not have an interest in stopping China from becoming successful.

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