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Size of Keystone XL pipeline fight overshadows impact
2015-11-07 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline had all the elements of a classic Washington scrap: protests, political ads and lobbyists on retainer. What was sometimes missing in the seven-year struggle, energy analysts say, was an accurate accounting of the projects impact on the environment or the economy, the twin issues that drove the debate. Environmentalists said Keystone XL, which TransCanada Corp. first applied to build in 2008, raised the risks of climate change. But a U.S. environmental review...
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This is your Fight
2015-11-06 20:52:21| Commercial Real Estate Loans & Investment Sales
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The fight against Keystone XL changed climate movement. Heres how
2015-11-06 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.S. climate movement has gained a lot of clout in the four years since it made Keystone XL into a major target. In part, thats because the organizing against Keystone helped the movement develop a number of assets it previously lacked. Here are the six big ones: * Focus In the few years leading up to and following President Obamas election in 2008, the environmental movements climate focus was on passing a big bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Congressional Democrats wanted to make...
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Jokowi pushes universities innovate to fight haze as respiratory diseases rise
2015-11-06 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesias ministry of higher education is attempting to create a research consortium on disaster management. Data from Indonesias disaster management agency showed the number of people diagnosed with acute respiratory infection increased to 556,945 by November 6. After a limited cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss peat management, Jokowi said he wanted the research department of Yogyakartas University of Gadjah Mada to play a central role in proposing Indonesias new peat strategy....
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One Man's Fight to Reclaim a Racist South Carolina Monument
2015-11-04 18:16:43| Real Estate - Topix.net
In the center of North Augusta, in front of a fountain on the lawn of the town's oldest house, there's an obelisk memorial to a white supremacist who died massacring a black town. The monument is in no way ambiguous about its purpose.
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