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Sea Change: Acidification fight faces political hurdles
2014-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: When U.S. Rep. Brian Baird tried a few years ago to get his colleagues to put more money toward ocean-acidification research, few even understood the issue. One congressman, Baird said, confused souring seas with acid rain, and asked, "Didn`t we deal with that 20 years ago?" The corrosion of the oceans by carbon-dioxide emissions has barely made a ripple among Washington, D.C.`s power brokers. Little money gets earmarked for research. Ocean change has inspired few stabs at curbing CO2. In...
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Contraception key in climate change fight: Gore and Gates
2014-01-24 06:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Stopping overpopulation is one way the dangers of climate change can be mitigated, according to two of the most prominent believers in global warming. Former Vice President Al Gore and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that contraception is a key in controlling the proliferation of unusual weather they say is endangering the world. "Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available...
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UN official: Role in climate fight is 'sacred'
2014-01-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The top climate official at the United Nations has described her role in pushing nations to contain the Earth's shifting climate as a "sacred" job. "We are truly defining the quality of life for our children," Christina Figueres, the U.N.'s executive secretary for climate, told USA TODAY on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We have to do everything we can because there is no plan B because there is no planet B," she said. "I fully intend...
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EPA And Industry Fail To Settle Waste Unit Risk Policy Fight
2014-01-23 09:33:18| pollutiononline News Articles
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry groups including cement producers have failed to settle a permit dispute that is testing whether the agency has the authority to require operators of hazardous waste combustion units to conduct risk assessments that can be used to strengthen emissions limits for mercury and other pollutants when renewing the facilities' existing waste and air permits. Negotiations stalled during a meeting in November 2013 between EPA lawyers and cement kiln operators at EPA's Region V offices, according to an 8 January 2014 status report the parties filed with the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB). Litigation will continue on 20 February 2014.
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Call for Agricultural Action to Fight Global Hunger
2014-01-22 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GERMANY - An international call has been made for closer links between agricultural and food policies in the fight against global hunger.
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