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Give grassroot groups a real say on what comes next in development
2013-02-22 05:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For 13 years international development policy has rested on a set of goals written in "relative casualness". So casual was the manner of the small team working out of a basement office of the UN in New York that they initially "forgot" to include an environment goal what became millennium development goal (MDG) seven on environmental sustainability. Those targeted by the MDGs, and from 2015 by their successor when the MDGs expire, do not forget the importance of the environment. More than 100...
EPA Releases Producer Information to Activist Groups
2013-02-22 01:00:00| Beef
Cattlemen outraged as EPA provides private information of CAFOs to activist groups NCBA news release WASHINGTON — Early this week the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) was notified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the agency had been collecting information from states on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). read more
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Groups Urge Investigation Of EPA Actions In Texas Water Contamination Case
2013-02-21 06:36:46| oilandgasonline News Articles
More than 80 organizations from 12 states and a New York State Senator recently called on the inspector general of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate a decision to drop legal action against a drilling company despite evidence that it had polluted residents’ well water near Fort Worth, Texas.
Green groups urge ambitious new climate goals for Europe
2013-02-20 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Green campaigners pressed the case for an ambitious new decade of energy and environment policy on Wednesday as the European Commission kicked off debate on 2030 goals, seeking to balance economic reality with climate concerns. Environment groups say a possible new target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels - implied from EU documents - fails to address their climate change fears. They want another triple set of targets along the lines of the 2020 goals - to cut...
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ASA Joins Fellow Farm Groups in Opposing Lopsided Farm Program Cuts
2013-02-20 17:54:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: American Soybean Association In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this morning, the American Soybean Association (ASA) joined 11 other national farm groups in opposing disproportionate cuts to farm programs as part of the recently introduced American Family Economic Protection Act advanced by Senate Democrats to avert cuts under the sequestration set to take effect March 1. read more
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