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Farmers Urged to Understand Motivation of Animals Rights Groups
2013-01-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Center for Consumer Freedom suggests those involved in animal agriculture need to understand the motivations of organizations like the Humane Society of the United States and help ensure the public is also informed, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Climate change inaction the fault of environmental groups, report says
2013-01-14 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Harvard academic has put the blame squarely for America's failure to act on climate change on environmental groups. She also argues that there is little prospect Barack Obama will put climate change on the top of his agenda in his second term. In a research paper, due to be presented at a Harvard forum next month, scholar Theda Skocpol in effect accuses the DC-based environmental groups of political malpractice, saying they were blind to extreme Republican opposition to their efforts. Environmental...
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New book discussion groups start in Schaumburg
2013-01-12 22:51:05| Grocery - Topix.net
When you crack open a book , are you escaping into a steamy romance? Searching for clues to figure out "whodunit?" Is your mind ready to wrap around a heinous true crime story, a "foodie" plot or some other fun, lighthearted fiction? Perhaps you prefer books that became movies.
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Groups collect cases of comments on NY gas regs
2013-01-11 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: As Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration nears completion of regulations that could lift a 4 1/2-year-old ban on shale gas drilling in New York, opposition groups have ramped up efforts to persuade the governor to say no to fracking. Environmental, health and community groups opposed to shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," say they collected more than 200,000 comments during an intense 30-day effort featuring online coaching and comment-writing workshops at churches, community...
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Groups in Court to Stop Groundwater Contamination from Toxic Coal Ash Waste
2013-01-08 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Conservation groups today went to court in an effort to protect North Carolina communities and groundwater from toxic coal ash contamination at 14 coal-fired power plants across North Carolina. Conservation groups today went to court in an effort to protect North Carolina communities and groundwater from toxic coal ash contamination at 14 coal-fired power plants across the state. The lawsuit seeks to vindicate a North Carolina law--currently unenforced by the state--that requires industrial polluters...
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