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Australian officials visit Greenpeace activist Colin Russell in Russian prison
2013-10-01 06:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Consular officers have met with an Australian Greenpeace activist detained in Russia, passing on messages from his family and checking on his welfare. Colin Russell is among 30 people from various countries who have been detained for two months while Russian authorities investigate the protest on 19 September by the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise. Activists boarded an oil platform in protest at Russian oil drilling in the Arctic Circle, prompting Russian authorities to seize the vessel and detain...
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Government shutdown to hurt morale, former EPA officials warn
2013-09-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The looming federal shutdown is dredging up bad memories for U.S. EPA veterans who were on staff the last time the government shuttered. With less than 24 hours remaining until agencies could be forced to close, former Clinton administration officials are feeling déj vu after experiencing the shutdowns in 1995 and 1996 -- and they warn it could be even worse this time around. "I think it was unsettling, deeply unsettling," said Jon Cannon, who served as EPA general counsel during the last...
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Immigration officials unfairly targeting Mexicans - study
2013-09-29 15:33:17| Airlines - Topix.net
More people of Mexican descent than ever before are settling in the Hawaiian Islands, and while "an overwhelming majority" of them are legal U.S. citizens, the community is still being unfairly targeted by immigration enforcement authorities, according to a new study published last week.
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Despite new report, West Virginia officials still oppose Obama climate plan
2013-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette: Climate scientists are more certain than ever that human activity is causing global warming, but the latest comprehensive report did nothing to weaken opposition from most West Virginia political leaders to the Obama administration's plan to cut greenhouse emissions from coal-fired power plants. Several top elected officials, asked to react to the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, repeated their previous harsh criticism of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to...
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Technology, Economic Development Are Key For Transportation Funding And Support, Say Officials
2013-09-25 21:16:53| ENR.com: Headline News
DOT Secretary Foxx touts warm-mix asphalt, satellite-based air traffic control at Women's Transportation Seminar in Washington, D.C.
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