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Apple, Google call on Obama to reject cryptographic backdoors
2015-05-19 23:18:13| Extremetech
Tech companies and civil liberties organizations joined forces today to ask President Obama to reject any effort to mandate backdoors into security products. Such efforts are doomed to failure -- and could harm both the US economy and its reputation abroad.
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Obama Drills a Hole in His Climate Policy
2015-05-19 18:39:39| Energy - Topix.net
Here are two facts that cannot be reconciled: The planet has experienced the warmest January-through-March on record, and the Obama administration has authorized massive new oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean. "Climate change can no longer be denied ... and action can no longer be delayed," President Obama said in an Earth Day address in the Everglades.
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Pres. Obama Defends Arctic Drilling Decision
2015-05-15 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama on Thursday defended his administrations decision to allow offshore oil and natural gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, a move that has been the subject of criticism from environmentalists. Obama told reporters that although he wants the country to move completely away from fossil fuels at some point, domestic oil and natural gas production is still necessary in the short term. I believe that we are going to have to transition off of fossil fuels as a planet in order to prevent...
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US oil production 'important' amid clean energy transition: Obama
2015-05-15 02:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama called US oil production an "important" source of energy as America transitions towards cleaner resources, defending his move to allow petroleum giant Shell to drill in the Alaskan Arctic. Obama's administration gave the petroleum giant a green light three days ago to explore the Chukchi Sea near Alaska -- as long as the Anglo-Dutch firm has the correct permits from the agencies that regulate the environment and marine mammal health. Environmental groups oppose the drilling...
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UN Clmate Official Pans Idea of Arctic Drilling in Subtle Slap at Obama Admin
2015-05-14 14:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The United Nations top climate official took a subtle poke at the Obama administration on Wednesday over its decision to conditionally allow oil exploration off Alaskas coast, suggesting that the Arctics oil and gas should stay underground. Despite the tentative green light given to Shell Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, both the environment and Shells stockholders would be best served if such projects are shelved, said Christiana Figueres, the executive director of the U.N. Framework Convention...
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