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Obama Climate Change Strategy: Politically Realistic or Strategy for Disaster?
2013-07-28 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Real News Network: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. On June 25, President Obama made a speech announcing his new climate change policies. Was his strategy a guarantee of climate change disaster, or a reasonable, modest, measured approach, and in fact the only one that's actually politically possible? Well, we're going to debate that today. But first let's see what President Obama said. Here's a little clip. ~~~ BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: I refuse to condemn...
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Australia - Government approves disaster assistance for Bundaberg port
2013-07-26 09:06:53| Sugar Industry News
The sugarcane industry is breathing a collective sigh of relief as the federal government on July 24 announced much-needed disaster assistance to restore the Port of Bundaberg to pre-flood conditions, local press reports said.
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Why The Latest Gulf Leak Is No BP Disaster
2013-07-24 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Teams of workers are mobilizing in the Gulf of Mexico to try to stem a natural gas leak at an offshore drilling rig that exploded and caught fire Tuesday. The rig off the Louisiana coast has been partially destroyed by the out of control blaze, and firefighting boats are on the scene. While that might call to mind images of the BP oil disaster in 2010, experts say the incidents are vastly different. Chris Reddy, an oil spill expert and chemist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, was...
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Transport Canada issues emergency directive to increase rail safety following Lac-Mégantic disaster
2013-07-24 13:30:09| Green Car Congress
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safety
Regional Disaster Debris Management Planning Project Stakeholder Meeting #1 Minutes
2013-07-24 00:05:17| PortlandOnline
The document contains the minutes from the first stakeholder meeting of the Regional Disaster Debris Management Planning Project PDF Document, 177kbCategory: Updates
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