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Keystone Senate vote hangs in balance after Obama remarks
2014-11-17 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. Senate scrambled on Monday to gather one last vote to pass a bill that authorizes the project that would help send Canadian oil to the U.S. Gulf, a task made harder after President Barack Obama made his toughest comments yet on the topic. All eyes were on Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat who is retiring. He had originally told backers he would vote "no." But unions and the oil industry were pressuring him, an aide to a top Republican...
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VIDEO: India hangs on to food protection
2014-11-14 02:45:00| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A major world trade deal looks solved now that India and the US have resolved a row over food subsidies but India is keeping part of its status quo - for now.
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Biotech park future hangs fire
2014-11-14 01:50:19| Biotech - Topix.net
Bhubaneswar, Nov. 13: The future of a biotech park at Andharua on the city outskirts looks uncertain with no work having been done on the allotted plot. Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation has issued a notice in this connection to its partner company, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which was to execute the project.
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Calif. Heads for Warmest Year As Drought Hangs On
2014-10-14 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Heavy precipitation fell across parts of the West in September, and while some locations saw top-10 wettest Septembers, much of the region is still mired in deep drought. Part of that is due to the excess heat that's afflicted the region this year, including what's been the warmest year to date in California according to U.S. temperature data released on Tuesday. In a role reversal, the normally parched landscape of the Southwest saw record rainfall while verdant New England had a top-10 driest...
Exxon's $700 million Russian Arctic oil well hangs on sanctions
2014-09-13 17:57:23| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s work on a $700 million Arctic well in Russia could be stopped before it's finished under new U.S. and European Union sanctions that outlaw the drilling partnership. New sanctions ban U.S. and EU companies from working with Russian officials or companies to find or produce crude from deep seas, shale fields or the Arctic.
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