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Climate science teaching ban faces review in state House
2015-01-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jackson Hole News: Wyoming legislators will consider soon whether to remove a restriction on teaching about climate change in public schools. A bill that will hit the House floor this month in the Wyoming Legislatures general session aims to reverse a state ban on implementing new national standards called Next Generation Science Standards. Legislators never had a chance to debate the restraint; it was added as a last-minute footnote in the March 2014 budget discussion to strip funding from reviewing the standards....
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Blue Valley Ban Corp adds well-known names to its board
2015-01-07 10:40:18| Railroads - Topix.net
McDonnell was CEO of Kansas City-based DST Systems from 1973 to 2012, building it into a major company with 11,000 employees around the globe. For the past two years, McDonnell worked as CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; he retired in June .
N.H. Preps For Hand-Held Cell Phone Ban Public Awareness Campaign
2015-01-02 12:56:05| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A campaign is set to launch soon aimed at raising awareness of a new law taking effect later this year banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. Come July, drivers in the Granite State will have to use a hands-free device if they want to talk on their cell phones.
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New Yorks ban on high-volume fracking rocks the foundations of 'shale revolution.'
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DC Bureau: Emboldened by mounting scientific evidence and shifting poll data, Gov. Andrew Cuomo veered sharply away from Americas conventional wisdom about the wonders of high-volume hydraulic fracturing of shale formations when he banned the practice in New York State on Dec. 17. While the oil and gas titans hope to contain the uprising to one state, the environmental advocates who masterminded it are quietly optimistic that it represents a tipping point, signaling impending decline for fossil fuels decades-long...
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Plastic Bag Manufacturers Spend $3 Million Hoping Repeal Calif Ban
2014-12-31 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This past September, California became the first state in the U.S. to ban single-use plastic bags when Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill sponsored by San Fernando Valley State Senator Alex Padilla, overcoming heavy lobbying and big spending from a handful of out-of-state bag manufacturers. This bill is a step in the right directionit reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself, said Brown in September. Were the first to ban these bags, and we...
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