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AT&T-DirecTV Chiefs Dispute Charges That Merger Will Raise Prices And Limit Choices
2014-06-24 23:53:42| Telecom - Topix.net
AT&T's Randall Stephenson and DirecTV's Michael White faced some of the toughest questions they've encountered yet about their companies' planned $49B merger in two congressional hearings today.
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Republican ex-EPA chiefs say its time to act on climate change
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Herald: Four administrators of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents told a Senate panel Wednesday that climate change is real and the federal government has the responsibility and the legal authority to combat it. While saying they might differ on the details of how U.S. officials should react, the former administrators said the cost of delay _ or of doing nothing _ was high. In a hearing before a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee, William Ruckelshaus...
4 former Republican EPA chiefs laud power plant rule in Senate hearing
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Four former Republican U.S. EPA administrators praised the agency's climate change rule for existing power plants today in a Senate hearing room packed with coal miners expressing fear that the proposal would strangle their industry. The administrators told an Environment and Public Works subcommittee that current Administrator Gina McCarthy did what the Clean Air Act required in her proposal aimed at curbing the power sector's greenhouse gases. The rule was printed in the Federal Register today,...
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Republican EPA chiefs to Congress: Act on climate
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue Ridge Now: Top environmental regulators for four Republican presidents told Congress on Wednesday what many Republican lawmakers won't: Action is needed on global warming. In a congressional hearing organized to undermine Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's environmental proposals, Senate Democrats asked the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency for Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan to discuss the risks from climate change and what should be done about it....
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Republican ex-EPA chiefs voice support for new carbon rules
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising public support for action on climate change bodes well for federal regulations announced this month to limit pollution from power plants, four Republican former chiefs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a subcommittee chairman on the Senate Environment and Public Works panel, arranged for the officials to address a sharply divided committee that frequently clashes over the existence and causes of climate change. "We all feel strongly...
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