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Australia repeals carbon tax, scientists freak out
2014-07-17 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The cartoonish stereotype of Australia of yesteryear featured a rough-headed bloke in an Akubra hat wrangling crocodiles. That image has finally been scrubbed from our collective memories -- only to be replaced with something worse. Today, when we read news dispatches from Australia, we`re seeing a dunderheaded prime minister cartoonishly wrangling commonsense, becoming the first leader in the warming world to repeal a price on carbon. It`s like George W. Bush, Crocodile Dundee-style. Conservative...
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Australia repeals carbon tax
2014-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: After almost a decade of heated political debate, Australia has become the world's first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions. In a vote that could highlight the difficulty in implementing additional measures to reduce carbon emissions ahead of global climate talks next year in Paris, Australia's Senate on Thursday voted 39-32 to repeal a politically divisive carbon emissions price that contributed to the fall from power of three Australian leaders...
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Australian parliament repeals carbon tax, emissions trading scheme
2014-07-17 03:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Australian Senate voted on Thursday to scrap the country's carbon tax and plans for emissions trading, a major victory for conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott that leaves uncertainty about how Australia will meet its carbon reduction goals.
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Australia: Coalition expected to drop refrigerant gases from carbon tax repeal laws
2014-07-13 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Refrigerant gases have apparently been struck out of the carbon tax repeal bills legal requirement for price cuts to be passed on to consumers, even though they were at the centre of the Abbott oppositions dire warnings about price hikes. As opposition leader, Tony Abbott repeatedly warned that big increases in the cost of refrigerant gases would flow straight through to the price of food and other goods. It is a hit on their refrigerant costs. Refrigerant gases are going up almost five...
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Australian Senate delays carbon tax repeal
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Australian Senate rejected legislation to repeal the country's carbon tax on Thursday because it did not guarantee savings would be passed onto consumers, but amended legislation could still pass as early as next week. Mining magnate Clive Palmer's Palmer United Party (PUP), which holds the balance of power in the Senate, had said it would pass the legislation but withdrew support at the last minute. "We're very clear: we support the removal of the carbon tax, but we don't support the removal...
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