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GOP's Plan to Undermine Global Climate Talks
2015-09-08 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive - including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office - to undermine President Barack Obama's hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy. The GOP strategy, emerging after months of quiet discussions, includes sowing doubts about Obama's climate policies at home and abroad, trying to block key environmental regulations in Congress, and...
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Why Contracts Undermine Subcontractor Protection
2015-07-15 19:06:57| ENR.com: Headline News
Why despite payment protections aren't subcontractors protected? The construction industry's pervasive culture of risk-shifting, says the author.
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Climate change threatens to undermine the last half century of health gains
2015-06-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health, according to a major new Commission, published in The Lancet. However, the report provides comprehensive new evidence showing that because responses to mitigate and adapt to climate change have direct and indirect health benefits -- from reducing air pollution to improving diet -- concerted global efforts to tackle climate change actually represent one...
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Climate change could undermine the last 50 years of health advances
2015-06-23 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years of advances in medical health, scientists have warned as they published a major report outlining the threat of global warming. The authors from University College London and the University of Cambridge called for major policy changes to cut pollution including phasing out coal-fired plants and investing in green cities, energy and transport. Without major change they say climate change could be sufficient to trigger a discontinuity in the...
Will the falling oil price undermine green energy?
2015-01-30 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Common sense would surely tell you that if you slash the cost of one source of energy, then alternatives look less appealing. You might think, therefore, that the crash in the price of oil must be dealing a potentially fatal blow to renewable power. An illustration from recent history seems to back that up. When the oil price spiked in the 1970s, the then US president Jimmy Carter had solar panels fixed to the White House roof, only to see his successor Ronald Reagan rip them off when the...