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Conservative push for solar is backed by usual green advocates
2015-05-15 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party firebrand from Woodstock Georgia, makes the case for solar power, she doesn't rely on the usual environmental talking points. She speaks of property rights, national security and free market competition. Former Republican Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr. casts his support for solar energy as a conservative stance against monopoly power utilities that "want to limit energy choice." Dooley and Goldwater, along with the right-leaning pro-solar groups they founded,...
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Film Producer Backed by FedEx Founder Said Near Loan Refinancing
2015-04-30 09:33:31| Air Courier - Topix.net
"Transcendence," the Johnny Depp sci-fi movie, cost $100 million to produce, according to researcher Box Office Mojo, and generated $103 million in ticket sales worldwide, a sum that's split with theaters. Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Alcon Entertainment, the independent film production company backed by FedEx Corp. founder Frederick Smith, is in talks to refinance about $200 million of loans, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Mussman Backed Bill Expanding Electronics Recycling Passes Illinois House
2015-04-29 22:03:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/">Chicago Tribune</a> As quantities of electronic waste continue to increase, state Rep. Michelle Mussman recently passed legislation that will help facilitate increased recycling of electronic products by manufacturers. read more
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Radio Astronomy Backed By Big Data Projects
2015-04-28 04:33:49| rfglobalnet Home Page
AS PART of Big Data Week (April 20-26), ScienceNetwork WA invited the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to share some of its insights on big data through a five-part series. Today, Curtin University Radio Astronomy Professor Steven Tingay explores how huge amounts of data generated by local astronomy projects is managed.
Insurers Backed Obamacare, Then Undermined It. Now They're Profiting From It
2015-04-21 23:24:10| Beverages - Topix.net
Anyone who still thinks the Affordable Care Act was a "government takeover of health care" should consider this headline from the news pages of last Thursday's Investor's Business Daily : That's from a Wall Street publication whose editorial writers have rarely missed an opportunity to bash the health care reform law. Here are a few other headlines, these from IBD's editorial page, just since the first of this year.
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