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How Activists Yelled an Abortion Bill to Death
2013-06-29 04:40:10| Energy - Topix.net
Minutes before midnight in the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, thousands of protesters stopped a restrictive abortion bill in its tracks by yelling at the top of their lungs.
How Activists Yelled an Abortion Bill to Death
2013-06-28 19:21:59| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, cheering with activists to disrupt the last minutes of the vote on Senate Bill 5. Minutes before midnight in the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, thousands of protesters stopped a restrictive abortion bill in its tracks by yelling at the top of their lungs.
Study says tar-sands oil not more likely to leak; activists fault study
2013-06-27 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline cheered Tuesdays release of a study that deemed diluted bitumen - the heavy crude mined in Albertas tar sands that Keystone would carry to Texas - just as safe to transport via pipeline as other forms of crude oil. They see the results as further clearing the way for approval of the pipeline. But environmental groups criticized the methodology and limited scope of the study, which was conducted by the National Academy of Sciences. From Inside Climate News:...
After mass bumblebee die-off, activists call for new pesticide rules
2013-06-26 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Even as Oregonians are mourning and memorializing the tens of thousands of bees killed in a recent pesticide spraying, they`re also trying to prevent other bees from meeting a similarly tragic end. That means keeping the pollinators away from the poisoned trees that caused the deaths. And for some activists, it also means pushing for new rules and policies to curb use of neonicotinoid insecticides. The tragedy started a week and a half ago when a landscaping company sprayed Safari neonic insecticide...
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SP and Congress activists clash at programme presided over by Beni Prasad Verma
2013-06-25 13:01:14| Steel - Topix.net
SP activists raised slogans and clashed with Congress workers during the foundation stone laying ceremony of a processing unit of Steel Authority of India by Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma.
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