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Australia should cut emissions by 19% to play fair role: Climate Change Authority report
2014-02-27 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia should reduce emissions by 19 per cent from 2000 levels by the end of the decade -- a significantly stronger target than the current pledge of a 5 per cent cut -- to play its part in stopping dangerous global warming, expert advice to the government says. A review by the independent Climate Change Authority has also found Australia should then dramatically ramp up its efforts in the following decade through a target to cut 40 to 60 per cent of its emissions by 2030. This would be...
Australia: Climate Change Authority rritating gadfly to Abbott
2014-02-27 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: To get an inkling of how serious the Abbott government is likely to take today's release of the final report on Australia's carbon emissions reduction goals by the Climate Change Authority, try finding any reference to the report - or the authority itself - on the Department of Environment website. As with the draft report released last November, the independent authority has concluded Australia's current goal of cutting emissions by 5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020 is inadequate. Rather,...
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Food Authority Criticised for Bacillus Safety Tests
2014-02-24 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU – The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has been criticised by a British veterinary body over its evaluation of the safety of bacillus species in the food chain.
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Supreme Court to consider EPAs authority to regulate greenhouse gases
2014-02-23 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Supreme Court's first big battle over climate change was initiated by states and environmentalists charging that the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush had abdicated its duty to regulate greenhouse gases. The sequel is the opposite: Different states and industrialists are charging that the EPA under President Obama has run amok with the power that the court gave it in that first case in 2007. A roundup of political observers in all 50 states either reveling or...
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Lawyer: Port Authority chair's vote misrecorded
2014-02-21 05:43:48| Railroads - Topix.net
In a letter dated Wednesday, a Port Authority lawyer notified chairman David Samson that a review concluded Samson meant to recuse himself from the February 2012 vote approving a lease for the New Jersey Transit park-and-ride lot.
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