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Christies new woe: Court rules he illegally dumped climate protections

2014-03-26 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: As if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn`t have enough problems! A three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that Christie`s administration broke state law in 2011 when it withdrew New Jersey from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. That`s because it didn`t bother going through any formal rulemaking procedures before pulling out of the carbon-cutting program. Instead, administration officials stated on a government website that the state wouldn`t participate in the program - and then argued in court...

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EPA Proposes Greater Protections for Streams, Wetlands under Clean Water Act

2014-03-26 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule Tuesday that would give the federal government regulatory authority over millions of acres of wetlands and about 2 million miles of streams. The proposal, which is subject to a 90-day comment period slated to begin in a few weeks, would lead to stricter pollution controls on some of these areas and aims to resolve a long-running legal battle over how to apply the Clean Water Act to the nation's intermittent and ephemeral streams and wetlands....

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Google tightens Gmail's HTTPS protections in light of government snooping

2014-03-20 19:57:46| InfoWorld: Top News

Citing the need to protect users from government cyber spying, Google has tightened Gmail's encryption screws by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. Google first gave people the option of encrypting their Gmail sessions via the HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) communications protocol in 2008. Google turned it on by default in 2010 for all users, but allowed them to turn it off manually. Not anymore.

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NY lawmakers seek protections on religious attire

2014-03-17 15:19:35| Railroads - Topix.net

Two New York state lawmakers from Queens are promoting a bill that would protect workers from religious discrimination based on how they dress.

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Researchers bypass protections in Microsoft's EMET anti-exploitation tool

2014-02-25 19:42:35| InfoWorld: Top News

Security researchers managed to bypass the protections offered by Microsoft's EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit), a utility designed to detect and block software exploits, and concluded that the tool would not be effective against determined attackers.

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