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GOP: War on coal key campaign issue
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Congressional Republicans are seizing on a new set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations as a key political issue for the 2014 election cycle, returning to a strategy that helped the GOP wrest control of the House from Democrats three years ago. Nearly 20 lawmakers on Thursday condemned a proposed EPA rule limiting greenhouse gas emissions, calling it a part of a war on coal that would decimate the industry, put thousands of people out of work and raise energy prices. Among them...
House GOP Defends Cruz from Media Attacks
2013-09-20 01:29:24| Electronics - Topix.net
Several House members are backing up Sen. Ted Cruz and his leadership role in the effort to defund Obamacare in the wake of attacks from the mainstream media and anonymous statements from establishment Republicans and their staffers.
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Search is on for a GOP climate convert
2013-09-14 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Environmentalists are searching for a Rob Portman to call their own -- a high-profile Republican who would emulate the Ohio senator's flip on gay marriage, only this time by supporting action on climate change. But the search for that elusive green Republican has so far come up short -- and the prospects aren't looking good in the short term. That hasn't stopped climate activists from sending people to GOP lawmakers' district offices during the August recess, running ads lambasting "climate...
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House GOP demands Harvard study data
2013-09-07 14:37:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: House Republicans scouring for evidence of overreaching environmental regulations are taking aim at a two-decade-old, taxpayer-funded scientific study by Harvard researchers that linked air pollution to disease and death. Even though the landmark study has held up under intense scientific scrutiny since its publication in 1993, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology took the rare step of issuing subpoenas last month demanding access to the study's raw data about thousands of individual...
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Climate change is cleaving the GOP in two
2013-09-06 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Earlier this summer, conservatives and libertarians packed Washington, D.C.`s Globe Theatre for a debate on how - or whether, even - Republicans should fight climate change. On one side were analysts from the Heartland Institute and Heritage Foundation, two climate skepticism groups convinced the Right should never support a tax on the carbon dioxide Americans emit for free. Theirs is also the position of the Republican Party, whose leaders openly question the science behind global warming,...
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