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Goals for global warming clash with reality
2015-12-11 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Two sets of reality are clashing as climate talks go into overtime: Diplomatic real politics and hard science. Top experts say that while a goal of limiting warming in a new draft climate agreement is laudable, the rest of the proposed pact doesnt provide the tools to achieve it and in some ways, it even goes backward. Theres an absolutely huge disconnect between the negotiations and the political rhetoric, and whats very clearly coming out of the science, Kevin Anderson, deputy director...
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Chinese protesters clash with police over garbage dump
2015-12-10 12:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chinese police have clashed with hundreds of protesters opposed to the construction of a rubbish depot because of health worries, residents and media said on Thursday, in the latest incident of public anger over the environment. The demonstrators overturned a police car and scuffled with officers in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, according to photographs on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, posted by the Jingchu Network, a website run by the provincial propaganda department. Four residents...
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In debate over crude oil exports, jobs advocates clash with environmentalists
2015-12-05 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The story of the Arab oil embargo of 1973, with its high gasoline prices and long car lines at service stations, is a distant memory at best, a tale told by parents and aging relatives. Almost two-thirds of all Americans alive today were toddlers then or had not been born. The legacy of that all-but-forgotten episode in the nations history has triggered a new, little-noticed partisan political battle in Washington a fight to lift the 40-year-old restriction on U.S. crude oil exports imposed as...
Net neutrality fans and broadband backers clash in court
2015-12-05 03:28:16| Telecom - Topix.net
Both sides in the fight over net neutrality said they're confident they'll win over a federal appeals court that's hearing legal challenges to the FCC's actions on the hotly contested issue. Lawyers gave oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Friday and faced questions from judges in a case that could reshape the way the government treats both the wired and mobile broadband industries.
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US court clash on 'Open Internet' rules, version 3.0
2015-12-04 23:23:16| Telecom - Topix.net
Washington:Backers and opponents of "Open Internet" rules clashed Friday in a federal appeals court, in the third round of a battle on how US broadband providers may be regulated. The so-called "net neutrality" case, one of the most hotly contested tech policy issues in Washington, tests whether online services like Netflix, Yelp and new startups should have equal access through Internet service firms like Verizon and AT&T.
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