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Republican climate advocate makes big 2016 campaign gift
2015-07-06 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Republican entrepreneur seeking to push his party to fight climate change and support clean energy said on Sunday he has given his first big campaign gift to Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. Jay Faison, an audio tech executive who this year set up Clearpath, a foundation dedicated to explaining to Republicans the science behind climate change and business opportunities to fight carbon emissions, said he had given $500,000 to Ayotte, who was elected to the Senate in 2010. Faison, who gave...
Realtors Advocate For Homeowners, Real Estate Policies
2015-05-30 21:19:01| Real Estate - Topix.net
Members of the Cherokee Association of REALTORS last week attended the 2015 RealtorA Legislative Meetings and Trade Expo in Washington, D.C. Realtors and leaders from the Cherokee Association of REALTORS joined nearly 8,500 other guests from across the country to attend the 2015 RealtorA Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. While in the nation's capital, local participants last week met with U.S. Reps Barry Loudermilk of Cassville and Tom Price of Roswell, Senator Johnny Isakson and their staff members at Capitol Hill "to ensure qualified buyers and investors in Cherokee communities have access to safe and affordable mortgage financing and protect and advance real estate-related policies," the group said in its press release.
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The Keystone Pipeline Just Lost a Top Washington Advocate
2015-05-07 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: The upset election victory by a center-left party in Alberta--the heart of Canada's oil country--may also have eliminated one of the most public faces in the lobbying effort promoting the Keystone XL pipeline. Former Alberta premiers Alison Redford and Jim Prentice were frequent visitors to Washington to promote the pipeline, and touted it as a necessary project for promoting Canada's oil-sands development. Prentice, who served just eight months, visited D.C. in February, speaking at the U.S....
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Advocate wants $648M payout for 'inappropriate' nuke talks
2015-04-18 12:55:39| Energy - Topix.net
Two Southern California utilities should return at least $648 million to customers because of evidence of secret deal-making in a nearly $5 billion settlement following the closing of a nuclear power plant, a state agency said Friday. The Office of Ratepayer Advocates, an arm of the California Public Utilities Commission, said in a statement that private conversations between the commission's then-President Michael Peevey and a Southern California Edison executive gave the company an unfair advantage in negotiations over how to divide costs left behind by the now-defunct San Onofre plant.
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Phoenix honors equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter on Equal Pay Day
2015-04-15 05:00:38| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
On March 23, the city council passed an ordinance that makes sure the city follows the federal guidelines on equal pay and on Tuesday, National Equal Pay Day, the city honored Lilly Ledbetter, a proponent of equal pay, by declaring April 14, 2015 Lilly Ledbetter Day . Ledbetter was a supervisor for Goodyear Tire & Rubber in the 1980s and '90s and sued the company for paying her significantly less than her male counterparts.
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