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Oil companies played hardball in bid to defeat climate outsiders

2015-06-29 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Petty legal filings. Diversionary ballot measures. Counting abstentions as no votes. These are just some of the tactics U.S. oil companies used this spring to quash efforts by investors to win the right to nominate climate experts for board seats. Led by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and proposed at 75 U.S. companies in various industries this year, the so-called proxy access measure would give investor groups who own 3 percent of a company for more than three years the right to nominate...

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House Democrats hand President defeat on trade

2015-06-15 16:03:00| National Hog Farmer

By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. House Democrats handed President Barack Obama a stunning loss on his trade agenda by failing to advance trade promotion authority (TPA). The House of Representatives passed TPA by a vote of 219-211 but failed to reauthorize Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) by a vote of 126-302. Under the House rule both TPA and TAA needed to pass to advance the overall trade bill. read more

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Three Strikes: Bond request in Idaho district goes down to defeat again

2015-05-21 21:41:00| American School & University

For the third time in 14 months, voters in Bonneville District No. 93 have rejected a proposal to build a high school. read more

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Court orders Pirate Bay blockade, users defeat it within minutes

2015-03-30 17:02:39| Extremetech

A judge in Spain ordered service providers in that country to block access to the Pirate Bay within 72 hours. Some did so immediately. But it turns out that even from within Spain, it's quite easy to get around the blockade.

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