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API's Gerard Tells Congress RFS Disaster Can Be Averted
2013-07-30 05:21:39| oilandgasonline Home Page
At a U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing recently, API President and CEO Jack Gerard testified that the federal biofuels mandate, known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), is broken beyond repair but that disaster can still be averted.
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Energy Exemplar to Present at the International Congress of System Operation and Energy Markets
2013-07-30 01:00:00| Power Technology
Operation of electric power systems becomes increasingly difficult and demanding due to various factors, such as complexity of systems, equipment and networks mixture of different technologies, age, degree of obsolescence, different owners, reduced s
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Refocusing the Debate in Congress on Climate Change
2013-07-26 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Nobody wants climate change to be real. It's scary. It's hard. We would all much rather it wasn't happening. But denial is a costly proposition. Just ask the insurance industry. Last week, at the Senate's first hearing on the issue since President Obama rolled out his comprehensive plan to respond to climate change, insurance representatives voiced concern about the recent spike in severe weather. The surge in claims, they said, has forced billions of dollars in payouts. They urged federal agencies...
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Oklahoma scientists, Christians, urge congress to act on climate change
2013-07-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oklahoma's Own: Two ORU professors are calling on Congress to take climate change seriously. They're part of a group of 200 scientists, who are also evangelical Christians, who have petitioned Congress to act now to help stem the tide of climate change. The Oklahoma Climatological Survey says our state has experienced the warmest year, the hottest summer, and the warmest spring on record--all in just the last two years. Climate change has become a hot-button political issue. Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe...
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Optimism Misplaced With Current Congress
2013-07-16 23:07:00| Beef
By: Ron Smith for Farm Press Blog Overall, Im a pretty optimistic fellow. In fact, my wife often refers to me as a Pollyanna, always assuming the best of people and situations. Needless to say, my optimism is often ill founded and more often than I like to admit results in disappointment. read more
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