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Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told
2013-06-04 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate change, the country's forest service chief told Congress on Tuesday. But the forest service was forced to make sharp cuts to fire prevention programmes, and reduce the numbers of fire-fighters and engines because of budget pressures, Thomas Tidwell, the chief of the United States Forest Service, told...
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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst: Legislature's efforts far outpace Congress'
2013-06-03 03:45:07| Electronics - Topix.net
Texas is great because it is the last great land of the free and home of the brave, all pursuing the American dream.
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Congress May Level Playing Field for LNG and Diesel Fuel Taxes
2013-05-31 07:53:20| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The Article Congress May Level Playing Field for LNG and Diesel Fuel Taxes appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Congress May Level Playing Field for LNG and Diesel Fuel Taxes
2013-05-31 07:02:35| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The US House of Representative is looking at a bi-partisan bill introduced on May 23 that will reduce taxation on liquefied natural gas as a transportation fuel. Its based on leveling the playing field for transportation fuel based on an energy equivalent basis. Currently, the federal highway excise tax on both diesel and LNG is set at 24.3 cents per gallon, but it takes about 1.7 gallons of LNG to equal the energy content of one gallon of diesel 70% higher than diesel..... The Article Congress May Level Playing Field for LNG and Diesel Fuel Taxes appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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ABTCP To Hold 46th Pulp And Paper International Congress And Exhibition In Partnership With Paper Engineers' Association
2013-05-31 03:56:51| pulpandpaperonline News Articles
The largest event ofLatin America's pulp and paper industry, ABTCP 2013 – 46th Pulp and Paper International Congress and Exhibitionwilltake placefromOctober 8th to October 10th at the Transamerica Expo Center in Sao Paulo, and is expected to bring together more than 180 exhibitors and some 8,000 visitors from various countries
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