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US senators vow to block climate aid, scrutinize Paris deal
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday said Congress would not approve the Obama administration's $500 million request for its first payment into a United Nations climate fund, a move they said would undermine the upcoming climate change summit in Paris. "This president is going to go (to Paris) with no money," said Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who chaired a hearing in the Senate environment panel on the international climate negotiations, which begin on Nov. 30. Capito...
Senators want to pay federal agencies to give up un-needed spectrum
2015-11-08 21:45:33| Wireless - Topix.net
US senators on Friday unveiled legislation to shift spectrum from federal agencies to the mobile industry, which would provide more capacity for smartphones and other devices that rely on wireless Internet access. A draft of the bill from the Senate Commerce Committee proposes "a system of financial incentives for federal agencies to give up more of their underused spectrum," The Wall Street Journal wrote .
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Senators urge Obama administration to include carbon costs in coal program
2015-11-02 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Democratic U.S. senators on Monday urged the Obama administration to reform the federal coal mine program to include costs of the fuel's carbon emissions and potentially raise royalties paid by companies that mine the fuel on public lands. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, the top Democrat on the senate energy panel, and seven other senators asked Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in a letter to use the agency's existing powers to develop a plan on federal coal mining. The federal leasing...
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US senators press Exxon for answers on climate denial funding
2015-10-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked ExxonMobil Corp. on Thursday whether it made donations to a financial clearinghouse that were funneled to climate denial groups after the oil company said it had stopped making direct contributions to them. Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, said his inquiry was sparked by investigative articles published recently by InsideClimate News, the Los Angeles Times, and others. The letter was also signed by three other Democratic senators: Richard Blumenthal...
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Four Republican senators form a green coalition to discuss climate change
2015-10-29 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Four moderate Republican senators have just joined forces to encourage their party to think critically about climate change, Politico reports. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) created an "informal coalition" to work against what they believe is an unsustainable GOP outlook on environmental policy. All four senators have previously gone on record with the belief that human activity causes climate change, a scientifically backed notion that most...
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