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Senators call for investigation into Verizon 'supercookies'
2015-02-06 23:27:03| IT Services - Topix.net
Democratic senators on Friday called on federal regulators to investigate Verizon Wireless, the country's biggest mobile provider, for secretly inserting unique tracking codes into the Web traffic of its some 100 million customers. Data privacy experts have accused Verizon of violating consumers' privacy by using "supercookies," an identifying string of letters and numbers attached to each site visited on a person's mobile device.
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Senators Vote in Circles about Global Warming and Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-01-30 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: The U.S. Senate voted 62 to 36 yesterday to build the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring oil from tar sands in Canada down through the U.S. Tar sands are one of the dirtiest forms of oil and expansion of their use would ensure too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, helping climate change wreak even more havoc. Yet this prospect is exactly what many of the same Senators who approved the pipeline voted to avoid, philosophically at least, just last week. How can that be? And who...
US senators aim force high-profile vote on climate science
2015-01-20 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: The political war over climate science is flaring up again on Capitol Hill this week as the U.S. Senate debates a bill that would approve the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Pipeline opponents, many of whom oppose the project because they say it would accelerate climate change, are trying to secure votes on a number of largely symbolic amendments affirming the Senates belief that climate change is real and human-caused and that policymakers should address it. The pipeline opponents,...
Energy drink companies unwilling to protect teenagers, say US senators
2015-01-12 22:40:28| Beverages - Topix.net
The majority of the energy drinks market is unwilling to commit to protecting adolescents, according to a report by three US Senators. Companies pledge to refrain from marketing energy drinks to children under 12 years old, in accordance with American Beverage Association guidelines.
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State Senators Launch Effort to Block Pilgrim Oil Pipeline Through 7 New Jersey Counties
2014-12-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NJ: State Senate Republican leader Tom Kean Jr. and state Sen. Richard Codey today announced they have introduced a resolution opposing the planned Pilgrim Pipeline, which would carry volatile oil through seven New Jersey counties over 178 miles from Linden to Albany, N.Y. The move was expected, as NJ Advance Media previously reported earlier this week. The Senate resolution follows a similar measure introduced in the Assembly last week. Gov. Chris Christie has declined to comment on what he thinks...
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