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Australia: Adani's Carmichael coalmine proves environment laws 'too weak' report
2016-09-11 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias environmental laws are too weak, a new report argues, citing the Carmichael coalmine as an example. Even what the environment minister has described as the strictest environmental conditions on the development allow the destruction of endangered species habitats, the degradation of ecologically and culturally significant water bodies, as well as the production of fossil fuels for burning, it says. When the federal environment minister gave the most recent approval for Adanis huge...
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US court says FCC can't block state laws on public broadband
2016-08-11 07:38:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) A US federal appeals court has overturned a Federal Communications Commission ruling allowing city-owned broadband services to expand into areas overlooked by commercial providers, AP reports. The court said the FCC overstepped its authority and could not pre-empt state or local laws. The decision comes as part of a dispute between the FCC and the two states Tennessee and North Carolina. Both states had passed laws preventing local providers in their respective cities of Chattanooga and Wilson to expand broadband services to surrounding areas. The FCC last year voted to override those laws, prompting the court appeal from the states. State lawmakers have argued that private broadband providers will have difficulty competing with service subsidised by local governments. Attorneys for Tennessee and North Carolina had argued the issue is one of state sovereignty.
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'Alarming' trend in Queensland tree clearing figures spurs call for tighter laws
2016-08-08 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of hectares of land have been cleared in Queensland, a new study has found, after a surge led by cattle graziers under relaxed laws that the state government is seeking to overturn. A state science department study on land cover released on Sunday found 296,000 hectares of land was cleared in 2014-15, more than a third of it in Great Barrier Reef catchments. The deputy premier, Jackie Trad, said this was an alarming trend that demanded immediate action to protect the...
Michigan to Reconsider Garbage Laws, Boost Composting and Recycling Efforts
2016-07-20 07:09:56| Waste Age
Michigan is poised to bury its dependence on heaping garbage in landfills in favor of a rules that emphasize more recycling, composting and other re-uses. read more
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Michigan Looking at Solid Waste Laws
2016-07-05 17:12:00| Waste Age
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is inviting the public to comment on draft proposals to amend the state's solid waste laws. read more
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