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Serbia's EU bid comes with heavy environmental bill
2016-05-30 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: BOR, Serbia For cattle in the Serbian village of Slatina, drinking from the Borska Reka river is likely to prove deadly. A stream of yellow and brown sludge comprised largely of toxic waste, the Borska Reka has for a century been a run-off from a nearby copper mine and is one of Serbia's most polluted places. It also symbolises the multi-billion-euro environmental problem that heavily indebted Serbia must tackle in its next phase of talks on joining the European Union. The Borska Reka is...
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Australia: Labor leader Bill Shorten visits the Great Barrier Reef which is under threat from climate change
2016-05-30 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: IF YOU are confused about what the major parties are doing about environment policy, youre not the only one. The subject has been bogged down in claims and counterclaims and no where was this more apparent than during a leaders debate on Sunday, and one held at the National Press Club earlier this month between the environment ministers. How do you make sense of it all? Here's our easy guide to understanding what's going on. WHY EVERYONE CARES ABOUT THE 'TARGET' Both Labor and Liberal parties...
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House committee passes child nutrition bill with block grant pilot program
2016-05-30 05:06:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. On a party-line vote, the House Education and Workforce Committee passed the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016 which reauthorizes child nutrition programs including school breakfast, school lunch and summer feeding program. read more
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Polluters have to pay full cost of emissions after bill passes final hurdle
2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Stuff: Polluters won't be getting a half-price deal on the cost of their greenhouse gas emissions any longer. A bill to get rid of the two-for-one measure in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has passed its third and final reading in Parliament on Friday. The measure allowed companies across fossil fuel, industrial, energy and waste sectors to surrender one New Zealand Unit for every two tonnes of carbon emitted, halving their costs. It was brought in during the global financial crisis in 2009 to help...
API Welcomes House Action To Move Comprehensive Energy Bill
2016-05-27 06:21:59| oilandgasonline Home Page
The American Petroleum Institute applauded today’s action by the U.S. House of Representatives to pass its amendment to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, and vote to go to conference with the Senate to advance comprehensive, bipartisan energy legislation that will expedite LNG export permitting and ensure natural gas pipelines are permitted more efficiently.
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