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West Coast leaders sign climate change pact, bypassing DC
2013-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tiime: On the federal level, climate change bills get stuck in committees like terrible pop songs get lodged in our heads. But governors on the West Coast are trying to spur action. On Monday, leaders of Oregon, Washington and California, along with a proxy for the premier of British Columbia, signed a regional pact to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy--while acknowledging that their efforts would be more powerful if other states and leaders got on board. At a press conference in San Francisco...
Obama Bypassing Congress on Climate
2013-08-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The success of President Obama's second-term climate agenda hinges on a set of regulations now in the works at the Environmental Protection Agency. His plan to combat global warming through new emissions standards and a shift toward increased renewable energy faces serious opposition from business groups, and Congress is steeling for battle. But if the regulations survive the attacks -- and subsequent legal challenges -- they could amount to one of the president's most consequential initiatives,...
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Vodafone's Verizon Payday Seen as Bypassing U.K. Treasury
2013-05-04 04:48:30| IT Services - Topix.net
Vodafone Group Plc may reap $100 billion from its investment in U.S. mobile-phone venture Verizon Wireless and the U.K. government probably won't get a penny thanks to an automatic exemption.
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Bypassing the telecoms: 'Stingrays' allow direct government phone surveillance with little oversight
2013-03-10 02:50:34| Telecom - Topix.net
The third panel at Yale Law School's Location Tracking and Biometrics conference last weekend focused on so-called "Stingray" devices, which is a trade name for a fake cell-phone tower operated by police that tricks your phone into sending its signal to them instead of your cell-phone carrier.
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Bypassing the telecoms: 'Stingrays' allow direct government phone surveillance with little oversight
2013-03-10 01:41:47| Wireless - Topix.net
The third panel at Yale Law School's Location Tracking and Biometrics conference last weekend focused on so-called "Stingray" devices, which is a trade name for a fake cell-phone tower operated by police that tricks your phone into sending its signal to them instead of your cell-phone carrier.
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