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Obama's inaugural ambitions meet political reality
2013-07-20 14:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Six months ago, President Barack Obama stood on the Capitol steps and offered a soaring liberal vision for his second term. Buoyed by re-election, he said the nation must pursue without delay steps to protect children from gun violence, tackle climate change and overhaul fractured immigration laws. But the intervening months have showcased the political limits of Obama's ambitions. The result has been an uneven and sometimes disjointed first half of what arguably could be the most important year...
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Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions
2013-07-18 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As China pushes an aggressive expansion of nuclear power it is running into a major stumbling block - a breakdown of trust, post-Fukushima, in official assurances of public safety. A plan to build a $6 billion uranium processing plant in the southern province of Guangdong was canceled this week after about a thousand people took to the streets demanding the project was scrapped over public health and environmental fears. Beijing plans to plough tens of billions of dollars into the construction...
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Political ambitions motivate Republicans in Texas abortion fight
2013-07-02 18:41:23| Electronics - Topix.net
The fight over Texas' sweeping anti-abortion bill is about women's lives, obviously.
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Bruce Dickinson's airline ambitions
2013-06-18 01:11:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Singer and pilot Bruce Dickinson on his airline ambitions
Millennium Development Goals falling short on environmental ambitions
2013-05-30 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: This week in New York City, the 27 members of the high-level panel of eminent persons appointed by the U.N. Secretary General will deliver a report providing recommendations on the post-2015 development agenda. This is a critical opportunity to address the inadequacies of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to chart a new course for sustainable development. The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must break from failed convention by integrating environmental and social dimensions...
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