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U.S. senate panel mulls future of natural gas policy
2013-02-12 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. natural gas policy, from hydraulic fracturing to exports, came under the microscope on Tuesday as environmental and industry groups presented their views on the issue to Congress and divided along mostly familiar lines. On a day U.S. President Barack Obama is set to lay out his agenda in the annual State of the Union address, the Senate Energy Committee examined the implications of a shale gas revolution that has upended the American energy outlook. Technological breakthroughs in the drilling...
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Guns-in-parking lots bill passes Tennessee Senate
2013-02-12 15:14:14| Air Courier - Topix.net
The Tennessee state Senate approved a measure to allow employees to bring handguns to their workplace and store them in their locked cars By a 25-7 margin, the measure was passed after Senator Minority Leader Jim Kyle , D-Memphis attempt to add an amendment aimed at allowing businesses with "special risks" to obtain a waiver to maintain the ban.
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Supervisor Farr to Testify at State Senate Hearing on Hydraulic Fracturing
2013-02-12 03:38:35| Waste Management - Topix.net
Santa Barbara County Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr will be offering testimony regarding hydraulic fracturing on Tuesday morning to the Senate Committees on Natural Resources and Water and Environmental Quality in Sacramento.
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Bill tightening state's mobile home laws stalls in Iowa Senate subcommittee
2013-02-06 20:27:15| Mobile Homes - Topix.net
A bill that would tightening the regulation of the state's mobile home industry has stalled in an Iowa Senate subcommittee.
Representative Ed Markey throws his hat into the Senate race
2013-02-02 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: One day after former Senator Scott Brown announced he would not run in the special Senate race for John Kerrys vacated seat, Representative Ed Markey, a Democrat from Malden, formally announced his plan to make a run for the spot in the US Senate. In a 20-minute speech at the Malden YMCA where Markey played basketball as a child, he made no mention of the Republican who would have been perhaps his most fearsome opponent. Instead, he regaled a crowd of about 500 supporters in the gymnasium...
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