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Senate COOL hearing
2015-06-22 12:32:00| National Hog Farmer
The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing this Thursday on country of origin labeling (COOL) and trade retaliation: what is at stake for Americas farmers, ranchers, businesses and consumers. read more
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EPA defends controversial biofuels program at Senate hearing
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. environmental regulator on Thursday defended its handling of the nation's controversial renewable fuels program at a congressional hearing, the first since its new biofuels targets last month provoked a furor among corn farmers and oil refiners. At the hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management, U.S. lawmakers criticized the agency for years-long delays to quotas and for last month setting unattainable targets for the amount of corn-based ethanol and...
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Senate panel advances $30B bill that targets EPA rules
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a $30.01 billion spending bill that takes aim at President Obamas environmental regulations. The bill would fund the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Interior Department for fiscal 2016, which begins Oct. 1, by $400 million below the level Congress enacted for 2015 and $2.2 billion less than Obamas request. Lawmakers voted 16-14 to advance the bill to the Senate floor. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), the ranking member on the...
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GOP-run Senate panel takes on Obama environmental rules
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Republicans controlling a powerful Senate committee moved Thursday to block Obama administration initiatives to curb global warming, issue new clean water rules and regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal land. The vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee represents a sweeping attack on the president's ambitious environmental agenda. Republicans say the rules themselves are an assault on the coal industry, farmers and western landowners. The battle played out on a $31 billion spending bill...
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Delaware Senate passes unclaimed property reforms
2015-06-19 01:56:53| Paper - Topix.net
Delaware Senate passes unclaimed property reforms Delaware Senate lawmakers on Thursday unanimously passed far-reaching reforms to the Delaware's controversial unclaimed property program, including Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/1MPYCGL Sen. Bryan Townsend, a Newark Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said the changes would make Delaware's program "more legally sustainable, more legally justifiable." Delaware Senate lawmakers on Thursday unanimously passed far-reaching reforms to the Delaware's controversial unclaimed property program, including changes long sought by companies incorporated here.
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