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Bernie Sanders leads proposal to ban drilling on public land
2015-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Two senators, one of whom is a candidate for president next year, introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at aggressively fighting climate change by outlawing the extraction of fossil fuels from federal land. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., launched the legislation -- called the Keep It in the Ground Act -- which seeks to accelerate the transition to clean energy. If passed, the law would end all new federal leases for oil, gas or coal extraction on publicly-owned lands...
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Sanders says Obama should reject Keystone XL pipeline now
2015-11-05 06:52:44| Energy - Topix.net
The pipeline's developer, Calgary-based TransCanada, has asked U.S. officials to delay consideration of the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline, potentially putting off a decision until the next U.S. president takes office in 2017. said the department wrote to TransCanada on Wednesday and "communicated our decision to continue our review."
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Bernie Sanders launches new climate plan to curb US fossil fuel extraction
2015-11-04 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bernie Sanders launched a new climate campaign on Wednesday, aimed at fighting global warming by banning new coal, oil and gas mining on public land. The Keep it in the Ground Act co-sponsored by the senator and Democratic presidential candidate aims at plugging one of the big gaps in Barack Obamas climate change plan: his administrations continued sanction of fossil fuel extraction on the governments lands and waters. The bill, jointly introduced with Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator...
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Miriam Sanders: Be Open to Learning from Anyone
2015-11-04 03:21:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Miriam Sanders philosophy is to never stop learning. She continues to learn by developing and teaching new courses at SEL University, in Irvine, California. read more
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Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders jumps into local Verizon union fight
2015-10-27 09:48:03| Telecom - Topix.net
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders waded into a labor dispute involving Verizon on Monday, urging the telecommunications giant to negotiate a fair contract for 39,000 members of the Communications Workers of America. The Democratic presidential candidate joined Verizon workers at a demonstration outside a Verizon Wireless store near Times Square.
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