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Oswar-winning financier Ken Lipper is trying to reform the Port Authority

2014-06-22 15:10:56| Footwear - Topix.net

Port Authority Commissioner Kenneth Lipper has the kind of diverse record of accomplishment that a scholar of the agency, Jameson Doig, believes will help him remain an independent and outspoken steward of the toll paying public's trust.

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Germany backs EU carbon market reform by 2017

2014-06-14 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The German government wants the EU's carbon market reform plan to be implemented by 2017, four years earlier than the European Commission has proposed, Germany's Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said on Thursday. The European Commission, the EU executive, has proposed setting up a so-called market stability reserve from 2021 to hold and release permits to balance supply in the bloc's Emissions Trading System (ETS) and better respond to economic changes. Analysts say that starting the...

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Ag Has A Dog In The Immigration Reform Hunt

2014-06-12 22:23:00| Beef

Immigration reform and agriculture is a topic I feel qualified to write about. Thats because my opinion on the subject, like that of most folks, is ever-evolving. My View From The Country read more

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A year after Snowden revelations, Microsoft demands NSA reform

2014-06-05 13:37:21| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft has asked the U.S. government to recognize that its search warrants should end at the country's borders, reflecting growing concern that surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency could impact business abroad for tech companies. The demand for reform comes close to the anniversary of the first revelations of NSA snooping by its former contractor Edward Snowden.

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