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Will The Grass Be Greener In Obama's Second Term?
2013-01-20 23:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: One of the chief expectations of those who voted for President Obama is that he moves assertively to pass climate change legislation, whatever the political climate in Washington. "We have a bipartisan common interest in moving away from fossil fuels towards clean energy," says Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club. "The sooner that members of both parties in Congress realize that and develop solutions, the better off we'll all be." Bipartisan support is an elusive national...
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Warmer soils release additional CO2 into atmosphere; Effect stabilizes over longer term
2013-01-20 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Warmer temperatures due to climate change could cause soils to release additional carbon into the atmosphere, thereby enhancing climate change - but that effect diminishes over the long term, finds a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study, from UNH professor Serita Frey and co-authors from the University of California-Davis and the Marine Biological Laboratory, sheds new light on how soil microorganisms respond to temperature and could improve predictions of how climate warming...
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Will climate change get cold shoulder in Obama's second term?
2013-01-20 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: As President Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office for the second time, he has promised that climate change will be a priority in his second term. The chances that significant climate action will actually happen, however, remain slim, policy experts say. "I always have hope, but it is sometimes hard to see how real progress, substantial progress, is going to be made with the fact that the Congress is so polarized," said Travis Franck, a policy analyst for nongovernmental organization...
Harman Begins Term as Chair of the NAM's Council of Manufacturing Associations
2013-01-18 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman has taken over as chair of NAM's Council of Manufacturing Associations (CMA) to serve one-year term. According to NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons, Harman "will provide outstanding leadership to the CMA's efforts to advance pro-growth policies." Timmons cited her career highlights, such as successful and skillfull navigation of complex policy issues in Washington as well as her record of effective issue advocacy. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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Obama On Climate Change Faces High Expectations, And High Hurdles, In Second Term
2013-01-17 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future generations a nation not only free of debt and unencumbered by inequality, but also one "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." The laws of both physics and politics suggest he'll have his work cut out for him, and his second-term success will surely be measured on far more concrete terms. The president, after all, faces several...
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