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Philippines: Senator hits proliferation of coal power plants
2016-06-04 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philippine Star: The government should tap cleaner and less wasteful sources of energy and stop allowing more coal-fired power plants in the country, Sen. Loren Legarda said Friday. As chair of the Senate committee on climate change, Legarda lauded the Aquino administration's order for government agencies to review the Philippines' energy policy, which may see the country moving away from generating electricity through coal. "Our goal to reduce carbon emissions will be impossible if we will continue to allow...
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A Rhode Island Senator speaks out often about dangers of climate change
2016-05-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: I'm from the Ocean State, he explains. Ninety-plus percent of the heat captured from greenhouse gases has been taken up by the oceans. So they're warming and you [can] measure that with thermometers. And unless somebody's going to repeal the law of thermal expansion, when oceans warm they get bigger, and when they get bigger they rise against our shores. Off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, scientists have measured 10 inches of sea level rise since a devastating hurricane in 1938, Whitehouse...
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Connecticut Senator Len fasano was a guest speaker at the Greater...
2016-04-08 23:48:52| Furniture - Topix.net
Connecticut Senator Len fasano was a guest speaker at the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce annual Eggs and Issues breakfast at the Ethan Allen Inn in Danbury on Friday April 8, 2016. Connecticut Senator Len fasano was a guest speaker at the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce annual Eggs and Issues breakfast at the Ethan Allen Inn in Danbury on Friday April 8, 2016.
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State Senator Asks Washington Attorney General to Investigate Exxon Mobil
2016-03-28 19:44:23| Chemicals - Topix.net
State Sen. Marko Liias wants Washington's attorney general to investigate Exxon Mobil, like New York and California's attorneys generals are doing right now. Last year, not long after the Los Angeles Times published a blockbuster investigation on what Exxon Mobil may have known about climate change as far back as the 1980s , a coalition of environmental groups wrote to Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and asked him to investigate Exxon "under all applicable state laws."
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Democratic senator blocks Obama's pick to head FDA
2016-01-25 23:04:08| Biotech - Topix.net
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey says in a statement that he's put a hold on Dr. Robert Califf's nomination. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says deaths linked to misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers climbed to 19,000 last year, the highest on record.
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