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'No' campaigners urge CBI EU rethink
2015-11-09 01:01:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A group campaigning for the UK to leave the EU urges the incoming leader of the CBI to rethink the business lobby group's stance on the union.
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Prodded by Climate Campaigners and Aided by Cheap Oil, Obama Kills Keystone
2015-11-06 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Congratulations are due to Bill McKibben, Jim Hansen and the tens of thousands of other climate campaigners who turned an obscure cross-border pipeline proposal into an effective national political campaign. After years of deliberations, President Obama today said the Keystone XL project was not in the national interest: In 2011, I split with McKibben and others as they were being arrested at the White House. I argued that the pipeline issue was a distraction from the core issues involving our...
United Kingdom: Productivity plan is death knell for zero-carbon homes, say campaigners
2015-07-10 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The governments sweeping review of how to improve productivity across a range of areas, including planning and higher education, has been criticised by campaigners as the death knell for zero-carbon homes. Energy conservationists are angry at announcements in the productivity paper released on Friday, which drops plans for higher on-site energy efficiency, as well as a separate target for zero-carbon emissions for non-domestic buildings by 2019. The productivity paper is the product of two...
Fracking: campaigners urge Lancashire council to approve Cuadrilla plans
2015-06-22 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Rejecting plans for test fracking in Lancashire would send a message that the county was not open for business and investment, a coalition of local businesses, academics, farmers and students has warned. Members of the North West Energy Task Force said it would be a missed opportunity to create jobs and significantly boost the local economy. The campaign group spoke out on the eve of the beginning of the decision-making process on proposals by shale company Cuadrilla for two sites between Preston...
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Office waste costs UK business 15bn, campaigners say
2015-06-01 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Campaigners are taking a giant rubbish bin to the streets of London today to highlight how much waste is generated in offices around the UK in a single day. Envirowise, a government-funded group that advises business on sustainability, said bad waste practices are costing UK industry at least 15bn each year. Today's One Bin Day campaign marks an effort to illustrate the problem and to prompt office works to rethink the way they use materials and handle waste. The group is parading a giant,...
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