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Bringing Republicans to the climate change table
2015-10-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The climate has been changing forever. It will continue to change. Some scientists believe that humans have a direct impact on it. But trying to curb carbon emissions to slow the change could destroy the economy, eliminate millions of jobs and cast Americans into poverty. Stories from Our Advertisers This is whats known today as the moderate Republican position on climate change, held by presidential hopefuls like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie. Then there are Republicans like James...
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11 House Republicans: Man-Made Climate Change Is Real and Let's Start Addressing It
2015-09-18 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Eleven House Republicans signed on to a resolution Thursday that recognizes humans have a role in causing climate change. The resolution also endorses steps to combat global warming, though it stops well short of calling for specific solutions. Led by Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.), the lawmakers want the House to go on record to generally agree with the overwhelming consensus of scientists that human activity, through greenhouse gases, is warming the globe. The resolution frames climate change...
How Republicans Made Climate Change America's Most Divisive Political Issue
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: "Human kind ...cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton It's been over a year since polling data found that climate change has emerged as America's most polarizing political issue. The survey, conducted by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, found that the divisiveness characterizing the climate debate is so strong it has eclipsed such longstanding hot-button issues as gun control, evolution, the death penalty and even abortion. And with President Obama recently...
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Democrats and Republicans are both in bed with Monsanto
2015-09-14 08:08:13| Chemicals - Topix.net
In the 1990s, during the administration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, agribusiness giant and GMO king Monsanto had good friends in the White House. As noted in the September 2015 issue of Harper's Magazine , the love shown to Monsanto by the Clinton Administration was consistent with the White House's corporate-friendly approach to issues concerning the environment.
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Arizona Republicans, real estate industry hail temporary stop to Obama, EPA water rule
2015-08-29 08:28:59| Real Estate - Topix.net
A federal judge in North Dakota has temporarily blocked new Obama administration plans to increase regulation and Clean Water Act to seasonal streams and washes in states likes Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
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