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Republicans Put Repeal of Prevailing Wages on Front Burner
2015-06-03 22:05:18| ENR.com: Headline News
Repeal of prevailing wages in Indiana and efforts in other states put union contractor control of state-funded projects in jeopardy.
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FCC's Internet-for-the-poor plan sets up fight with Republicans
2015-05-30 11:36:12| Telecom - Topix.net
President Obama announces the nomination of Rep. Melvin Watt, left, as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Tom Wheeler, right, as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , on May 1, 2013. A plan to bring a phone subsidy program for poor people into the broadband age is setting up a battle between Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Republicans in Congress.
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House Republicans scrap climate change preparedness proposal
2015-05-16 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: House Republicans on Friday nixed legislation by a Dallas Democrat that would have asked certain agencies to take weather, water availability and climate change into account in their strategic plans. The bill had bipartisan support in committee, but at the start of the vote Rep. Ron Simmons, R-Carollton, alerted members that the House GOP caucus opposed the measure. That vote failed 47-84, mostly along party lines. In an interview Friday after the vote, Simmons said the caucus wants to make...
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Republicans may weaken more North Carolina environmental rules
2015-05-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Citizen Times: A 44-year-old requirement that North Carolina study potential environmental impacts before launching building projects and another mandate that utilities rely more on alternative energy sources stand to weaken if trends in the General Assembly continue. The House on April 30 passed a bill limiting the environmental study requirement to apply only to projects costing more than $10 million. Then on Wednesday, the state representatives set aside for now a 2007 mandate that electric utilities keep...
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Republicans Can Only Deny Human's Influence On Climate Change For So Long
2015-05-10 07:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: The party of "no" has been extra vocal on the subject of climate change lately. They`ve budged only slightly in the past few years, going from stubbornly refusing to admit that climate change exists to begrudgingly admitting that it does, but that humans play no part in it. But progress is progress. Some Senate Republicans are now officially on the record as refusing the idea that humans are causing climate change after a measure that was rejected 50-49 along party lines. "Only in the halls...
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