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Obama State of the Union could ramp up climate fight with Republicans
2015-01-19 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Despite the new Republican majority and the oil industry gunning for the presidents agenda on emissions cuts and the Keystone XL pipeline, Barack Obama will show hes no lame duck on climate change, White House officials insisted ahead of his second-to-last State of the Union Address. After using his executive authority over the last 18 months to propose new carbon pollution rules for power plants, an historic emissions deal with China and just last week the roll-out of measures aimed at...
Congressional Republicans unveil net neutrality bill to sidestep FCC
2015-01-17 11:30:53| Telecom - Topix.net
Activists gather outside the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington on Dec. 11 to urge tough net neutrality regulations. Activists gather outside the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington on Dec. 11 to urge tough net neutrality regulations.
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Republicans, court ship oil pipeline decision back to Obama
2015-01-10 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Congressional Republicans and Nebraska's Supreme Court have shipped the Keystone XL oil pipeline project right back to a reluctant President Barack Obama. Obama is so loath to make the call that deliberations have entered their sixth year, nearly as long as he has held office. He has blamed the delays on bureaucratic formalities and parochial issues in Nebraska, even when skeptics claimed that the politics of Obama's re-election race in 2012 were a more accurate explanation. That campaign...
Senate Republicans to try to force construction of Keystone pipeline
2015-01-06 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Republicans will introduce a bill on Tuesday to force construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, setting the new Congress on a collision course with the White House over Barack Obamas environmental agenda. The Keystone XL bill aims to take the decision about the controversial pipeline out of the presidents hands. It is seen as the first shot in an all-out Republican offensive against the Democratic presidents environmental and health agenda. The bill is expected to pass but it faces a potential...
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Congress will soon approve Keystone, say Republicans
2015-01-05 17:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The new Republican Senate leadership seems to be holding true to its word: Approval for the Keystone XL pipeline will top the 2015 legislative agenda. The head of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), plans to hold a hearing on the pipeline on Wednesday and introduce a bill to approve it on Thursday. A pro-Keystone bill came one vote short of passing in the Senate in November - and that was back when Democrats were still in control. This time, Republicans...
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