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Republicans hit Landrieu over climate change talk-a-thon
2014-03-11 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Nearly 30 senators staged an overnight debate on the Senate floor Monday night through Tuesday morning, trying to bring attention to what they say is a dire need to combat climate change with legislative action. But Sen. Mary Landrieu, the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, was noticeably absent from the demonstration. The vulnerable Democrat faces re-election this fall in Louisiana, a state with large swaths of conservative voters. The National Republican Senatorial...
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Republicans use Putin as an excuse to push fossil-fuel projects
2014-03-06 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The hallmark of a Republican policy proposal is that it can be adapted to virtually any circumstance. Just as George W. Bush advanced tax cuts as the appropriate response to both budget surplus and deficit, congressional Republicans believe that fossil fuel promotion is the appropriate response to, well, everything. And so they have looked at the vexing problem of Russias invasion of Ukraines Crimea region and come up with a carefully calibrated answer: Drill, baby, drill! First, Sen. Lisa...
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Republicans protest FCC's Net neutrality move, ISPs less concerned
2014-02-20 13:21:27| InfoWorld: Top News
Some Republican policymakers objected to a new U.S. Federal Communications Commission plan to reinstate its Net neutrality rules after a court threw them out, but broadband providers appeared to be less concerned.
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House Republicans back away from debt-limit fight
2014-02-12 06:57:29| Chemicals - Topix.net
The average price of gasoline in Delaware was $3.36 on Tuesday, up 3 cents overnight, and up 4 cents in the last week, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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Republicans vote to deny climate change
2014-01-30 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The House Energy and Commerce Committee wasted a good chunk of time Tuesday on yet more anti-environmental legislation that doesn`t stand a snowflake`s chance in climate-changed hell of become law. H.R. 3826, The Electricity Security and Affordability Act, would suspend the EPA`s proposed climate rules for power plants. And for bonus points, the committee threw out an amendment to the doomed bill that would have acknowledged that climate change is real. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), presumably...
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