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Republicans and Democrats agree on at least one thing: Wildfires are a major threat
2016-05-30 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is teaming up to do away with preordained spending caps on emergency fire recovery efforts as the American West braces for another wildfire season. Drier conditions, likely driven by climate change, have turned vast swaths of the continent into veritable tinderboxes; last summer, for example, five million acres of Alaska and 1.7 million acres across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho burned. We need to call mega-fires what they are -- disasters," said Sen. Mike...
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Republicans are warming up to renewable energy
2016-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A wind farm in Marshalltown, Iowa. For decades, alternative energy was the province of activists. It was far more expensive than fossil fuels, and many remained unconvinced of humanitys role in the globes rising temperature. When world leaders gather in New York on Friday to sign the Paris climate accord, they will do so against a changing backdrop. As the cost of wind and solar power has plummeted, the solid consensus against alternative energy in the U.S. Republican Party has begun to crack....
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Senate Republicans Want To Cut Funding For UN Climate Change Agency, Because Palestine
2016-04-20 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: More than two dozen Republican senators this week asked Secretary of State John Kerry not to provide any funding for the United States' involvement in the United Nations effort to address climate change, saying they object to the U.N. treating Palestine as a state. The Palestinians joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international treaty that governs action on climate change, in March. On Monday, the group of 28 senators, led by Wyoming Republican John Barrasso,...
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Drew Clark: Utah Republicans continue to provide a responsible example to the nation
2016-04-17 11:35:35| Apparel - Topix.net
Can the anger-filled movement inspired by the Boston revolt eventually mature into a Philadelphia vision of constructive constitutionalism? It must. Utah is the most Republican state in the nation, based on quadrennial presidential election voting.
Buchanan County Republicans put faith in Trump
2016-04-04 08:56:21| IT Services - Topix.net
Retired coal miner Fred McCracken was raised in a Democratic household, but he doesn't think the country is ready for a female president and longs for a candidate like "ol' big ears Ross Perot."
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