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United Kingdom: Decarbonisation target narrowly defeated in House of Lords vote
2013-10-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government avoided a House of Lords rebellion last night as peers voted by 216 to 202 to defeat an amendment to the Energy Bill that would have required it to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector next year. Green businesses and campaigners had hoped that the amendment, put forward by cross-bench peers Lord Stern and Lord Oxburgh and Labour shadow climate minister Baroness Worthington, could pass with a relatively small rebellion from the government benches. But despite...
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U.S. Steel workers in Canada narrowly OK contract offer
2013-08-31 23:21:34| Steel - Topix.net
Locked-out workers at the United States Steel Corp. plant near Nanticoke, Ontario, have narrowly voted to approve the company's latest contract offer.
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Canada's economy grew narrowly in May: StatsCan
2013-08-02 20:38:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Canadas real gross domestic product increased 0.2 per cent in May the fifth consecutive month of growth for the economy but slightly below analyst expectations.
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House narrowly rejects bid to curb NSA domestic surveillance
2013-07-25 01:28:02| CNET News.com
Politicians fail to block National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program that vacuums up Americans' phone call metadata. But privacy advocates say they're encouraged. [Read more]
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House Narrowly Passes Farm Bill minus Nutrition Title
2013-07-15 21:31:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC The House of Representatives narrowly passed the 2013 five-year farm bill that excluded the nutrition title. This action abandoned four decades of farm bill precedent of combining farm and nutrition programs, established in 1973. As a result, the bill passed on a vote of 216-208 with 12 Republicans and all 196 Democrats voting against the bill. The bill also repeals permanent law (1949 and 1938 agricultural acts) and replaces it with the 2013 bill. This is a major concern to a number of agricultural groups because permanent law is the mechanism that has forced Congress in the past to pass a new farm bill and not revert back to the 1949 act. read more