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Lib Dems vow tax-free allowance rise
2014-08-14 09:07:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A rise in the tax-free personal allowance to 12,500 during the next Parliament is proposed by the Liberal Democrats.
Activists Vow to Fight Oil Pipeline That Would Cross Iowa
2014-07-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Environmental activists vowed Thursday to fight plans for a proposed 1,100-mile crude oil pipeline that would slice diagonally through the heart of Iowa, but the state's politicians are withholding judgment for now. Former state legislator Ed Fallon of Des Moines, who is leading about 40 people on a transcontinental march across the United States to bring attention to climate change, said he will emphatically oppose plans for the proposed Bakken pipeline, which would cut across 17 counties from...
In Las Vegas, Climate Change Deniers Regroup, Vow to Keep Doubt Alive
2014-07-10 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Earlier this week, the Heartland Institute convened its Ninth International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas. A nonprofit, free-market think tank in Chicago with a $6 million annual budget, Heartland has been hosting conferences since 2008 for those dubious of the science confirming human-caused climate change. It is called the ICCC for short, the acronym an intentional echo of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body that has published the most comprehensive...
First Nations Vow: There Will Be No Tar Sands Pipeline
2014-06-13 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: "We have drawn a line in the earth they cannot, and will not, cross," said Chief Martin Louie of the Nadleh Whuten First Nation. There will be no tar sands pipeline. That is the message stressed by First Nations communities who say that even if Canada's Prime Minister Harper gives the federal OK to Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, First Nations law and their "responsibilities to future generations" will stop the project dead in its tracks. A federal decision on the project, which includes...
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Riverbend landfill opponents vow to keep fighting after LUBA defeat
2014-05-29 01:55:48| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals on May 27 dismissed an appeal filed by the Stop the Dump Coalition, which hoped to prevent expansion of the Riverbend Landfill outside McMinnville.
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