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Can China and the US Stop Climate Change?
2014-05-24 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diplomat: Recent tensions over cyber espionage and the South China Sea have brought out areas of disagreement in U.S.-China relations. And yet, even as the U.S. and China trade barbs over these issues, they are stepping up their cooperation on a problem of global significance: climate change. U.S.-China cooperation on climate change isnt new. Just after his election in 2008, Barack Obama promised that his administration would being a new chapter in American leadership on climate change. And to deal effectively...
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Time for Frances Biggest Bank to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal Coal
2014-05-22 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: The campaign to stop bank financing of mountaintop removal coal mining is gaining momentum. For years, RAN and other organizations in the global BankTrack network have urged U.S. and European banks to stop financing the devastation caused by mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. BankTrack members have worked closely with advocates from Appalachia -- the region hardest hit by MTR -- including Paul Corbit Brown and Elise Keaton from Keeper of the Mountains, and Bob Kincaid from Coal River Mountain...
Gay Eagle Scout asks Amazon.com to stop donations
2014-05-21 23:04:07| IT Services - Topix.net
Geoffrey McGrath, right, a gay Boy Scout troop leader and Eagle Scout from Seattle, who had his membership in the Scouts revoked by the organization earlier this year, holds up the three fingers of the Scout Sign and recites the "Scout Law," as he stands in front of a group of Boy Scouts and scout leaders, Wednesday, May 21, 2014, outside the ... (more)
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Republicans to FCC: Stop mulling Net neutrality reclassification
2014-05-21 13:59:19| InfoWorld: Top News
Republican legislators don't even want the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to think about reclassifying broadband as a utility -- a route the regulator could take in order to reinstate Net neutrality rules. New regulations would hurt broadband deployment, several Republican members of the House of Representatives said.
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Nebraska truck stop renamed to honor driver
2014-05-21 11:53:10| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
An eastern Nebraska truck stop has been renamed to honor a driver who sets a positive example for other truck drivers.
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