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Politics & the pipeline: Plains bedfellows
2014-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Pipelines break. They dont break often, but when they do, the result can be catastrophic. Thats what worries John Harter, a rancher who grew up in this rural, poor and conservative area of southern South Dakota. Harter, 51, still lives here, and owns land that the Keystone XL pipeline would cross if its ever approved. Harter points to the 2010 spill of 860,000 gallons of tar sand oil from a pipeline crossing the Kalamazoo River in Michigan when people ask what hes fighting against. Enbridge,...
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Politics of 'climate': How opposite ideologies are pushing clean energy
2014-10-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WFSU: Environmentalists are attacking Gov. Rick Scotts inaction on climate change at the same time a liberal-leaning superPAC is running climate-based ads against the Republican incumbent. But progressive groups dont have a monopoly on environmental issues. A conservative organization taking root in Florida aims to promote green issues while keeping the executive branch red. More than 92,000 thousand people recently signed petitions asking Republican Scott to lead the fight against climate change....
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Pragmatism on Climate Change Trumps Politics at Local Level Across U.S
2014-10-24 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As she planned her run for the Florida House of Representatives this year, Kristin Jacobs told her team that she wanted her campaign to address the effects of climate change. Her advisers were initially skeptical, noting that voters typically said they cared about the environment, but considered the issue less urgent than the economy and health care. Ms. Jacobs, a commissioner for Broward County, pressed her case, arguing that few issues were more critical to residents of southeast Florida than...
Politics, Power & Greed Driving The Checkoff Controversy
2014-10-23 18:14:00| Beef
The great irony in the current controversy involving the beef checkoff is that there are real and substantive issues with the program. As always, governments response to excessive regulation and oversight is to take more control and usurp more power from constituents. My View From The Country read more
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Sugar politics & its bitter underside
2014-10-15 08:13:00| Sugar Industry News
Satara, Oct. 13: In western Maharashtra\'s sugar belt, the BJP is striving to build a base from scratch through defections while the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are slogging to retain their turfs.
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