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United Kingdom: Ministers playing politics with floods, says Environment Agency chief
2014-02-09 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers are "playing politics" with the flood crisis and "getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job", according to an unprecedented outburst from the embattled boss of the Environment Agency, who blamed the government for limiting the agency's response. Hitting back at the vitriolic criticism that has been aimed at him and his agency for weeks one MP has called him a "git" and threatened to "stick his head down the loo and flush" Lord Smith said the attacks had been unlike...
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Energy a game of D.C.-style power politics in Nevada
2014-02-09 17:26:42| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Reid Gardner is a coal-fired power plant located outside Las Vegas near Moapa. Faced with the good possibility that the Public Utilities Commission would force NV Energy to close Reid Gardner, the utility hatched a scheme to turn its lemon coal plant into legislative lemonade.
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Politics cloud water debate
2014-02-09 06:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: There are two possible policy outcomes to a severe drought like the one California is experiencing now. One is that the drought focuses the minds of political leaders and water users, prompting them to come together to craft a broad, comprehensive solution to a problem that won't be going away. The other is that the community of water users will fragment and turn on one another, with farmers lining up against environmentalists, suburbanites against farmers, and so on. Which way would you...
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Playing politics w/ California drought
2014-02-03 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As California's drought continues, and more than a dozen rural communities ponder what to do when their drinking water runs out sometime in March, it would be nice if the state's Republican politicians brought some straightforward plans for relief to the table. But what many of them are bringing instead is a tired political tactic barely, and laughably, disguised as a remedy for the lack of rainfall. The "man-made California drought" is the term House Republicans use to describe the state's current...
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Politics, legacy loom over Obama decision on Keystone XL pipeline
2014-01-27 05:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama will lay out an agenda on jobs, the economy and the environment during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. But he is unlikely to mention the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a politically charged project that could shape his legacy in each area. Some five years after Keystone XL was proposed, Canadian officials, Republicans and some Democrats in conservative U.S. states are expressing frustration over the lack of a decision by the White House on the initiative. The TransCanada...
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