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Najarian on MTA seat: 'My future in local politics, really, could come down to this'
2013-02-18 20:27:23| Railroads - Topix.net
The transportation future of this region rests, in no small measure, with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority .
The politics of emissions: Keystone is an easier target than U.S. coal-fired power plants
2013-02-18 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Canada's oil sands are one of the most carbon-intensive sources of crude in the world, and for American climate activists, the Keystone XL pipeline represents a "line in the sand" on climate policy. But greenhouse gas produced by the oil sands is a fraction of the amount spewed by U.S. coal-fired power plants. In 2010, the oil sands produced 48 million tons of carbon-dioxide emissions. Coal-fired power plants in the state of Wisconsin alone produced 43 million tons. No wonder Canadian politicians...
VIDEO: The politics of the EU red carpet
2013-02-08 09:31:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson explains how European Union leaders know exactly which microphone to find when they arrive on the red carpet at summits.
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Australian politics cools off on climate change
2013-02-04 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In 2007, a tyro Australian opposition leader called Kevin Rudd held a summit in which he labelled climate change the "great moral challenge of our generation" and, rather optimistically, added "we should be at a stage in this country where climate change is beyond politics". Within months, Rudd swept to power in a landmark election that deposed John Howard, the long-term conservative prime minister and climate-change curmudgeon. Australia, one of the world's leading per capita emitters and the...
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Politics of pollution: China's oil giants take a choke-hold on power
2013-02-03 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The search for culprits behind the rancid haze enveloping China's capital has turned a spotlight on the country's two largest oil companies and their resistance to tougher fuel standards. Bureaucratic fighting between the environment ministry on the one hand and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Sinopec Group on the other has thwarted stricter emission standards for diesel trucks and buses -- a main cause of air pollution blanketing dozens of China's cities. To be sure, many sources...
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