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Our Voice: Climate change challenge
2013-04-21 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: magine Joshua Tree National Park without Joshua trees. Researchers have documented that the habitat for Joshua trees is shrinking. Cameron Barrows, an associate research ecologist with the UCR Center for Conservation Biology in Palm Desert, found Joshua trees havent produced young trees in 30 percent of their southern distribution for decades. Climate models suggest the range of Joshua trees could shrink 90 percent by the end of the century. It might not be because of climate change alone....
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Supreme Court asked to hear EPA greenhouse gas challenge
2013-04-20 03:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Top industry groups and a dozen states have asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding the Obama administration's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions generated by power plants and vehicles. The parties, which had until Friday to submit petitions to the high court, are challenging a 2012 decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The petitioners attacked the rules on various grounds, but all...
Iowa settles challenge to corporate farming law
2013-04-20 00:49:06| Food - Topix.net
A Texas hog farm that sued Iowa over an often-challenged law that prohibits meat processors from owning livestock has agreed to guarantee certain rights to local farmers in exchange for the state not enforcing the law, the attorney general said Friday.
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UK in legal challenge to FTT tax
2013-04-19 23:34:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK government launches a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice against plans for a European financial transactions tax (FTT).
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Keystone Pipeline Challenge Rejected by Top Texas Court
2013-04-19 15:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: TransCanada Corp. (TRP)s power to condemn land as a common carrier wont be reviewed by the Texas Supreme Court in one of four state-court challenges against the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry Canadian tar-sands oil to the Texas coast. The Texas Supreme Court today refused to hear a challenge by Rhinoceros Ventures Group Inc., whose property lies near the industry refinery hub at Beaumont, Texas. The court denied the petition without comment. The landowners had urged the court to use...
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