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Australia carbon tax moves closer to repeal after vote in lower house
2014-06-26 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The effort to repeal Australia's controversial carbon tax, which has drawn former U.S. Vice President Al Gore into its increasingly odd orbit, moved one step closer to success on Thursday as the lower house of parliament voted to scrap it. The late-night vote on the last day before lawmakers head out on holiday was the latest hurdle for the legislation to clear as it heads towards full repeal when the new senate is sworn in next week. Conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott, once a climate-change...
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House Appropriations Committee Approves National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Funding
2014-06-26 11:07:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: AASV The House Appropriations Committee recently sent a bill to the full House that would provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) additional funding for the construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), Content Classification: Curated read more
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VIDEO: The North-South divide in house prices
2014-06-26 08:46:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Breakfast's Adam Parsons and Steph McGovern report on the divide in property prices between the north and south of the UK
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White House climate report sidesteps Keystone question
2014-06-25 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: No mention of Keystone XL. Not a word about oil sands from Canada. Exactly a year after President Barack Obamas dire warning that global warming would condemn ... future generations to a planet thats beyond fixing unless greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were cut drastically, the White House issued a progress report. It didnt even mention the controversial plan to funnel carbon-heavy Alberta oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries a plan which has dominated the climate-change...
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White House pushes climate change solutions this week
2014-06-24 07:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: White House officials are spending this week highlighting the public health and economic consequences of climate change on the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's speech to combat address the problem. On Sunday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz joined several mayors in Dallas where they signed a climate protection agreement pledging to take action to reduce carbon pollution and prepare their communities. The White House...
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