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New Fuel-Efficiency Standards for Trucks: A Political Priority, Not a Policy Improvement
2014-02-19 03:57:25| Trucking - Topix.net
President Obama announced a new round of fuel-efficiency rules for trucks today, saying that the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency would work together to find new ways to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
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United Kingdom: Ed Miliband exploiting flooding crisis to score political points, says No 10
2014-02-16 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Ed Miliband has been accused by Downing Street of trying to score "political points' from the flooding crisis after claiming that climate change has become a "national security issue'. In an interview with The Observer, the Labour leader linked flooding to climate change and warned that it has the potential to destroy homes, businesses and livelihoods in Britain. He criticised David Cameron for appearing to backtrack on his commitment to the environmental cause in the face of scepticism within...
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UK floods: political blame game deepens as weather warnings persist
2014-02-09 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With forecasts of at least another week of gales and torrential rain, severe weather warnings and hundreds of flood alerts covering the entire south and south-west coasts of England, and all rail links to the West Country severed for the first time, the flood waters and the political blame game are both deepening. Firefighters, assisted by soldiers from a nearby barracks, were working round the clock to keep the floods away from an electricity substation at Burghfield, near Reading in Berkshire,...
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Nations will face big political question in Lima over climate change
2014-02-09 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: President of the Warsaw climate conference (COP19) and Poland's secretary of state, Marcin Korolec, has said the "nature of contributions" from countries to deal with menace of global warming would be the "main political questions" in Peruvian capital Lima where leaders/negotiators from across the globe assemble for the next marathon meeting in December. In first and only interview to Indian media over outcome of the last climate conference (COP19), Korolec told the TOI that the road to Paris...
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Big carriers go political to kill local broadband
2014-02-07 07:54:18| Telecom - Topix.net
Major telcos are afraid that locally owned FTTH deployments will cut into their fat profits, so they seek to cripple competitors When Time Warner and Embarq couldn't provide affordable, high-speed broadband, the residents of Wilson, a small town in North Carolina, decided to do it themselves.
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