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Transit Advocates To MTA: Use Extra State Funding To Restore Service
2013-04-22 00:13:12| Railroads - Topix.net
Transit advocates joined elected officials and a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board Sunday, demanding that the agency use a budget surplus to restore and increase service.
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CPC Advocates in Washington for COOL Compliance
2013-04-11 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - CPC’s Chair, Jean-Guy Vincent and Executive Director, Martin Rice joined Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Gerry Ritz in Washington earlier this week to advocate on behalf of the Canadian livestock industry for the US to come into compliance with its World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations regarding Country of Origin Labelling (COOL).
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Democratic climate advocates huddle with White House aides
2013-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: Two Capitol Hill Democrats seeking more aggressive steps to confront global warming huddled earlier this week with a pair of top White House aides. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told reporters Friday that he and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) met a couple of days ago with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors and Heather Zichal, a top energy and climate adviser to President Obama. We had a very good and wide-ranging discussion, Whitehouse told reporters in the Capitol. Whitehouse...
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Advocates want gates to protect mine site from illegal dumping
2013-03-08 12:37:52| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Paul Golias / For The Citizens' Voice Trash clutters the area near the Avondale mine site in Plymouth Township, looking toward the memorial.
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Celebrity 'fractivists': True advocates or NIMBYs?
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The scene: a Manhattan art-house theater. The cause: a campaign against the gas drilling process known as fracking that's being led by more than 100 celebrities, including Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo and Mario Batali. Outside, demonstrators in hazmat suits circle the theater. Inside, actress Scarlett Johansson attends a benefit screening of "Gasland," the documentary film that has become the movement's manifesto. Johansson tells The Associated Press that her "Avengers"...
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