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Pennsylvania Dems squabble over fracking - and guess who's for it?
2016-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In the battle for Pennsylvania's competitive Senate seat this fall, candidates have spent recent weeks squabbling about the future of hydraulic fracturing in the state as well as taking aim at each other over campaign contributions tied to the energy industry. But this isn't a fight between Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and his challenger; it's just the Democratic primary taking shape. A trio of Democrats are vying in an April 26 primary for the right to take on Toomey in the Keystone State: former...
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Dems push GOP get on board with climate talks
2015-11-20 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: House Democrats showed their enthusiasm for the upcoming Paris climate talks on Thursday, and condemned Republicans who are wary of the landmark summit. At a forum hosted by House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats, along with members of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), lawmakers heard from foreign governments on the climate challenges their countries are facing and their expectations for the United Nations talks in December. Its a very frustrating time...
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Dems, greens decry 'backdoor' bid to 'tilt' litigation
2015-11-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The nonpartisan Office of the Law Revision Counsel tends to toil in obscurity, but it has been thrust into the spotlight as its work has become central to a political spat surrounding the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The office's small staff works out of the Ford House Office Building in Washington, D.C. The independent shop is charged with poring over and cleaning up existing laws through a process that includes recommending changes like correcting misspellings and clarifying ambiguities....
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'Cleaning the Barn': Dems Pay Price for Budget and Debt Ceiling Deal: 'BradCast' 10/27/2015
2015-10-28 21:28:50| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Financial journalist David Dayen explains it all for you. PLUS: 2016 shakeups; Dog shoots owner; 'Black Friday' news; D.C. excrement... GOP Senator breaks ranks to support Obama's Clean Power Plan; Indonesia's killer air pollution; D.C. gets creative w/ excrement; PLUS: Inhofe's plan to derail climate treaty... Brendan Fischer of the Center for Media and Democracy on how three new election 'reform' bills being rammed through by Walker and the GOP threaten the state and the nation ... Some doors open, others slam shut in this week's collection of last week's best toons, as curated by 'PDiddie'... Lots of news at week's end, including another record hurricane and another GOP Sec. of State found guilty of election fraud crimes... More calls to probe ExxonMobil; End of Canada's dirty tar sands?; 3 out of 4 in U.S. accept climate science; Sunscreen damaging coral reefs; PLUS: Sep. 2015 ... (more)
New Mexico Dems call for tough new methane rule
2015-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Four New Mexico Democrats are encouraging the Obama administration to release a strong rule regulating methane emissions at oil and gas drilling sites. We recognize that oil and gas producers have an economic incentive to minimize methane losses and the industry is improving its practices, the Democrats led by Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich wrote in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). However, federal action is necessary to ensure that steps to limit methane releases...
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