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The nation's capital wasn't the only place climate-change protesters challenged business as usual
2013-02-19 15:20:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In addition to the tens of thousands of protesters who showed up in Washington, D.C., Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to reject a permit for TransCanada to build the northern leg of its Keystone XL pipeline and generally call for action on climate change, there were smaller protests across the country.
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For U.S. and China, Worlds Biggest Climate Polluters, Its Still Business as Usual
2013-02-04 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: China and the United States, the world's two largest economies, are responsible for emitting nearly half the planet's carbon dioxide emissions. China overtook the United States in 2006 as the world's biggest CO2 polluter due to its hardening coal addiction. Per capita, however, America's carbon footprint is far bigger. Both countries still have large fleets of coal plants and growing, but relatively tiny, renewable electricity sectors. Both have goals for lowering their global warming emissions--though...
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New cast of lawmakers to fight over usual agenda
2013-01-06 18:55:05| Electronics - Topix.net
A new cast of lawmakers will gather in Austin this week for the 83rd Texas Legislature, but they bring with them a familiar agenda that includes taxes, education, health care, abortion and even groping.