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9/24/15 State of Housing Report & Policy Initiatives to Address Housing Crisis
2015-09-25 02:19:14| PortlandOnline
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Tow Policy Workgroup Report
2015-06-25 22:30:28| PortlandOnline
Word Document, 2,887kbCategory: Published Reports
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Citywide Tree Policy Report Appendices
2015-02-13 00:12:34| PortlandOnline
Part 2 of the Citywide Tree Policy Report includes PSC testimony, project newsletters, issue papers, fiscal impact analysis. PDF Document, 26,051kbCategory: Citywide Tree Project Adopted Code and Reports
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Report: Obama's ethanol policy has ravaged the environment
2013-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: When President Barack Obama gave a major policy speech on reducing greenhouse gases last June, he didn't once mention ethanol, an alcohol-based fuel distilled from fermented corn. Biofuels in general which are extracted from plant or animal matter received a brief, passing reference. But when the Iowa political caucuses were on the horizon in 2007, thenpresidential candidate Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. And when former President George W. Bush...
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IPCC report: Effective policy action needed to arrest climate change
2013-10-07 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The latest report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has marshalled a mass of data, trends and analyses that unequivocally suggest warming of the climate system, albeit in the teeny decimal points of 0.85° C when globally averaged for the period 1880 to 2012. Now, in complex systems, small changes can add up to large effects. The Fifth Assessment Report does take note of extreme weather and climate events and global-scale changes in precipitation patterns witnessed in recent years,...
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