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Anti-Fracking Groups Greet Obama On New York Tour
2013-08-23 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Anti-fracking activists confronted President Barack Obama as he toured upstate New York on Friday. Organizers reported that more than 500 protesters showed up to Obama's town hall event at Binghamton University, where the president was speaking on education. "I think the key message we wanted to get across through the whole tour was that New Yorkers don't want this," said Alex Beauchamp, Northeast regional director at the environmental group Food and Water Watch, which coordinated the protests...
UPS Will End Coverage for 15,000 Working Spouses, Citing Obama Health Law
2013-08-22 00:01:04| Trucking - Topix.net
United Parcel Service Inc. , one of the biggest U.S. employers, plans to drop health insurance coverage for about 15,000 working spouses of white-collar employees to curtail rising costs.
UPS Will End Coverage for 15,000 Working Spouses, Citing Obama Health Law
2013-08-21 22:02:18| Air Courier - Topix.net
United Parcel Service Inc. , one of the biggest U.S. employers, plans to drop health insurance coverage for about 15,000 working spouses of white-collar employees to curtail rising costs.
Foes of Obama climate policy prepare battle over cost of carbon
2013-08-21 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three months ago, the Obama administration made a little-noticed but potentially pivotal move in the stepped-up fight against climate change: it boosted the U.S. government's official estimate of the future economic damage caused by carbon pollution. After its first review, a panel of technical experts from 11 government agencies raised the so-called "social cost of carbon," known as SCC. The measure is used by many arms of the U.S. government to determine the financial benefits of new regulations...
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Cuomo won't join Obama at fracking hotbed sites
2013-08-20 15:38:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Andrew Cuomo will avoid a potentially dicey political conflict by not accompanying President Barack Obama to parts of upstate New York roiled over the state's ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. Obama supports the technology as an economic windfall that helps make the country more energy independent. He's expected to find supporters as well as protesters from environmental groups when he visits Syracuse and Binghamton late this week. Parts of central New York and the Southern Tier...
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