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Obama seeks oil-funded research to tackle climate change
2013-02-13 04:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama said Tuesday that extreme weather shows the need to fight climate change, calling for oil-funded technology research to "shift our cars and trucks off oil" and for a doubling of energy efficiency in 20 years. "For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change," Obama said in his fifth State of the Union Address before Congress. "No single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves,...
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Obama to Congress: Act on climate change or I will
2013-02-13 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is telling Congress that he will take action to combat climate change if lawmakers don't do it themselves. In his State of the Union address Tuesday, the president said Congress should write legislation that would give polluters market-based incentives to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming. He said if lawmakers don't do that, his administration will craft executive actions that would cut pollution, help get communities ready for the effects of climate change...
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Obama to go big on climate change tonight?
2013-02-12 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: It`s widely understood that the prospects for getting any kind of significant climate change legislation through Congress remain bleak, as long as the Tea Partyers and chronic reality deniers retain their grip on the House of Representatives. But there are several big steps that President Obama can take in his State of the Union speech tonight that could matter a great deal. My expectation is that he will take them. First, environmental advocates are hoping that Obama will forcefully declare that...
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Miss. woman joins Michelle Obama for speech
2013-02-12 21:22:26| Food - Topix.net
Amanda E. McMillan, who lives in Pearl, Miss., sued her employer - Forrest City Grocery in Shaw, Miss.
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Miss. woman joins Michelle Obama for speech
2013-02-12 20:57:33| Grocery - Topix.net
Amanda E. McMillan, who lives in Pearl, Miss., sued her employer - Forrest City Grocery in Shaw, Miss.
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