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Why A Texas City May Ban Fracking
2014-07-13 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Denton, Texas, is considering a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and a new study links this process of energy extraction with earthquakes. NPR's Arun Rath considers the risks with science writer Abrahm Lustgarten.
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North Carolina's Outer Banks 'ban' rising seas
2014-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sky News: Politicians in the United States have been accused of trying to make rising sea levels illegal. When scientists in North Carolina predicted global warming will cause a rise of at least a metre by the end of the century in the seas off the Outer Banks it caused uproar among businesses and property owners. The Banks are a 200-mile (320-km) long, narrow and very low-lying spit of land stretching into the Atlantic Ocean. They are hugely popular with holidaymakers and hugely vulnerable to global warming....
NY High Court's Local Ban Decision is No Basis Greenlighting Fracking
2014-07-12 03:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: When the New York State Court of Appeals ruled last week that municipalities have the right to use their zoning codes to ban fracking, my reaction was one of intense relief and celebration. But I immediately became concerned that the pro-fracking elements would try to salvage something from their defeat by claiming that the decision somehow provided a justification for Governor Cuomo to greenlight fracking in the state. A column over the weekend by Fred LeBrun in the Albany Times Union made pretty...
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RUSSIA: Brewers get ad ban reprieve - report
2014-07-11 17:13:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Russia has temporarily lifted a ban on beer ads, allowing brewers to campaign around sports events until the end of 2018, according to local media.
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Will Germany Ban Fracking?
2014-07-08 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: German Ministers laid out plans to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas on Friday, although anti-fracking campaigners believe plans for the new law should go much further. In a press briefing, the Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks announced that the government will begin drawing up legislation on the issue and have it approved in the final half of this year, with a review taking place in 2021, saying: There wont be fracking of shale-gas and...
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