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NFU Outlines Priorities as Deadline Looms for Farm Bill
2013-08-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson sent a letter on 8 August to leadership of the US Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Agriculture, emphasizing the importance of signing a five-year, comprehensive farm bill into law prior to the 30 September expiration of the current law.
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Fears of quakes and flammable tap water hit Britain as fracking looms
2013-08-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The fear of fracking has come to Britain, replete with worries about potential earthquakes and tap water tainted with natural gas that bursts into flames at the strike of a match.. Since a ban on the method of extracting natural gas was lifted in May, a company has begun exploratory drilling in the southern town of Balcombe to see what reserves may lie locked up in rock strata far beneath its rolling hills and green meadows. Read more: 'Fracking' protesters say drilling jobs not worth environmental...
Battle looms over expanding Houston coal exports
2013-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: The expansion of a terminal along the heavily industrialized Houston Ship Channel normally receives little attention. But Kinder Morgan Energy Partners plans to refurbish two docks have opened a new front in the fight over coal. Environmentalists are mounting a campaign to stop the projects and a dozen other proposed shipping terminals along the Gulf Coast because the docks, if built to capacity, could export as much as 200 million tons of coal per year from Appalachia and the Rockies to Asia and...
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Rudd Erases Labor Support Gap as Australia Election Looms
2013-07-28 00:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who must call an election this year, has erased his ruling Labor partys popularity deficit with voters since returning as leader, according to a national poll. Labor and the Tony Abbott-led Liberal-National opposition are split 50-50 on a two-party preferred basis, according to a Galaxy poll published in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper yesterday. That compares with a two-point deficit four weeks ago and a 10-point gap on June 11-13, before Rudd successfully challenged...
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Do or die? Windows RT decision looms for new Microsoft leadership
2013-07-18 14:57:53| InfoWorld: Top News
While the Microsoft marketing band plays on in spite of Windows RT's epic fail, Microsoft's new Operating Systems group, led by longtime Microsoft Exchange honcho Terry Myerson, faces an impossible juggling act.
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