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Rhetoric on EPA, climate show divisions Republican presidential hopefuls
2015-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: One likely Republican presidential candidate called the Environmental Protection Agency locusts while another compared climate change to a sunburn, exposing a contrast with several other likely contenders within the party who recently acknowledged the role of human activity in climate change. National Republicans almost universally have opposed President Barack Obama's plan for addressing climate change and how he has used the EPA to achieve those goals, but Senate votes the week of Jan. 19...
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What Are Republican Going to Do Climate Change?
2015-01-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: When it comes to energy and climate politics, things are heating up on the Senate floor. Debate over amendments to the Senate bill approving the Keystone XL pipeline forced Republicans to put their views on climate change on the record Wednesday, and those votes could have reverberations in this congress and the 2016 presidential race. Other amendments from boosting offshore drilling to expediting permitting signal the broader energy issues that pique the interest of the new Senate. In...
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Say What? Republican live stream cuts Obama's remarks climate denial
2015-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Republicans cut Barack Obamas most forceful comments on climate change his mockery of climate denial from the partys official live stream of his State of the Union address. A purported Republican fact-check of Obamas address, prepared by staffers for the House speaker, John Boehner, clumsily cuts the president off mid-sentence just as he was about to wreck the Republicans new default line for talking about climate change: I am not a scientist. The Republican party leadership has adopted...
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Republican bill: Net neutrality protections without reclassifying broadband
2015-01-14 21:45:31| Telecom - Topix.net
Top Republicans in Congress plan to introduce legislation that they say will ensure net neutrality protections for Internet users and will spur U.S. economic growth. The proposal would create "unambiguous" rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or throttling Web traffic, while avoiding a reclassification of broadband as a regulated public utility, said a Wednesday blog post at Reuters.com by Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, and Representative Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican.
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Gov. Inslee of Washington unveils carbon cap, predicts Republican support
2014-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Despite a divided state Legislature coming out of the 2014 midterm elections, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) says 2015 is the year for his state to get serious about climate change. "Everyone agrees on the basic proposition" that the climate is changing and that the state needs to act on it, he said yesterday, speaking at REI's main outlet in Seattle. "We don't all agree on what the first steps should be. But I'm open to all ideas." Inslee laid out his plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions...
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