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Republican Oddo gets cross-the-aisle boost from Democrats in launching Borough Hall bid
2013-05-12 20:14:13| Railroads - Topix.net
And among the throng were some high-profile Democrats, including former Councilman Jerome O'Donovan and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli.
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How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
2013-05-10 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President Obama`s nominee, Gina McCarthy, as U.S. EPA Administrator. In doing so the Republican senators broke their earlier promise to move McCarthy`s nomination if she answered an unprecedented 1,079 written questions, a quest she completed. Political observers assume the Republican roadblock is meant to derail or delay the implementation of a new EPA rule, promised...
Wanted: Republican leaders on climate change: As I See It
2013-04-28 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Patriot-News: With the tragedy at the Boston Marathon at the forefront of the nightly news, the extreme weather disaster unfolding in the Midwest has received little attention. The Midwest has been on a see-saw ride of extreme drought to extreme flooding recently. Only a few months ago, water levels on the Mississippi were so low that the Army Corps of Engineers was blowing up rocks on the river bottom to allow barge traffic to continue without scraping bottom. Now they are experiencing record flooding from...
Republican voters want action on climate change
2013-04-10 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Is the US Republican Party alienating its supporters by questioning climate change? Just 35 per cent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support the party's stance on the issue, according to a new poll. "We were quite surprised by the low level of support," says Ed Maibach of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a member of the polling team. During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, candidates competed to demonstrate their climate-sceptic credentials. But...
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U.S. Republican voters want action on climate change
2013-04-03 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new poll by the Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) at George Mason University finds that a majority of U.S. citizens who identify as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents want the government to do more to tackles climate change. Sixty-two percent of those polled said that the U.S. government "absolutely should" or "probably should" takes steps to address climate change. This goes against the views of many Republican congressmen-as well as the party platform-who largely oppose...
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