Tag: united states
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Wake Up World Leaders: Expedite Renewable Energy, End Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The global temperature is rising. Freak weather events are multiplying. Climate change is happening. And yet governments are giving $6 to polluting fossil fuels for every $1 that goes to clean renewables.
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Obama and Nixon: A Historical Perspective
Those who bother to read these historical snippets will find many important departures and only tenuous parallels between the Obama Administration’s IRS affair and Richard Nixon’s Watergate-era IRS scandal. A principal distinction is …
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Farm Bill Heads to Senate and House Floors
There are some significant differences between the House and the Senate versions, in both what their bills actually contain and in the process used to get them through the committee.
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Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy
President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates …
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SkyTruth Testifies Before Congress on Fracking Disclosure Rules
The hearing was entitled “DOI Hydraulic Fracturing Rule: A Recipe for Government Waste, Duplication and Delay.” SkyTruth’s testimony addressed the need for public disclosure of chemicals used in fracking.