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Deficit push sets climate bill back
Washington :: DC :: USA | 12 days ago
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Friday that President Barack Obama plans curb new domestic spending beyond jobs programs and focus on cutting the federal deficit next year. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid has hinted that Democrats plan to take up a job-creation bill, in the...
Tags: Democratic Senate, climate change, White House, change legislation, Barack Obama, moderate democrat, Washington, Barbara Boxer, Presidency of Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman, Democratic Party, Political parties in the United States, Byron Dorgan, Max Baucus, Politics, Environment
Republicans boycott hearing on climate change bill
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 22 days ago
Credibility Democratic senators in the Environment and Public Works Committee faced a row of empty seats across from them this morning, as Republicans are boycotting hearings on climate change legislation. The standoff between committee chair Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.,...
Tags: climate change, Senate Republicans, US Senate, change bills, Barbara Boxer, change legislation, republican boycott, Environmental Protection Agency, climate debate, global warming
Pranksters stage Chamber of Commerce climate change event
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 19, 2009; 12:57 PM Will the real U.S. Chamber of Commerce please stand up? Environmental activists held a hoax press conference Monday morning, pretending to be the business group -- and pretending...
Tags: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, yes men, climate change, press conference, change legislation, press release, The Washington Post, jamming activists, fake press, corporate entity
Graham joins Kerry in climate bill support
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Sunday announced he has joined Democratic backers of climate change legislation. In a coup for congressional Democrats, Graham co-authored an opinion piece with Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass., that appeared in Sunday's...
Tags: John Kerry, climate change, Senate Republican, change legislation, Lindsey Graham, The New York Times, Lindsay Graham, Lindsey Graham
Chamber rips Apple for quitting
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Chamber of Commerce is beating back against a series of recent defections by several big businesses turned off by the business group's opposition to climate change legislation. The business lobby released a letter sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs on...
Tags: climate change, U.S. House, Apple, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, vice president, climate policy, Catherine Novelli, change legislation
Just leave, shareholders tell Nike...
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Emily Stone, a spokeswoman for Green Century, said Nike’s public statement criticizing the Chamber’s stance on climate was a “great step forward,” but that the company should do more by ending its membership. “In Nike’s own words, ‘Just do it,’ ” Curtis...
Tags: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, climate change, Nike, change legislation
Climate bill slammed at pro-coal West Virginia rally
Holden :: MA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility W.Va. — The chief executive of coal mining giant Massey Energy blasted supporters of climate-change legislation and other environmental issues affecting the coal industry at a free Labor Day concert and rally in southern West Virginia. CEO Don Blankenship...
Tags: Don Blankenship, West Virginia, Massey Energy, coal industry, American, change legislation, southern west, blasts supporters
Obama promotes clean energy on Earth Day
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The president promoted his alternative energy plan on an Earth Day visit to the central state of Iowa. He said the U.S. should be the world's leading exporter of clean energy instead of being the leading importer of oil. "It is time for us to lay a new...
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress Split On Cap-And-Trade, clean energy, greenhouse gas, obama administration, Iowa, gas emissions, change legislation
Sleaze claim peer recording released
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Secret recordings of one of the Labour peers facing corruption allegations have been made public. The Sunday Times says the footage backs up allegations that Lord Truscott offered his services to help change legislation for cash. The Sunday Times says...
Tags: Truscott, lords truscott, labour peer, Labour, secretly film, change legislation, energy minister
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