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An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, raise taxes on the wealthy and trim popular benefit programs including Social Security and...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Private Health Care, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Space Programs, Politics
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Mercer teacher hopes to never stop learning
kpeek@amnews.comTo never stop learning is the goal for Eve Kersey, a sixth-grade teacher at King Middle School in Harrodsburg. “I love learning, so I’m just going to learn as much as I can. That’s probably why I became a teacher, because I love...Tags: Research, Education, Conservation, Teaching and Learning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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COLUMN-Battle of Balcombe's shale to test British policymakers: Kemp
Reuters(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own) By John Kemp LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - The village of Balcombe in West Sussex, with fewer than 2,000 residents, is set to test whether Britain's politicians, media and public...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Water, Politics, Energy Resources
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Plants slow climate change by forming cloud sunshade-study
Reuters* Forests could offset 1 percent of global warming * Warming makes clouds emit particles that seed clouds * Clouds' white tops reflect heat back into space By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, April 28 (Reuters) - Plants help to slow...Tags: Helsinki (Finland), Weather Reports, Weather, Environmental Issues, Global Warming
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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps
Daily American Staff Writer, @daalyssacPITTSBURGH (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided...Tags: Petroleum Industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Energy Resources, Conservation
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Industrialised nations' greenhouse gas emissions dipped in 2011
ReutersBy Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, April 26 (Reuters) - Industrialised nations' greenhouse gas emissions dipped 0.7 percent in 2011, helped by a U.S. shift from high-polluting coal in power plants and by Europe's economic slowdown, data...Tags: European Union, Weather, Environmental Issues, Oslo (Norway), Global Warming
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More to Earth Day than climate scare
I was happy to see that National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli wrote about the important activities that we, as individuals and as a society, can do to protect the environment, without once mentioning the impossible goal of "stopping climate change" ("...
Tags: Weather, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Earth Day, Ecosystems
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New science standards call for teaching climate change and more
The politically touchy topic of climate change will be taught more deeply to students under proposed new national science standards released Tuesday. The Next Generation Science Standards, developed over the last year by California and 25 other states in...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Lotteries, Technology, Science, Ecosystems
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The next crisis: Fed promised, Fed delivered - James Saft
Reuters(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) (Reuters) - Don't say you weren't warned. The next crisis is coming, driven on by Federal Reserve policy which in seeking to keep inflation and employment on target will also breed...Tags: Employment, Career and Workplace, Federal Reserve, Employment Opportunities, Global Warming
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U.S. should do more on climate change to aid economy-UN's Figueres
Reuters* US has many ways to step up actions-UN climate chief * US climate action has not matched US economic capacity By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, April 23 (Reuters) - The United States should do more to fight climate change and help...Tags: European Parliament, International Organizations, European Union, Politics, Parliament
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
INDIANA FLOODING 2 W. Ind. towns flooded, more rain expected UNDATED (AP) — Residents of a small western Indiana town across the Wabash River from Terre Haute are using sandbags to shore up a levee in a bid to keep flood waters out of about two...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Ball State University, Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Lucie L. Snodgrass: Md. farmers do their part
Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has led to enormous growth in understanding the consequences we face if we do not take care of our natural resources. It has led to more action to protect our planet’s land, water, air, wildlife and human...Tags: Weather, Environmental Issues, Earth Day, Agriculture, Ecosystems
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 9, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
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