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He shared a great ideological affinity with Carol M. Browner, the assistant to the president for energy and climate change—that is, the global-warming czar.
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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He shared a great ideological affinity with Carol M. Browner, the assistant to the president for energy and climate change—that is, the global-warming czar.
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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The Seattle orchestra will perform a program that includes a new commission from Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams, "Come Ocean " - described as a global-warming piece about the melting ice caps and rising seas - plus Varèse's "Déserts" and Debussy's "La Mer."
The Seattle Times 2012
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BEIJING — The top U.S. climate-change negotiator said Friday after a "constructive" meeting with his Chinese counterpart that "there's a deal to be had" at the November global-warming summit in Mexico.
U.S. Envoy Hopeful on Climate Deal Shai Oster 2010
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The Copenhagen meeting last December to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 ended with a nonbinding accord amid recriminations between China and the U.S., the world's two biggest sources of global-warming gases.
U.S. Envoy Hopeful on Climate Deal Shai Oster 2010
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The Chamber's ads praise Mr. Upton, who is the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, for his votes against global-warming legislation and the health-care overhaul.
Chamber Starting Early Hill Ad Blitz Brody Mullins 2012
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A combination of rail and congestion pricing forms a sustainable path to reduced congestion and global-warming emissions.
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Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director behind Al Gore's global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is turning his lens these days on our nation's troubled public schools.
Reporting for Duty 2010
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"Let us not forget, amid the clamor proclaiming Proposition 1 our" once-in-a-lifetime "chance to build light rail, that two years ago we had a much better light-rail proposal — one that did not commit sales tax to polluting highway lanes and that would have helped solve the global-warming problem ..."
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So the conventional American narrative, in which India and China are lumped together as our competitive manufacturing threats and as looming global-warming heavies, is fundamentally flawed.
Carl Pope: India Vs. China: Which Low-Carbon Development Model Will Win? Carl Pope 2010
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