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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's progress in reforming its forestry sector will not be sufficient to meet its pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2020, Norway's environment minister said on Tuesday. Indonesia imposed a two-year ...
May 22, 2012 at 12:25 | Source: Reuters UK
Palmetto Bay declared a four month moratorium on building permits for nonresidential uses in residential neighborhoods so that the village can work on revising its rules to preserve neighborhoods. The Village Council voted 3-2 in support of ...
May 22, 2012 at 21:08 | Source: Miami Herald
Re: “‘Bring our deer back,’?” May 16 Outdoors story. Deer hunters are agitating for Colorado to emulate Utah’s efforts to reportedly spend $1 million killing coyotes. This inclination to artificially adjust population numbers shows why ...
May 21, 2012 at 22:49 | Source: Denver Post
Todd Bond, the county's budget officer, said the estimated impact fee loss is about $4 million, and the estimated gain in property taxes from the new projects would be about $600,000 per year. "I want people to know Polk County is open for ...
May 14, 2012 at 23:55 | Source: The Ledger
MEMBER for the North Queensland seat of Mount Isa, Rob Katter, has called for an immediate moratorium on coal seam gas drilling in the wake of the Queensland Water Commission's report into the impact of CSG drilling in the Surat Basin. Mr Katter, who is ...
May 27, 2012 at 21:52 | Source: North Queensland Register
LAFAYETTE, La. – Visitors to this oil town might be forgiven for wondering whether the BP oil spill and subsequent drilling moratorium ever happened. “Now hiring” signs are plastered on billboards around town, and hotels such as the Crowne ...
May 25, 2012 at 08:47 | Source: Tacoma News Tribune
JAKARTA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Coalition of Indonesia's civil society organizations for forest protection today called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to strengthen the deforestation moratorium so as to make it a real instrument to reduce, and ...
May 21, 2012 at 08:44 | Source: Xinhua News Agency
About 130 protesters marched north through the Loop this morning calling for a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures. The group walked from the Chicago Board of Trade and stopped briefly at a Citibank branch at LaSalle and Madison streets just ...
May 16, 2012 at 22:34 | Source: Chicago Tribune
The city of Des Moines’ grip on businesses seeking to sell alcohol tightened Monday night when the City Council extended a temporary ban on new liquor licenses on stores as small as gas stations and as large as supermarkets. Officials realized ...
May 22, 2012 at 06:13 | Source: Indianapolis Star
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- Birmingham's moratorium on new payday loan, check cashing and title pawn businesses was extended as city leaders decide how to regulate the industry's proliferation along busy streets. The City Council approved extending ...
May 16, 2012 at 22:41 | Source: Everything Alabama Blog