Monday, December 15, 2014

December 15 News Update

Lima climate change talks reach global warming agreement
Deal reached at UN climate talks
U.N. talks agree building blocks for new-style climate deal in 2015
Rising sea levels could make Florida residents 'climate refugees'
Climate Deal Would Commit Every Nation to Cut Emissions *
What was agreed and what wasn't agreed in Lima climate talks
Lima agreement fails humanity and the earth
A Climate Accord Based on Global Peer Pressure *

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Protesters march on Washington, demand end to 'blue on black crime'
25,000 March in New York to Protest Police Violence *

Minorities Fall Further Behind Whites in Wealth *
NLRB issues rule to speed up union organizing
Cuban Doctors in the Hot Zone
Poll: Half of Republicans back limits on carbon
The movement against Teach for America
Bangladesh oil spill a 'catastrophe'
EPA approves another superchemical for superweeds
Venezuela to face US sanctions over violence against protesters
Ferguson offers hope to family of unarmed Native man killed by police
Growing fear of rural post office closures
DOJ won't force reporter to reveal source
Congress OKs $577B in defense spending
Ottawa allows Microsoft Canada to bring foreign worker trainees
P.E.I. minimum wage to increase in 2015
Congress poised to allow cuts to private pension payouts
Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in cycle of debt
Shut up and work: The question of free speech on the job
In Final Spending Bill, Salty Food and Belching Cows Are Winners *


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