Congress voted Thursday to permanently bar state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet, as lawmakers leapt at an election-year chance to demonstrate their opposition to imposing levies on online service.
Business
Feb 11, 2016
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India has made progress bringing electricity to its people, but satellite images of the country show that some local governments have exaggerated the success.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 10, 2016
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The face masks, thick dark haze and pollution warnings plaguing residents of China's capital this week once were a fact of life for people living in Japan's biggest industrial cities.
Environment
Dec 9, 2015
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Colorado's loud public battle over fracking goes before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday when the justices hear arguments about whether local governments can ban the technique.
Environment
Dec 9, 2015
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The snow that falls on the Colorado mountains melts into trillions of gallons of water every year, and most of it flows downstream to Mexico, California and 17 other states. Colorado will release on Thursday its first-ever ...
Environment
Nov 19, 2015
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Google is adding Oklahoma City and two cites in Florida to the list of communities in line for its ultra-fast Internet service.
Telecom
Oct 28, 2015
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A land use plan adopted for the Sacramento, California, region aimed to get local governments to plan together for development in a way that discouraged sprawl.
Environment
Aug 24, 2015
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Small cities and rural areas lag behind in environmental protection policymaking because they often lack the financial or technical resources needed. According to newly published research at Binghamton University, places ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 10, 2015
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Japan's embattled utility Tokyo Electric Power Co now expects the compensation costs after the Fukushima nuclear disaster to be more than $57 billion, the government confirmed Tuesday.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 28, 2015
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A new study finds the numbers of young people being accommodated by local authorities or homeless services across the UK to be over three times higher than those recorded by the Government, and highlights the 'hidden homelessness' ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2015
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