Appropriations Bill Funding the Government Zeroes Out High Speed Rail | FDL News Desk

An office on climate change in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was also nixed.

Three million Afghans face hunger as winter looms: aid groups | Reuters

"Time is running out to be able to provide communities with the help they most desperately need before a harsh winter makes many areas inaccessible. Snow is already falling and many mountainous areas are likely to be cut off within weeks."

 Afghanistan's harsh winter which lasts from November to March often results in heavy snowfall of up to 13 feet deep, blocking remote mountain passes and leaving hundreds of thousands of villagers isolated for months.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Record Fairbanks cold continues air quality warnings issued

Thursday’s record low of 41 below marked the sixth earliest 40-below temperature recorded by the National Weather Service in Fairbanks since 1904. The earliest it’s ever hit 40 below in Fairbanks was Nov. 5, 1907, when it hit 41 below.

The last time Fairbanksans saw 40-below temperatures in November was in 1994, when temperatures of 45, 43 and 45 below were recorded on Nov. 24, 25 and 30, respectively.

Green Campaigns & The BBC's Conflicts Of Interest

t does seem to me that the BBC is just up to its eyeballs in inappropriate relationships with environmentalists.

New Report: Carbon Floor Price Threatens UK Industry

New research by the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) finds that, as well as increasing domestic energy prices, the carbon floor price threatens energy intensive industries whose costs will rise in Britain while their competitors' costs in the rest of Europe fall, and tens of thousands of jobs are at stake. Some companies have made it clear that the rise in costs threatens billions in new investment, or even the ability to keep major plants open.