Rudd left after recent vastly unpopular decisions, including imposing a new mining tax and nixing a carbon-reduction scheme.
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The number of properties affected on this occasion was significantly fewer than the previous flooding event in 2007, after which the council implemented a flooding risk reduction scheme in the area.
The letter, organized by Beyond Zero Emissions, comes as a response to the failure of the much-compromised Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), which was pilloried as a giveaway to fossil fuel industries and ineffective for driving clean energy deployment.
Lawyers for a resident said the council had acted unlawfully when consulting on the "council tax reduction" scheme.
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The United States House of Representatives recently passed the Waxman-Markey Bill, setting an emissions reduction target and introducing a cap and trade scheme.
In a briefing paper published earlier this year, the WHO said the scheme had achieved a 40% reduction in drug prices and significantly improved the availability of essential drugs.
Mr Sargeant has extended a rate relief scheme that would see a significant or complete reduction in business rates for many Welsh businesses by a further 12 months until 1 October 2012.
"A huge slice of the 11.3% reduction was achieved long before the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) got underway, " he told BBC News.
The new terms include a reduction in full sickness pay entitlement, freezing the performance related pay scheme and replacing the use of a national pay bargaining system with a local one.
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It also said "great uncertainty" remained over the planned transition at the end of the year from Cert (Carbon Emission Reduction Target) to the UK government's "Green Deal" - a scheme which aims to improve the energy efficiency of homes by eliminating the need for householders to pay upfront for efficiency measures.
The discount scheme, which was introduced in March, gives motorists a maximum 5p per litre reduction in duty.
The scheme includes safety improvements at 52 junctions, including new advanced stop lines, cycle feeder lanes and speed reduction measures.
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