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Pressure mounts on UK's polluting water companies
2013-08-05 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Sunday, I revealed in the Observer that the most persistent and frequent polluters of England's rivers and beaches are the nation's biggest 10 biggest water companies. I wrote: The companies, who are responsible for treating waste water and delivering clean supplies, have been punished for over 1000 incidents in the last nine years but fined a total of only 3.5m. The revelations have prompted deep concern that the financial penalties being levied are far too low to change the behaviour of an...
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Oil Companies Used Fracturing in Coastal Waters Off California
2013-08-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Companies prospecting for oil off Californias coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are investigating whether the practice should require a separate permit and be subject to stricter environmental review. While debate has raged over fracking on land, prompting efforts to ban or severely restrict it, offshore fracking has occurred with little attention in sensitive coastal waters where for decades new oil leases...
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Japanese companies test steel prototype EMU in Tokyo
2013-08-05 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Japan Transport Engineering Company (J-TREC) and Tokyo commuter operator Tokyu are testing a prototype of the Sustina electric multiple-unit (EMU) car in Tokyo.
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Higher costs put oil companies in earnings slump
2013-08-05 00:43:25| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
New troves of oil are being found all over the globe and each barrel produced is selling for more than $100, as of Thursday.
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FCC's rule revision ends rural subsidy for cellphone companies [The Honolulu Star-Advertiser]
2013-08-04 17:50:17| IT Services - Topix.net
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Aug. 04--The federal government is turning off the subsidy spigot that has provided hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to help some of Hawaii's largest cellphone providers expand their wireless networks across the state.
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