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Court battle over plain tobacco packets

2015-12-10 03:17:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Four of the world's biggest tobacco firms will begin a legal challenge later to the government's new packaging rules, due to come into force in May.

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Colorado's Fracking Battle Goes Before State Supreme Court

2015-12-09 09:38:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

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. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, helped set off an energy boom in Colorado .

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Firefighters battle mulch fire in Lebanon

2015-12-08 02:33:01| Chemicals - Topix.net

The fire ignited at Scotts Co. on Industrial Road and reached a first alarm around 5:30 am, according to the volunteer fire department.

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Bangladesh island losing battle to stem climate tide

2015-12-06 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Hamida Begum has fled her home on Bangladesh's Kutubdia island more times than she can remember while her neighbours have already given up the battle to prevent theirs being swallowed by the sea. "I am scared our house will be washed away as well some day and during the monsoon season we can't live here at all,' says the mother-of-four, standing outside the only one of a row of mud-brick shacks still intact. "But this is our land and besides, we don't have money to go elsewhere.' Although...

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