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Monsanto and Dow raise $8 million to strip away Hawaiian locals' right to ban destructive GMO farming
2014-11-02 21:09:50| Biotech - Topix.net
A pair of agri-giants has raised millions of dollars in a bid to prevent Hawaiian farmers and residents from eliminating the growth of genetically modified crops in the state. According to a local news website, Honolulu Civil Beat , Monsanto and Dow -- two of the world's largest biotech and agricultural conglomerates, have amassed an $8 million war chest to beat back a Maui County voter initiative that would ban temporarily all GMO farming, according to documents filed with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission.
Monsanto and Dow raise $8 million to strip away Hawaiian locals' right to ban destructive GMO farming
2014-11-02 08:56:01| Airlines - Topix.net
A pair of agri-giants has raised millions of dollars in a bid to prevent Hawaiian farmers and residents from eliminating the growth of genetically modified crops in the state. According to a local news website, Honolulu Civil Beat , Monsanto and Dow -- two of the world's largest biotech and agricultural conglomerates, have amassed an $8 million war chest to beat back a Maui County voter initiative that would ban temporarily all GMO farming, according to documents filed with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission.
Crews make headway against destructive Northern California wildfire
2014-07-28 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters began to gain the upper hand on Monday against a Northern California wildfire that has destroyed 13 homes and blackened nearly six square miles in the drought-parched foothills east of Sacramento, officials said. Crews had built containment lines around roughly two-thirds of the so-called Sand Fire as of Monday morning, up from only 35 percent on Sunday evening, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Some residents who were forced to flee their homes ahead...
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OXY CEO Refuses Destructive Divestitures, Will Keep Bakken
2014-05-07 16:31:00| OGI
The company is moving forward with efforts to reshape the company to focus on the Permian.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger 'linked to destructive logging companies'
2014-03-26 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the one-time action hero fronting a blockbuster TV special on climate change next month, has financial ties to some of the worlds most destructive logging companies, an investigation group found on Tuesday. The former governor and climate champion is a part owner of an investment company, Dimensional Fund Advisers, with significant holdings in tropical forestry companies. A number of those forestry companies were implicated in highly destructive and illegal logging which...
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