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Keystone XL: As senators promote symbolic vote, Canadian ambassador touts nation's climate record
2013-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As the Senate weighs a symbolic vote on the oil sands crude pipeline that has rallied green opposition to a degree rivaled only by proposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Canada's ambassador to the United States yesterday walked a line increasingly familiar to his government -- committing to stronger climate change action but refusing to link those moves to approval of Keystone XL. Ambassador Gary Doer spoke alongside American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard at an anniversary...
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Experts urge Caribbean nations to prepare for climate change or risk fresh water scarcity
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean -- the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region. Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week. "Inaction is not an option,' said Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Caribbean land and water officer...
Auto sales down 1.1% in AugustSeptember 4, 2013 The nation's new...
2013-09-04 10:41:03| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The nation's new automobile sales in August dropped 1.1 percent from a year before to 366,754 units, down for the fourth straight month, according to industry data.
UK governments act illegal in wind farm approval process: United Nations
2013-08-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
A United Nations (UN) legal tribunal has ruled that the UK government acted illegally by denying the public decision-making powers over their approval on wind farms.
Precision Castparts ranked as nation's No. 1 air polluter
2013-08-28 05:39:10| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
PORTLAND, Ore. One of only two Fortune 500 companies in Oregon has gained another noteworthy distinction.
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