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Sugar tax would set a dangerous precedent -- report
2016-04-20 13:26:13| Sugar Industry News
A sugar tax similar to the one recently introduced in the UK is unlikely to improve public health, claims a new report.
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More than half US population lives amid dangerous air pollution, report warns
2016-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than half of the US population lives amid potentially dangerous air pollution, with national efforts to improve air quality at risk of being reversed, a new report has warned. A total of 166 million Americans live in areas that have unhealthy levels of of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association, raising their risk of lung cancer, asthma attacks, heart disease, reproductive problems and other ailments. The associations 17th annual state of the air...
Thanking the Linemen Who Work in Dangerous Environments to Keep Us Safe
2016-04-19 04:08:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Today the nation pauses to give thanks to the thousands of men and women who risk their lives working as electrical linemen. April 18th is National Lineman Appreciation Day, established by U.S. Congress to honor those who regularly put their lives on the line to keep our lights and power on. Linemen repair downed power lines in the middle of hurricanes; bring lights back on during snow storms; and work atop poles over busy highways. Were glad to have a day dedicated to thank those who work in harms way to keep us safe. read more
Why dead coral reefs could mark beginning of dangerous climate change
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: The island of Kiritimati is one of the worlds most remote places -- one of several dozen atolls making up the tiny island nation of Kiribati, a speck in the Pacific Ocean more than a thousand miles south of Hawaii. But, isolated as it is, news of its devastated coral is turning heads around the world. A recent expedition has revealed that the reefs around Kiritimati have suffered a catastrophic mass die-off -- an event that epitomizes what may be an ugly truth about the ability of coral reefs around...
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USDA Silences Its Own Scientists Warnings About the Dangerous
2016-04-12 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Evidence has been mounting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been silencing its own bee scientists who have raised the alarm about the deadly impact that pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids, have on bees. Last month, for example, the Washington Post reported the story of Jonathan Lindgren, a USDA bee scientist, who filed a whistleblower suit alleging that he was disciplined to suppress his research. In 2014, Dr. Jeffery Pettis, another USDA bee scientist and beekeeping advocate,...
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