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Court upholds judgment against Union Pacific in railroad worker's death
2014-08-22 20:40:40| Railroads - Topix.net
The Texas Court of Appeals has affirmed a $1.2 million judgment awarded to the family of a railroad employee who died from complications after being injured on the job.
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Death after Hank Williams Jr. show ruled homicide
2014-08-22 20:11:34| Energy - Topix.net
The Oakland County medical examiner's office has ruled as a homicide the death of a 55-year-old man after a confrontation with a teenager at a Detroit-area Hank Williams Jr. concert.
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2.2 million bean bag chairs are recalled after 2 children suffocate to death
2014-08-22 17:36:41| Grocery - Topix.net
About 2.2 million bean bag chairs are being recalled after two children opened them, crawled inside and suffocated to death.
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Bird threats from renewables include solar zapping, wind turbine death
2014-08-21 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Reminiscent of a sunray being directed with a magnifying glass at a hapless ant on the sidewalk, environmentalists have been warning for months about the deadly consequences to birds flying over the worlds largest solar-generating plant. It is Californias $2.2 billion massive Ivanpah solar installation in the Mojave Desert, 45 miles southwest of Las Vegas. According to a report in Grist, witnesses saw birds fly over the super-concentrated array and get fried by the intense rays that resulted...
Californias new solar power plant is actually a death ray thats incinerating birds mid-flight
2014-08-20 15:35:45| Extremetech
What spans 1,600 hectares, cost $2.2 billion to build, and fries up to 28,000 birds per year? The new BrightSource solar power plant in California's Mojave Dessert. The plant, which uses some 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors to focus sunlight on three boiler towers, also acts as a death ray, instantly igniting and killing any wildlife that happen to fly through the intense beam of light. Wildlife officials are concerned that this concentrated solar power plant, and others like it, could turn into mega-trap that decimates the ecosystem -- first attracting insects, and then attracting birds that eat insects.
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