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U.K. Enacts its First National Recycling Guidelines
2016-10-12 23:05:29| Waste Age
They are designed to help make it easier for households in the U.K. to recycle and reduce the amount of material getting tossed into incorrect bins.
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Texas, a center of U.S. shark fin trade, enacts ban on practice
2016-07-01 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Texas A ban on the shark fin trade took effect in Texas on Friday, a move environmental groups hope will end the state's status as one of the main U.S. centers for the product prized as a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. Texas became the first state on the Gulf of Mexico coast to enact a ban on the trade and joins 10 other states, mostly on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, to prohibit a practice that conservationists blame for a global decline in sharks. Texas had seen a 240 percent increase in...
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California enacts monumental climate change goals
2015-10-08 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: California already has some of the toughest air quality standards in the world, but Gov. Jerry Brown still isnt satisfied. On Wednesday, Mr. Brown committed the state to ambitious climate change goals, including doubling the energy-efficiency of existing buildings and relying on renewable energy for 50 percent of electricity use by 2030. Brown also tried to lobby for a measure to reduce petroleum use by half within the next 15 years; a measure that ultimately failed due to intense opposition from...
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Panel's OK enacts ban on Buffalo hog farms
2015-08-29 14:14:51| Waste Management - Topix.net
New medium or large hog farms are now banned for the next five years in the Buffalo National River's watershed, under an Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission vote approving the ban Friday. No commissioners opposed the ban, which was a compromise from a proposal for a permanent ban that most commissioners initially allowed to proceed last year.
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Eugene Water & Electric Board Enacts FlexNet Communication Network
2015-07-09 16:50:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Oregons largest customer-owned utility, Eugene Water & Electric Board, will deploy Sensus technologies for its more than 154,000 water and electric customers. read more
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