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Activists say California fighting pollution globally but not locally

2014-07-01 12:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Anchorage Daily News: In the San Francisco Bay Area oil port city of Martinez, where a colossal Shell refinery has long tainted the air, the landmark California law that requires polluters to ease their carbon footprint seemed to some to promise new relief. But one big move by Shell to comply with rules on greenhouse gas emissions won't do much for Martinez. It will instead give a boost to the environment in the pristine Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where the oil company is helping preserve a 200,000-acre forest. ...

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NZ fourth globally for real estate market transparency

2014-06-28 05:04:05| Real Estate - Topix.net

New Zealand has been placed fourth in the world in the "highly transparent" category of JLL's biennial Global Real Estate Transparency report .

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ZTE aims to ship over 80 mln smartphones globally in 2015

2014-06-10 14:25:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer ZTE expects to ship more than 80 million smartphones globally next year and nearly 60 million this year, Reuters reports, citing ZTE's executive VP Zeng Xuezong. According to the report, the Chinese firm shipped nearly 40 million smartphones in 2013. For 2016, ZTE expects total smartphone shipments to reach about 100 million. The executive aso said that 60 percent of total smartphones to be shipped in 2015 would be handsets compatible with 4G networks.

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