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UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress
2013-06-01 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Protecting the environment must be at the core of efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030, finds a high-level panel whose 27 members include UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Queen Rania of Jordan. Panel Co-chair President Yudhoyono delivered the report Thursday to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who immediately presented it to the UN General Assembly. Co-chairs of the High-Level Panel, from left: UK...
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Honeywell Improves Environmental Protection and Operator Safety for U.S. Inland Barge Fleet
2013-04-24 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Operators Increasingly Turning to Honeywell’s HERMetic Technology to Ensure Safer and More Reliable Operations and Measurements<br /> <br /> HOUSTON -- Honeywell (NYSE:HON) reported today that operating companies of all sizes within the United States inland barge market are turning to Honeywell’s Tanksystem portable level gauging and sampling technology to optimize custody transfer measurements and improve safety and environmental protection on both newly built barges and retrofit ...This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsSearch for suppliers of: Marine Valves | Tank Level Gages
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Group that opposes U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan for...
2013-04-10 14:39:22| Waste Management - Topix.net
Members of a group who oppose the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan to cap and monitor long-term the former Allied Paper landfill in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood plan to hold a forum on the proposal this month.
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Obama Budget Reduces Spending for Environmental Protection Agency
2013-04-10 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dow Jones: The Obama administration's 2014 budget proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency totals $8.2 billion, or about 3.5% below the 2012 enacted level and almost 5% less than provided for under the 2013 continuing resolution. Most programs receive roughly similar funding levels as the last two years. The administration proposes cutting funds for grants to state-level environmental programs by about $465 million, or about 13%, compared with 2012 levels. The administration often proposes cuts in...
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Canada: Environmental protection is tied to health of economy
2013-02-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Montreal Gazette: In a speech last week to his Conservative caucus, Stephen Harper laid out four priorities for his government: citizenship, crime, the economy and families. Following this weeks report to the House of Commons by Scott Vaughan, the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, he would be well advised to add a fifth to that list: environmental regulation. Vaughans report points out numerous weaknesses and confusions in federal environmental protection laws and monitoring...
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