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Climate scientists face tight deadline to deliver 1.5C research

2016-02-15 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: The UN`s climate science panel faces a tight deadline to drum up research on a 1.5C global warming limit. Adopted as an aspirational goal at last December`s Paris summit, the 1.5C threshold is seen as critical to protect vulnerable communities. But most available analysis focuses on the longer standing 2C target. Accordingly, in the small print of the deal was a request to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for a special report on 1.5C, by 2018. That effectively gives researchers...

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CSX, CN, Norfolk Southern Say They Won't Make 2018 Safety Upgrade Deadline

2016-02-09 12:51:18| Railroads - Topix.net

Despite a three-year extension approved by Congress late last year, three of the nation's largest freight railroad companies informed the Federal Railroad Administration this month that they will not meet the 2018 deadline to install new required safety systems. The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 originally mandated that Positive Train Control systems be implemented across a significant portion of the nation's rail industry by Dec. 31, 2015.

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Big freight railroads to miss safety technology deadline

2016-02-03 08:33:14| Railroads - Topix.net

In this June 4, 2014 file photo, a Norfolk Southern locomotive moves along the tracks in Norfolk, Va. Three of the biggest freight railroads operating in the U.S. have told telling the government they won't make a 2018 deadline to start using safety technology intended to prevent accidents like the deadly derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia last May. Norfolk Southern, Canadian National Railway and CSX Transportation and say they won't be ready until 2020, according to a list provided to The Associated Press by the Federal Railroad Administration.

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Volkswagen faces Tuesday U.S. deadline for SUV emission repair

2016-02-01 22:52:44| Automakers - Topix.net

Volkswagen AG faces a Feb. 2 deadline to submit a repair plan for 80,000 diesel SUVs and larger cars that emit excess pollution, even as it considers buying back some vehicles and a prior fix plan for smaller vehicles was rejected. The second largest automaker still hasn't announced any timetable for winning approval from U.S. and California regulators to address excess emissions in 575,000 2.0 and 3.0 litre U.S. vehicles.

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