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With more oil trains comes more calls for safety
2014-03-10 06:26:41| Railroads - Topix.net
Crude oil tank cars move along the Norfolk Southern rail line near I-95 on Feb. 11. / ROBERT CRAIG/THE NEWS JOURNAL WHAT: Rail Safety Community Meeting WHEN: 6 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Delaware City Fire Hall, 815 Fifth St. in Delaware City WHO: Lawmakers, first-responders, officials from the Delaware Emergency Management Agency, the state Emergency ... (more)
United Nations Calls for Pro-family Farming Policies
2014-03-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva have appealed to governments to boost support to the world’s small-scale family farmers in order to win the fight against hunger.
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US Calls for Taiwan to Set Limit for Ractopamine in Pork
2014-03-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US & TAIWAN - The United States has continued to urge Taiwan to establish a maximum residue level (MRL) for the beta-agonist, ractopamine, in pork.
China calls on rich nations give $490 billion for climate
2014-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China, the biggest country by population and carbon emissions, called on developed nations to provide $490 billion of climate funding to poorer countries through 2020 to help them adapt to droughts and floods. From 2020, richer countries should give at least 1 percent a year of their gross domestic product to the Green Climate Fund based in Songdo, Korea, China said in a submission published today on the website of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. They should give annual funding...
Pentagon Calls Climate Change Impacts Threat Multipliers
2014-03-06 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: The U.S. Department of Defense released the 2014 version of its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) yesterday, declaring the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerability that, among other things, could enable further terrorist activity. Released every four years, the QDR is a broad outline of U.S. military strategy discussing how to maintain global U.S. military hegemony. Like the 2010 document, the 64-page 2014 QDR again highlights the threats posed to national...
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