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Chemical Polluter Convicted in Massive Scheme to Deceive the EPA
2015-07-04 22:02:50| Automakers - Topix.net
Michael J. Conrad, an Escondido chemist whose company was previously convicted of environmental crimes in federal court in 2012, pleaded guilty to a new charge this morning, this time admitting that he submitted false documents to the Environmental Protection Agency to obscure his involvement in the prior federal case and avoid becoming ineligible for federal contracts. Conrad pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mitchell Dembin to one count of making false statements.
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Brazil announces massive reforestation & renewable energy plan with US
2015-06-30 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama and Dilma Rousseff put climate change at the top of their agenda at their bilateral meeting on Tuesday, with the US and Brazil agreeing to get up to 20% of their electricity from renewable power by 2030. Brazil also committed to restore up to 12m hectares of forest an area about the size of England or Pennsylvania in another attempt to reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change. The White House said the initiatives were part of a new US-Brazil climate partnership,...
Duke Energy CEO gets hefty pay raise 1 year after massive coal ash spill
2015-06-30 07:28:08| Energy - Topix.net
Duke Energy's board of directors has voted to bump CEO Lynn Good's salary above $1.2 million, calling her performance 'exemplary' just a year after a Duke coal ash spill filled 70 miles of a North Carolina river with toxic heavy metals. In this April 2, 2014 file photo, Duke Energy president and CEO Lynn Good gestures as she speaks to a business group during a luncheon in Charlotte, N.C. Good is getting a raise a year after the country's largest electric company confronted a coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge containing toxic heavy metals, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday, June 29, 2015.
Massive warehouse plan has Moreno Valley divided over jobs, environment
2015-06-28 12:49:58| Logistics - Topix.net
Riverside County resident Betty Masters protests the Moreno Valley City Council's support of developer Iddo Benzeevi's proposed World Logistics Center. Riverside County resident Betty Masters protests the Moreno Valley City Council's support of developer Iddo Benzeevi's proposed World Logistics Center.
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Firefighters battle massive blazes from Alaska to drought-hit California
2015-06-20 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters were working on Friday to contain several massive wildfires raging from Alaska to drought-hit California that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate from their homes and damaged dozens of structures. The so-called Lake Fire in a mountainous national forest outside Los Angeles had swelled to 11,000 acres (4,500 hectares) on Friday from 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares) the day before as it scorched old-growth timber on steep slopes and threatened some 150 structures, the San Bernardino...
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