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Scientists targeted for cuts working on politically charged issues
2015-06-08 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The group of state Department of Natural Resources scientists that Republican lawmakers targeted for cuts has been working on a number of politically charged issues in recent years, including climate change, pollution and mining. Republicans say the cuts are designed to refocus the DNR on more practical research projects that help hunters and anglers. But Democrats say the GOP wants to slap the researchers down as political payback. It has to be political, Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, a member...
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'Dinnertimin'' and 'No Tipping': How Advertisers Targeted Black Consumers in the 1970s
2015-06-07 21:08:28| Beverages - Topix.net
In an attempt to reach African American customers, many U.S. businesses began integrating their commercials - often by relying on fraught stereotypes. In the 1970s, something special began happening in American advertising.
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Ralph Lauren targeted over fibre sourcing
2015-06-04 14:04:54| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has targeted luxury apparel firm Ralph Lauren as the most prominent of 15 apparel brands that it says needs to take more responsibility for the sourcing of its fibres.
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Australia: Moses and Paul Obeid targeted by ACCC over Hunter coal licence
2015-05-25 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two members of the Obeid family are facing legal action in the federal court over alleged rigging of the tender for the Mount Penny coal exploration licence in the upper Hunter region of New South Wales. Moses and Paul Obeid, sons of the former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid, and three prominent businessmen are the target of civil proceedings launched by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The action follows Icacs findings in 2013 that the process to grant exploration...
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Massive soil-testing program targeted for Clarkdale
2015-05-08 04:58:29| Waste Management - Topix.net
If requested, soil will be tested and possibly replaced in yards of more than 500 Clarkdale homes, businesses, parks and the grade school in the coming year. The testing is to determine if there are heavy metals in soil left from the smelter smoke that once blanketed the Upper Verde Valley.
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