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Beijing to raise threshold for issuing air pollution 'red alerts'
2016-02-21 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Beijing is to raise the thresholds for issuing its highest air pollution warnings, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, two months after acrid smog triggered the city's first ever "red alerts". In future, the highest alert will only be issued when the daily average air quality index (AQI) is forecast to exceed 500 for a day, 300 for two days in a row or 200 for four days, Xinhua reported, citing Beijing's environmental protection bureau. At present, a red alert is issued when the...
Climate change politics is blinding us to the devastating effects of dirty air
2016-02-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is the greatest environmental hazard of the age. Nothing focuses our concern for the future more, divides rich and poor, exercises science, business, politicians, old and young. It is an existential threat, a generational battle. All political and financial resources must be concentrated on stopping climate change. But now that governments have signed up to the unambitious Paris climate agreement and pledged to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions, we must ask whether we have lost sight of...
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Sealed Air Corp (SEE) Coverage Initiated at RBC Capital
2016-02-21 10:52:58| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The brokerage set an "outperform" rating and a $53.00 price target on the stock. RBC Capital's price target suggests a potential upside of 22.43% from the stock's current price.
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China to build ventilation 'corridors' in Beijing to help tackle air pollution
2016-02-21 06:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Authorities in Beijing are reportedly developing a network of ventilation corridors to help tackle the citys notorious air pollution. Construction in the zones, which will be created by connecting parks, rivers, lakes, highways and low building blocks, will be strictly controlled and obstacles to air flow will be removed over time, said the Xinhua state news agency, citing Wang Fei, deputy head of Beijings urban planning committee, as saying. There will be five large corridors that will...
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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB) Upgraded to...
2016-02-21 05:44:23| Railroads - Topix.net
According to Zacks, "Wabtec Corporation is one of North America's largest providers of value-added, technology-based products and services for the rail industry. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures a full range of products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles.
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