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Power plant carbon emissions fall 10 percent
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A shift by utilities to cleaner burning natural gas helped carbon pollution from power plants fall over the last three years, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday. EPA began reporting data gathered from 8,000 facilities across the largest pollution-emitting industries on greenhouse gas in 2010. Since, power plant carbon emissions have declined 10 percent. The drop in emissions is attributed to a decrease in coal production for electricity generation...
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Norfolk Southern hauls in 20 percent higher 3Q profit
2013-10-23 20:02:22| Railroads - Topix.net
Norfolk Southern's third-quarter profit surged 20 percent despite weak coal deliveries thanks to rising volumes and rate increases elsewhere.
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US carbon dioxide emissions drop 3.8 percent
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A mild winter, new car efficiency standards and the continued switch from power plants run by coal to those fueled by natural gas, a cleaner-burning fuel, were behind a 3.8-percent drop in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2012, announced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration Monday (Oct. 21). The drop was the second largest since 1990, beat out by the drop of 7.1 percent in 2009, which was attributed in large part to the recession that hit the country that year. Emissions have dropped...
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Area new-vehicle sales increased 7 percent last month
2013-10-22 02:57:30| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Sales of new cars and trucks increased 7 percent in September in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, maintaining months of local sales gains.
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Tablets shipments to mushroom by 53 percent in 2013
2013-10-21 18:34:35| InfoWorld: Top News
Tablets shipments will blast ahead by 53 percent in 2013 as desktop and laptop shipments decline by 11 percent, research firm Gartner forecast on Monday. The emergence of ultramobile devices, which marries a PC with the form factor of a tablet, will help ease the declines in other PCs, but not by much. When ultramobiles are included, the overall PC market will still decline 8.4 percent in 2013, Gartner said.
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