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America's Tiny Four Corners Region Is an Outsized Methane Hotspot
2014-10-10 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: One small spot in the U.S. Southwest is the surprising producer of the largest concentration of methane gas seen across the nation. Levels of methane over the Four Corners region are more than triple the standard ground-based estimate of the greenhouse gas, reports a joint study of satellite data by scientists at NASA and the University of Michigan. Methane is a heat-trapping gas whose increasing quantities in the atmosphere have fueled concerns about global climate change. The methane "hotspot,'...
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America's thirst for wine is insatiable
2014-10-08 10:34:41| Beverages - Topix.net
Wine industry executives are worried about the growing interest in craft beer and spirits from America's 20- and 30-somethings. That's one takeaway from a fascinating new survey of the wine industry's top executives by Robert Smiley, dean and professor emeritus at the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management.
Why is Americas E Waste Headed to Ghana?
2014-10-02 00:22:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/">Before Its News</a> While many industrial nations prohibit the shipping of hazardous e waste, the United States does not. As such, more than 25% of our e waste ends up in places like Agbogbloshie, an e waste dump near Accra, Ghana where workers recycle them by smashing them with rocks to get at the component parts. Content Classification: Curated read more
Resiliency: How Superstorm Sandy changed America's grid
2014-10-01 23:33:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Superstorm Sandy provided a painful lesson on how utilities must prepare for the widely predicted surge in large-scale disasters read more
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Omron Opens Americas Headquarters In Chicago
2014-10-01 07:44:00| Chemical Processing
Omron opened its Americas headquarters in Hoffman Estates, IL.
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