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9th Circuit Splits with 4th, 5th Circuits, Finds Auto Dealer Service Advisors Not Exempt Under FLSA
2015-04-15 18:17:46| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Reversing a district court decision, and declining to follow decisions from a number of other courts, including the Fourth and Fifth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit has deferred to the Department of Labor's "flip-flopped" view of whether the FLSA's exemption for "any salesman, partsman, or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles," applies to auto dealer service advisors/service writers. The decision comes on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision in Perez v.
US finds first case of lethal bird flu in commercial chicken flock
2015-04-14 17:10:42| Food - Topix.net
A flock of 200,000 hens in Wisconsin is the first commercial U.S. chicken operation to become infected with a lethal strain of bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, widening the impact of a virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of turkeys this year. The chickens were at an egg-laying facility in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, between Madison and Milwaukee, and represented the state's first case of the H5N2 flu, according to the Agriculture Department.
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Canada Could Lose 70 Percent of Glaciers by End of Century, Study Finds
2015-04-14 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: British Columbia and Alberta could lose 70 percent of their glaciers by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for local ecosystems, power supplies, and water quality, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. Wetter coastal mountain regions in northwestern British Columbia are expected to lose about half of their glacial volume, the researchers found, but the Rocky Mountains, in the drier interior portion of Canada, could lose 90 percent of their glaciers. Soon our mountains could...
MIT team finds chemical functionalization can lead to efficient graphene-based thermoelectric materials
2015-04-14 13:55:33| Green Car Congress
Audit finds problems in pipe oversight after deadly blast
2015-04-14 00:24:01| Energy - Topix.net
The state-commissioned audit of California's Public Utilities Commission comes after federal investigators faulted the regulatory board and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in a 2010 explosion that killed eight people in suburban San Francisco.
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