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Diesel truck enthusiasts roll coal protest environment regulation
2014-07-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Craig Wedge floors his pickup and the souped-up diesel engine of his Ford F-350 Power Stroke rumbles like a muscle car, blasting black smoke through an unfiltered exhaust pipe. He and other diesel enthusiasts call this burst of unburned fuel rolling coal; for many of them, it is an act of protest against environmental regulations. In defiance of the law, coal rollers disable or discard their trucks pollution controls and modify their engines to maximize power and blow smoke with the flip of a...
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'Biggest' Market Basket protest planned Friday
2014-07-24 13:14:16| Trucking - Topix.net
Market Basket workers will hold what organizers hope is their "biggest and final" rally tomorrow, but are prepared to continue protests should the grocery chain's board not heed their calls to reinstate former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
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Hundreds of postal workers protest at Chicago Stap...
2014-07-23 03:44:28| Air Courier - Topix.net
Hundreds of postal workers from around the country protested outside a Staples store in downtown Chicago on Tuesday over a program that allows postal services to be sold at more than 80 Staples retail outlets.
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Activists say arrests made in protest at Utah tar sands mine project
2014-07-22 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sheriff's deputies in Utah arrested nearly two dozen environmental protesters who chained themselves to fences and construction equipment on Monday at a tar sands mining project in the remote Book Cliffs mountains, an activist group said. The Tar Sands Resistance group said about 80 activists set up a "blockade" at the PR Springs mine to highlight what it said would be huge environmental damage if it goes ahead. "These projects do nothing but devastate the land and pollute the water and air,"...
Market Basket supervisor is fired, protest organizer says
2014-07-20 22:10:46| Grocery - Topix.net
Market Basket officials have fired a warehouse supervisor who encouraged his staff to abandon their posts - effectively hobbling product deliveries to stores - as part of a larger protest workers are staging in support of ousted president Arthur T. Demoulas.
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