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Buffett's BNSF helped lead fight to delay train safety technology
2015-11-04 14:44:44| Railroads - Topix.net
When an Amtrak passenger train derailed in Philadelphia in May, killing eight people and injuring scores more, the railroad industry's campaign to delay a Dec. 31 deadline to install technology to prevent such disasters appeared to be finished. Not, as it turned out, if billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, had anything to do with it.
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Germany sees VW scandal might lead to new clean options
2015-11-04 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) emissions cheating scandal could force German carmakers to come up with new and better ways to build more climate-friendly vehicles, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Deputy Environment Minister Jochen Flasbarth said he did not believe the scandal had damaged Germany's image as a leader in environmental protection ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris in December. Climate talks in recent weeks had not been negatively impacted by the revelations that...
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1st 'outsider' to lead retailer LL Bean
2015-11-04 03:45:45| Apparel - Topix.net
Outdoors retailer L.L. Bean is going outside the company for the first time in its 103-year history for its new CEO, tapping the chief merchandising and marketing officer of a Chinese e-commerce business, officials said Tuesday. Chairman Shawn Gorman made the announcement to workers in a memo, telling them the L.L. Bean family and board unanimously agreed to hire Stephen Smith from Chinese online grocer Yihaodian.
SDG&E Customers Lead The Way In Rooftop Solar
2015-11-03 15:28:00| Transmission & Distribution World
San Diego Gas & Electric shared its progress connecting customers with rooftop solar in a California Public Utilities Commission-hosted public workshop on the Net Energy Metering program. read more
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Cities, not nations, lead fight against climate change
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South China Morning Post: It is cities, not nations, that will play a bigger role in preventing the worlds temperatures from rising more than two degrees following landmark climate talks in Paris, according to an official from a global network on climate change. Government leaders and representatives from around the world will meet in the French capital at the end of this month and into December with hopes of producing a legally binding agreement to cap global warming. The mayors of the world are those in the best...
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