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This country is embracing coal while the rest of the world is trying to cut emissions
2016-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Scotland just closed its last coal-fired power plant. England said it will be coal-free in the next decade. The United States has the Clean Power Plan, which doesn`t exactly end coal, but it puts a pretty hefty damper on it. Even China has made a series of announcements signaling they are dropping coal. Japan, on the other hand, is planning to build 45 domestic coal plants, and the Japanese foreign investment bank is considering financing a massive project in Indonesia. As host of the next G7...
On Your Side: Man says car dealer gave him the runaround while trying to return a lemon
2015-11-10 04:37:57| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
When Dale Jones bought a 2012 black Nissan Sentra it looked good on the outside but under the hood, well, that's another story. "When you raise the hood it had the wrong bar to hold the hood up.
Student debt is at a record high, and this company is cashing in by trying to help
2015-09-08 17:46:38| IT Services - Topix.net
The New York-based firm announced on September 8 that it has taken on another $35 million in the form of a Series B round of funding. The startup is also adding a new member to its board: Hans Morris, a former executive with Citigroup and ex-President of Visa who is now a partner with venture firm Nyca Partners .
Sublease tsunami: Gymboree, Del Monte and 10 other S.F. offices trying to fill up
2015-05-28 15:58:10| Food - Topix.net
What do technology companies Salesforce , Microsoft and Square have in common with some of San Francisco's traditional companies like Charles Schwab , Del Monte Foods and Gymboree? They're all looking to find takers for their empty office spaces. The amount of sublease space in San Francisco is about to hit about 1.7 million square feet, the most since 2009, as I reported yesterday .
At Least They're Trying
2014-11-17 21:13:36| Beverages - Topix.net
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention,1 the rate of obesity has substantially increased for both children and adolescents in the past thirty years. In 1980, 7% of children between the ages of six and eleven were obese.