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Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters
2013-10-25 07:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones. He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer...
Investors demand fossil fuel giants assess climate risks
2013-10-25 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A group of 70 investors controlling more than $3trn in assets yesterday opened a new front in the battle to get fossil fuel companies to fully assess the climate risks they face, revealing that they have written to 45 fossil fuel and energy companies requesting detailed information on the "financial risks that climate change poses to their business plans". Dubbed the Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative and orchestrated by the Ceres group of responsible investors and the Carbon Tracker Initiative,...
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Akamai warns of risks after windfall from Apple
2013-10-24 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Content delivery specialist's contract with its largest customer is up for renewal.
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New NIST cybersecurity standards could pose liability risks
2013-10-11 17:06:50| InfoWorld: Top News
Critical infrastructure companies could face new liability risks if they fail to meet voluntary cyber security standards being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The slated release of a draft of the standard on Thursday was delayed, apparently due to the federal government shutdown. NIST's main website was shuttered on Thursday.
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KPMG Survey: Construction Executives See Growth, But Risks Lie Ahead
2013-10-09 17:42:55| ENR.com: Headline News
A continuing surge of power industry projects is fueling increased optimism among construction execs, says a recent survey by KPMG International.
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