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Hotter summers mean more health risks in urban heat islands
2013-10-02 15:35:48| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: On hot summer days, 74-year-old HelenRuth Stephens doesn`t dare leave her apartment. Not to get the mail or take out the trash. "You don`t do it because you`ll be breathless by the time you get back," she says. She suffers from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Both affect her lungs. Hot weather drains her energy, she says, and makes it hard for her to breathe. Stephens is the type of person public health officials worry about as they`re preparing for climate change. That`s...
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CSX Corp: Weighing Efficiency Against Risks
2013-10-01 02:03:17| Railroads - Topix.net
In true monopoly board game fashion, CSX Corporation - based in Jacksonville, FL - is one of the nation's leading transportation suppliers .
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Northrop Grumman Recognized For Reducing Carbon Emissions And Mitigating The Risks Of Climate Change By CDP
2013-09-30 03:05:39| pollutiononline Home Page
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been recognized as a leader for the company's actions to reduce carbon emissions, mitigate the risks of climate change and for the quality of its climate change data by CDP on two of its listings
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Climate change stars fade, even if risks rise
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Compared to the heady days in 2007 when U.S. climate campaigner Al Gore and the U.N.'s panel of climate scientists shared the Nobel Peace Prize, the risks of global warming may be greater but the stars preaching the message have faded. With many governments focused on tackling short-term economic growth, the shift reinforces what former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sometimes called a "shocking lack of leadership" in confronting long-term global warming. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental...
Boom in Unregulated Gas Pipelines Posing New Risks
2013-09-26 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Thousands of miles of pipelines are being built at natural gas drilling sites throughout the nation without supervision or regulation by state or federal authorities. These specialized pipelines, known as gathering lines, carry gas from wells to nearby separation facilities for processing. Many of the pipes are as large as regulated pipelines and operate at the same or higher pressures. Some run close to homes and businesses. Of the nation's 240,000 miles of gathering lines [3], only about...
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