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Managing the Legal Risks of Vehicle Safety Technologies
2014-09-28 21:12:54| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Every company whose business depends upon large industrial vehicle fleets is worried about vehicle accidents. Although the business cost of accidents is substantial, it is the risk of lawsuits and punitive damages that keeps many fleet and risk managers up at nights. One need only drive down the interstate and count the number of billboards advertising plaintiffs attorneys and trucking accidents to have that idea reinforced. This comprehensive white paper, presented by Houston legal firm Alaniz Schraeder Linker Farries Mayes, answers this question: How does a company balance the need to implement adequate levels of vehicle safety technology to avoid a negligence finding while still trying to maintain business and operational efficiencies? Download the white paper to learn how you can build a Safety Technology Integration Plan. The Article Managing the Legal Risks of Vehicle Safety Technologies appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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U.S. Homeland Security Moves to Tackle Climate Change Risks
2014-09-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Protecting the infrastructure of American cities from the effects of climate change is rising on the agenda of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a top agency official. "Increasingly, we've moved not only from a security focus to a resiliency focus," said Caitlin Durkovich, assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at Homeland Security, an agency better known for its fight to curb terrorist threats. Durkovich spoke Thursday on a panel at the Rising Seas Summit, a three-day...
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Do Americans Appreciate Climate Change Risks?
2014-09-25 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A trio of senior environmental officials from local and federal government yesterday offered its views on how the average American might need to get a better grasp of the risks posed by climate change. Speaking here during a conference on rising seas, the officials were pressed by a moderator from the Association of Climate Change Officers to discuss how they tend to approach widespread ambivalence or downright ignorance about global warming. Explaining the executive federal view was Alice...
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Pakistan: National agricultural economy facing climate change risks
2014-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Times: Senior Environmental experts said on Wednesday that national agricultural economy was being affected by five major risks related to climate change. Talking to APP senior researcher, Kashif Salik working with Sustainable Policy Development Institute (SDPI) said that being a predominantly agricultural economy, climate change is estimated to decrease crop yields in Pakistan not only as a result of flooding, but also as a result of changing temperatures, which in turn will affect livelihoods and food...
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Panel sees risks ahead for Texas' fast growth rate
2014-09-24 04:32:15| Paper - Topix.net
A panel of three North Texas business leaders and an economist say consumer changes, demographic shifts and other factors could slow Texas' fast pace of growth. "The Texas economy grew really robustly this year through August," Mine YA1 4cel, director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said Tuesday.
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