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Climate Action After Paris: Not the Yellow Brick Road
2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "Follow the yellow brick road". So Dorothy is told in the classic 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz. Alas, if the world's economies only had such a clear and singular path to follow subsequent to the recent promising Paris Climate Accord. While the accord has raised hopes that government leaders are serious about reversing climate change, in reality, the path forward is probably more like a vast river with multiple tributaries that merge before powering toward the sea. To significantly reduce our carbon...
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The Effect of Justice Scalia's Death on Supreme Court Class Action Rulings
2016-03-02 13:37:21| Food - Topix.net
Dow Chemical Co.' s agreement to pay $835 million to settle a price-fixing dispute provides evidence that Justice Antonin Scalia's death is a blow to businesses that have had success recently in challenging class action cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Union Pacific workers file class action Americans With Disabilities Act complaint against railroad
2016-03-01 20:55:10| Railroads - Topix.net
SEATTLE, Wash. - On February 19, 2016, six current and former employees of Union Pacific Railroad Company filed a class action lawsuit in the Western District of Washington at Seattle , asserting that Union Pacific engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act , 42 U.S.C 12101 et seq.
AAFA forms footwear action committee
2016-03-01 12:56:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) is to set up a Footwear Action Committee to develop and implement information, policies, programmes and initiatives for AAFA members who make, distribute, and sell shoes.
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Government told to take action on air pollution or face legal challenge
2016-03-01 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: The government must take steps to tackle air pollution within days or face further legal action, it has been warned. Environmental law firm ClientEarth has sent a final warning letter to environment secretary, Liz Truss, giving her 10 days to act or face action in the high court. The group, which won a ruling against the government in the supreme court over its failures on air pollution last year, says the environment departments (Defra) recently published plans to cut pollutants fall woefully...
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