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China vows to tackle air pollution
2013-09-12 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China has revealed sweeping measures to tackle air pollution, with plans to close old polluting steel mills, cement factories and aluminium smelters, and slash coal consumption and boost the use of nuclear power and natural gas. China has been under heavy pressure to address air pollution after thick and hazardous smog engulfed much of the industrial north, including the capital, Beijing, in January. It has identified coal burning as a key area to tackle. China said its new plan would aim to...
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China sets national coal use target tackle air pollution
2013-09-12 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will aim to cut total coal consumption to below 65 percent of total primary energy use by 2017 as part of a comprehensive new plan to tackle air pollution, the government said on Thursday. China will also stop approving new thermal power plants in key industrial areas such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the north and the Yangtze and Pearl River delta regions in the east and southeast. In a notice posted on its official website (www.gov.cn), the Chinese government said it would...
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Utility Program to Tackle Big Data Challenges
2013-09-11 21:25:00| Transmission & Distribution World
GE has launched its Grid IQ Insight Innovative Utility Program (IUP) to focus on combining ideas and sharing expertise in big data, visualization and advanced analytics specific to distribution, transmission, customer service and consumer-related operations. read more
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Breaking: MEPs vote tackle biofuel emissions from 2020
2013-09-11 13:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: MEPs have today approved a cap on the production of food crop-based biofuels and backed plans to measure indirect emissions from 2020. A European Parliament vote in Strasbourg confirmed fuels derived from food crops such as wheat, corn, or sugar cannot contribute more than six per cent towards the bloc's 2020 goal of sourcing 10 per cent of transport energy from renewable sources. MEPs also backed a 2.5 per cent share for advanced biofuels, which are derived from feedstocks such as algae or waste....
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How to tackle real estate's most problematic communication barriers
2013-09-10 17:16:47| Real Estate - Topix.net
Communication is at the center of real estate. While it is crucial for the success of any transaction - from a traditional resale to a short sale - proper communication is almost never achieved without facing major obstacles.
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