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Bowie pledges nearly $1 million to secure Marketplace redevelopment
2014-11-19 17:22:09| Grocery - Topix.net
After more than two decades, a nearly-vacant shopping center near Bowie High School is set to be demolished and redeveloped into a high-end residential complex and shopping center. The project hinges on a deal between Rockville-based property owner Berman Enterprises and Harris Teeter, which will serve as the critical “grocery anchor” store, and the city of Bowie pledged nearly $1 million Monday night to ensure the deal goes through.
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Current climate pledges not enough: UN
2014-11-19 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pollution is still rising despite world pledges to cut carbon emissions and more action is needed to rein in climate change, a UN report says. The Emissions Gap report is the fifth yearly analysis that examines how countries are doing and lays out the path toward keeping the average rise in global temperature below two degrees Celsius over the next century. The report by the UN Environment Program and the World Resources Institute said the planet must aim for global carbon neutrality by mid-to-late...
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Obama Pledges US$3 Billion New Green Climate Fund
2014-11-17 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The United States will contribute up to US$3 billion to the Green Climate Fund to help developing countries respond to climate change, and Japan will give up to US$1.5 billion, the leaders of both nations announced at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia on the weekend. "Along with the other nations that have pledged support, this gives us the opportunity to help vulnerable communities with an early warning system, with stronger defences against storm surge, climate resilient infrastructure,...
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U.S. and China Announce Historic Emissions Reduction Pledges
2014-11-12 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In what could prove to be a momentum-setting piece of diplomacy, the United States and China which together account for a third of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions jointly announced plans to pursue significant cuts in those emissions over the coming 10 to 15 years. Among the details of the joint pledges, unveiled as part of meetings this week between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama in Beijing, were commitments from the U.S. to cut its CO2 emissions by between...
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Nissan Pledges Further Expansion Of MS Plant
2014-11-05 22:40:46| Automakers - Topix.net
Nissan Motor Co. says it wants to produce more than 500,000 vehicles at its Mississippi plant by 2017, an expansion that would add about 1,000 employees to the current 6,300 workers at the complex.
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