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Australia pledges more cash to battle reef starfish
2013-07-18 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia pledged another Aus$5 million (US$4.6 million) to the fight against a predatory starfish devastating the iconic Great Barrier Reef Thursday, revealing 100,000 of the creatures had been wiped out so far. Environment Minister Mark Butler said the new funding, on top of Aus$2.53 million already pledged, would support a programme of culling the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish, which is naturally-occurring but has proliferated due to pollution and run-off. A major study of the reef's...
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Barclays pledges to fight US energy fine
2013-07-17 11:23:47| Energy - Topix.net
Barclays, one of Britain's largest banks, is vowing to defend itself against U.S. allegations that it manipulated the electricity prices in California and other western states to make money.
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BANGLADESH: Japan pledges $13m fund for factory upgrades
2013-07-12 14:07:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Funds worth nearly US$13m (BDT1.0bn) are to be made available to help Bangladesh ready-made garment manufacturers improve factory safety.
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US government pledges US$9.7 million for Maldives climate change adaptation, election preparations
2013-07-09 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minivan: The United States government has pledged US$9.7 million (MVR 149 million) to the Maldives as technical assistance for climate change adaptation and election preparations. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two nations was signed yesterday afternoon (July 7) by the Maldives Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-large Abdul Azeez Yoosuf and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Mission Director Todd Sorenson. The United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and...
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Carson Pledges Support for "Modern-Day Sharecroppers"
2013-07-03 22:40:12| Trucking - Topix.net
The trucking industry likes to say, "If you have it, a truck brought it." The industry's point is that trucking is an essential and ubiquitous part of our economy.
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