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Westar Energy retirees' benefits to change
2014-08-29 21:55:20| Energy - Topix.net
Westar Energy is notifying many of its retired employees that they will have to find their own Medicare supplemental plans beginning Jan. 1, rather than receiving group coverage through the company.
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Climate Change Has an Outrage Problem
2014-08-29 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: In the years to come, its not a stretch to imagine millions of people flooding the streets to protest--flooding in the streets. What will it take to turn climate change into a social movement? The struggles surrounding womens suffrage, civil rights, the Vietnam War, South African Apartheid, the Arab Spring, and gay marriage were pervasive. They changed history. These movements had very visible leaders. They also had a role in shaping popular culture, with iconic music and movies. In hindsight,...
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UN seeks 'Malala' on climate change
2014-08-29 07:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Five hundred people are to learn if they have won the chance to vent their frustration at world leaders over the stalemate on climate policy. They applied to address more than 100 heads of state and government at next month's UN climate summit in New York. Many of the candidates are established climate campaigners; they span 115 countries and include victims of natural disasters like Typhoon Haiyan. Just one winner will be chosen to speak at the plenary session. The rules stipulate that...
Urgency of Climate Change to Debut as Legal Defense
2014-08-28 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As protests go, Ken Ward's and Jay O'Hara's daylong blockade of a coal delivery was low-key. There were no kerfuffles involving authorities and nobody was arrested -- the men learned of criminal charges later by mail. But the duo's trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 8 in a Massachusetts district court, is shaping up as a high-profile affair, featuring an unusual defense and planned testimony by some of the biggest names in climate science. The men's attorneys are planning to deploy a novel strategy....
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Climate change poses growing health threat
2014-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Climate change poses a growing health threat, the UN warned on Wednesday, saying extreme weather and rising temperatures could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and spread disease. "Climate change is no longer only an environmental issue," said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, head of the climate change team at the World Health Organisation (WHO). The UN agency on Wednesday began a three-day conference at its Geneva base, folding together climate and health issues. The goal is to put health in the...
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