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Federal Bill to Possibly Change Break Times for Truck Drivers
2016-03-30 13:22:47| Trucking - Topix.net
A new federal bill may pump the breaks on allowing states to impose laws for the trucking industry. Officials with the American trucking association says the point of the bill is to have truck drivers all following national rules rather than state to state, but some wonder if the breaks on the national level are enough.
British health systems 'unprepared for devastating effects of climate change'
2016-03-30 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: British health systems are unprepared for the devastating effects of climate change, leading health bodies have warned. As extreme weather events such as flooding or heatwaves become more common, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change urged ministers not to wait for disaster before acting. The new alliance, made up of leading health bodies including royal colleges, medical faculties, medical publications and doctors organisations, called on the government to be properly prepared. ...
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More States Are Investigating Whether Exxon Misled the Public About Climate Change
2016-03-30 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an inquiry in November. The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Tuesday they will investigate whether Exxon Mobil Corp misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Earl Walker announced their probes at a news conference in New York, flanked by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, former...
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Tonga policy aims to build climate change resilience by 2035
2016-03-30 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Matangi: An ambitious National Climate Change Policy to build a Resilient Tonga by 2035 was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Climate Change, Hon. Siaosi Sovaleni in February. The policy aims for 100% renewable energy, and includes a mulititude of other goals that check boxes such as gender considerations and equity for disadvantaged groups, along with designing Category 5 cyclone resistant homes. He admitted that to aim for a Resilient Tonga by 2035 is an ambitious and a costly...
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Climate change now bigger menace forest loss for snowshoe hares
2016-03-30 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceNews: For Wisconsins snowshoe hares, climate change now ranks as an even bigger menace than the bulldozing, paving and other destructive things people have done to northern forests. Habitat loss as humans reshape landscapes has loomed for decades as the main conservation problem for a lot of wildlife. Its still important, says climate change ecologist Benjamin Zuckerberg of the University of Wisconsin?Madison. But along the southern boundary of the snowshoe hares range, climate change bringing skimpy...
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