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Beer Institute welcomes US tax change for small brewers
2014-10-03 13:16:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
A move by the US government to simplify excise tax regulations for small brewers has been welcomed by the Beer Institute.
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Trying To Fight Climate Change Without Admitting We Are To Blame
2014-10-02 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: We`re all familiar with climate deniers - the politicians who proudly declare that 97 percent of climate scientists are wrong, and human carbon emissions aren`t driving up global temperatures to a potentially catastrophic degree. Opposing them are what Grist`s David Roberts termed "climate hawks" - people who think climate change is real, it`s extremely dangerous, and civilization`s use of fossil fuels is behind most of it. But in between, a strange twilight figure has risen for whom there is...
Climate Change Bigger Health Emergency Than Ebola
2014-10-02 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Ebola may be more dramatic, but climate change is a bigger threat to public health. That`s the conclusion of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, publishing since 1840. This week it ran an editorial calling on the UN`s World Health Organization (WHO) to declare climate change a public health emergency. "Deaths from Ebola infection, tragic and frightening though they are, will pale into insignificance when compared with the mayhem we can expect for our children...
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Unions sue Stora Enso Kvarnsveden and SFIF in Sweden over shift change
2014-10-02 16:16:24| Paper - Topix.net
The Swedish paper workers' union Pappers and its local chapter are suing Stora Enso Kvarnsveden and the employer organization the Swedish Forest Industries Federation for allegedly breaking the collective agreement in connection to the increase in shifts at the Kvarnsveden mill in Sweden. The unions want Stora Enso Kvarnsveden and the SFIF to, respectively, pay SEK 1 million as well as interest in general damages to both Pappers and its local chapter.
Indias Resistance to Climate Change Gives Way to Deal
2014-10-02 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fiscal Times: Environmentalists were alarmed a week ago by an interview Indias new environment minister gave to The New York Times, as it seemed to deal a serious blow to U.S. efforts to secure an international agreement on combating global warming. Prakash Javadekar, the Indian official, declared his governments first priority was to alleviate poverty and vastly improve his nations economy, which he said would necessarily involve an increase in emissions through new coal-powered electricity and transportation....
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