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Plan Bay Area: Controversy Swirls Around Ambitious California Attempt To Combat Climate Change

2013-05-26 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Marin Independent: The Bay Area will be spewing an additional 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2040 if opponents of a new long-range land-use blueprint for the Bay Area get their way. That estimate -- the equivalent of burning 20,456 tanker trucks of gasoline or 6,664 rail cars of coal -- comes from the environmental impact report for Plan Bay Area, a long-range housing blueprint that has ignited controversy in Marin. A collaboration of four regional government agencies, Plan Bay Area was...

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Urban Outfitters controversy: Syringe and pill bottle-like shot glasses 'risky'

2013-05-09 06:01:43| Apparel - Topix.net

An Urban Outfitters controversy has quite a few people taking part in a heated debate over the choice of the well-known U.S. clothing chain selling shot glasses that look like syringes and pill bottles, The Epoch Times reported this Wednesday, May 8. According to the report, partners at Drugfree.org are already hard at work on a campaign to put an ... (more)

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Oregonian: Sit-lie controversy reignites as state legislation progresses, 4/26/13

2013-04-28 00:24:37| PortlandOnline

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RBC chief 'listening' after foreign worker controversy

2013-04-12 19:25:11| IT Services - Topix.net

Royal Bank of Canada CEO Gord Nixon says all employees affected by a recent move to outsource their jobs will be offered 'comparable job opportunities' within the bank.

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