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The Urgency of Work Truck Transport
2014-03-24 16:47:24| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
AmeriFleet's Work Truck Transport brings the company's expertise in automobile and SUV relocation to the work truck industry safely and responsibly, making sure that vehicles are turnkey-ready. The Article The Urgency of Work Truck Transport appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Climate-change response demands urgency
2014-01-04 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: JUST HOW much will the Earth heat up over the next 100 or 200 years? Climate scientists are not able to predict with high certainty. They have estimated that average global temperatures will increase by 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius -- 2.7 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit -- given a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That range of estimates for "climate sensitivity' would mean the difference between relatively small effects and significant consequences for human welfare. There are skeptics...
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Pace of global warming adds urgency to change
2013-12-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: President Obama made another modest attempt to do something about climate change last week by ordering federal agencies to more than double their use of renewable energy by 2020. The operative word is modest. There is no hope of doing something truly transformational to meet the No. 1 challenge of our times in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, where deference to consumer fear, dubious science and the clout of Big Oil continues to rule the day. The contrast between Washington's...
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Lac Megantic disaster reveals urgency of improving safety of rail cars
2013-10-15 01:45:00| Railroads - Topix.net
The DOT-111 tank car, as pictured at Union Pacific's Englewood Yard in Houston, Texas, makes up a significant percentage of both the Canadian and American rail fleet.
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Obama climate plan sounds good, but needs urgency
2013-07-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTPost: Much of President Obama's comprehensive new Climate Action Plan and energy policy is admirable and high-minded, but the eloquence masks some darker unspoken truths. The climate plan begins, ". . . we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave them a planet that is not polluted and damaged." The speech then echoes this theme. We must act now, "as caretakers of the future," on behalf of "our children and our children's children." The president graphically depicts the price Americans are...
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