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AutoNation CEO Gives Feds Failing Grade In Handling Of Recalls

2014-11-12 18:15:58| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

DETROIT - The nation's top car dealer says he would give a failing grade to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for its handling of major recalls this year. "The information on their sites has been confusing," said AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson, about the recall of cars with faulty airbags.

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World governments failing Earth's ecosystems, says top conservationist

2014-11-09 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Governments are lagging behind on international commitments to safeguard the planets ecosystems, with politicians failing to grasp that economic growth depends upon environmental protection, the head of the worlds leading conservation organisation has warned. Julia Marton-Lefvre, director general of the IUCN, the body that advises the United Nations on environmental matters, told Guardian Australia that conservation needed to be properly embraced by political leaders. I think world leaders...

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Protected Areas Failing Earth Vulnerable Animals, Plants

2014-11-05 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: The Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages New York City`s zoos and aquarium plus 200 million acres of protected lands around the world, today sounded the alarm that the world`s protected areas are not fully protecting the imperiled animals and plants within their borders due to lack of funding and political commitment. In a new study, "The performance and potential of protected areas," published today in the journal "Nature," experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University...

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Church of England failing to heed call to divest from fossil fuels

2014-11-04 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Church of England (CoE) is failing to heed the advice of Desmond Tutu to pull its investments out of fossil fuels, according to Bill McKibben, one of the worlds top climate activists. The retired Anglican Archbishop of South Africa said in April that organisations should divest from coal, gas and oil companies, a call he later reiterated when he said the divestment campaign was a moral movement to persuade fossil fuel companies away from a business model that threatens our very survival....

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