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Climate Change Concerns Push Chile to Forefront of Carbon Tax Movement
2014-10-29 13:07:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: These are rough times for carbon taxes, aimed at mitigating climate change. Australia recently repealed its carbon tax. South Korea delayed a carbon-based tax on vehicle emissions. South Africa put off a planned carbon tax until 2016. And yet, for environmentalists, a sliver of hope exists in the shape of Chile, one of Latin Americas fastest-growing economies, which last month approved the first carbon tax in South America. The measure, due to take effect in 2018, was part of a broad overhaul of...
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Secretive, unblockable Verizon perma-cookies kick up privacy concerns
2014-10-29 01:01:59| Wireless - Topix.net
Verizon Wireless has kicked up something of a privacy scandal in recent days over how it tampers with user's web traffic sent via the company's wireless network. Hoping to cash in on lucrative advertising dollars from mobile devices, Verizon inserts a unique string of letters and numbers into individual users' HTTP requests that can be used to identify a specific device.
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Japan's Sendai nuclear plant gets all-clear to restart despite volcanic eruption concerns
2014-10-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
The municipal assembly of the Japanese town Satsumasendai has approved the plan for restarting the Sendai nuclear plant.
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AGC Survey Cites Worse Shortages and Added Quality Concerns
2014-10-29 00:06:22| ENR.com: Headline News
About 86% of Southern state respondents, mostly nonunion, report problems in finding adequately skilled craft workers.
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Auto Sales Rise in October but Pricing Outlook Concerns Ford and GM
2014-10-28 12:57:22| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
NEW YORK -- October has been a choppy month for stock markets, but for auto sales -- another key economic indicator -- a long-term recovery keeps rolling along even as concerns about excessive incentives and unsustainable pricing levels mount. Forecasters predict sales growth of 5% to 6% from the same month a year earlier, and LMC Automotive forecasts total 2014 light-vehicle sales of 16.4 million.
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