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New Acting Chair Champions FCC's Spectrum Efforts
2013-05-22 01:34:44| PC Magazine Wireless Networking Product Guide
The Federal Communications Commission is "moving full speed ahead" to make more spectrum available, Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn assured the wireless industry during a keynote speech Tuesday at CTIA in Las Vegas.
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Acting FCC Chairwoman: We're still focused on spectrum
2013-05-21 19:41:39| CNET News.com
Mignon Clyburn, who recently took over as interim chairwoman, said leadership transition will not slow down agency's efforts. [Read more]
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Governments And Oil Firms Aren't Acting Like Climate Change Is A Problem
2013-05-05 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: MARKETS can misprice risk, as investors in subprime mortgages discovered in 2008. Several recent reports suggest that markets are now overlooking the risk of "unburnable carbon". The share prices of oil, gas and coal companies depend in part on their reserves. The more fossil fuels a firm has underground, the more valuable its shares. But what if some of those reserves can never be dug up and burned? If governments were determined to implement their climate policies, a lot of that carbon would...
Acting EPA chief warns staff of furloughs
2013-02-26 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The acting head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned staff on Tuesday that it may place an unspecified number of jobs on temporary furlough if across-the-board federal budget cuts take effect at the end of this week. Bob Perciasepe, acting administrator of the EPA, wrote in an email that despite taking early measures to cut agency spending on contracts, grants and administration in recent months, furloughs are inevitable. "Even with these actions, the arbitrary nature of...
Food giants 'not acting ethically'
2013-02-26 03:28:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The world's largest food companies are failing to meet ethical standards and are instead profiting from a broken system, a report by charity Oxfam says.
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