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Apple, Google reach patent truce
2014-05-19 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Companies agree to drop ongoing lawsuits but do not agree cross-licensing deal for each other's tech.
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Volkswagen and Greenpeace Make Truce over CO2 Reduction Targets
2013-04-16 04:33:06| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
SITUATION: If youre a global automaker like Volkswagen and theres an environmental activist group that goes after you, youd prefer it not to be Greenpeace Its one thing to get an angry letter or see a critical media announcement about your failure to reduce carbon emissions With Greenpeace, you never know what theyre going to do just ask fishing boat owners in Japan or Korea Or Shell, which last year saw shutdown at 74 of its petrol stations in the UK by Greenpeace activists dressed up as emergency workers closing off the facilities SIGNIFICANCE: Volkswagen has come to terms with its own CO2 reduction targets for its fleet in alignment with Greenpeace and the European Union The automaker has been tweaked by Greenpeace, through the activist groups videos lampooning Volkswagens Star Wars themed popular commercial But both sides have made nice with chief executives meeting recently and wrapping up about two years of conversations some of them very heated Read all about Volkswagens thinking on bypassing Toyota and becoming the greenest global automakerThe Article Volkswagen and Greenpeace Make Truce over CO2 Reduction Targets appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Environmentalists, Drillers Reach 'Truce' For Fracking Standards
2013-03-22 07:51:37| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A group of environmentalists and drilling companies has crafted a truce of sorts over the rapid spread of natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin.
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Drilling Companies Hope Fracking 'Truce' Will Ease Relationship With Environmentalists
2013-03-21 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A group of environmentalists and drilling companies has crafted a truce of sorts over the rapid spread of natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin. Four major drilling companies and several environmental groups have agreed on 15 voluntary standards for cleaner drilling practices. The practices of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing - when companies inject water laced with chemicals deep underground to split open rock formations and get the gas to flow faster - are transforming...
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Brookfield, Pershing Square call truce in battle over General Growth Properties
2013-01-03 21:44:27| Real Estate - Topix.net
Brookfield Asset Management and Pershing Square have signed a four-year truce in their dispute over General Growth Properties , owner-operator of regional shopping malls in 41 states.
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