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Sauce firm defends 'once a week' advice

2016-04-15 18:54:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Food giant Mars, which makes Dolmio and Uncle Ben's sauces, defends its advice that some products should only be consumed once a week due to high salt, sugar or fat content.

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Obama admin defends climate rule as 'eminently reasonable'

2016-03-29 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: Lawyers for the Obama administration defended its controversial landmark climate rule for power plants in court Monday as a completely reasonable interpretation of the authority Congress gave it. The Justice Department is trying to answer complaints in a federal appeals court that accuse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of violating the plain letter of the Clean Air Act last year when it made final the carbon dioxide regulation for power plants. In their opening volley last month against...

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Former EPA official defends actions on Flint water crisis

2016-03-15 16:46:30| Waste Management - Topix.net

The state-appointed emergency manager who oversaw Flint, Michigan when its water source was switched to the Flint River says he was "grossly misled" by state and federal experts who never told him that lead was leaching into the city's water supply. Darnell Earley says in prepared testimony for the first of two congressional hearings that he was overwhelmed by challenges facing the impoverished city and relied on experts from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to advise him.

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Hedgepeth Defends Greensward Action, Conservancy Moves to Mediation

2016-03-04 20:30:37| Air Courier - Topix.net

Memphis City Council member Reid Hedgepeth says the body's Tuesday, March 1, vote to give the Memphis Zoo control of part of the Overton Park Greensward was an attempt to "rectify a mistake." "This mistake was made by us when we entered into the management contract with the in 2011, and through an oversight on our part did not realize that it conflicted with rights already granted to the Memphis Zoo by the city of Memphis in prior agreements," Hedgepeth wrote in an email sent Thursday, March 3. "This is not a new encroachment on the Zoo's part, however the creation of the OPC and the city's contract with them was the spark that ignited this entire debate in recent years," Hedgepeth added.

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