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Big Oils heirs join call for action as climate summit opens
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industrys first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels. There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet, said Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. and a trustee of the largest charitable foundation...
New leader for ValueVision has big plans
2014-09-21 02:29:08| Jewelry - Topix.net
The operator of the No. 3 cable shopping channel, ShopHQ, has been through a tumultuous shake-up.
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Big business hold too much sway negotiations, not match urgency situation
2014-09-20 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InterAksyon: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hosting a Climate Summit in New York next week. Expected to attend are top officials from all UN Member States, big transnational corporations, financial institutions, and a few select civil society representatives. The goal is to build political will for a global agreement at the official negotiations in Paris in 2015 that would limit the world to a temperature rise of less than 2°C. But if prior UN climate events are any indication, the Summit...
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Toyotas fuel-cell sedan offers alternative to big batteries
2014-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: We're driving north along the San Francisco waterfront in Toyota's new fuel-cell sedan when the smooth, rounded rear of a Tesla Motors Model S pulls into the lane in front of us. Like the Model S, Toyota's latest clean car runs on an electric motor - no gasoline required. Unlike the Model S, the sedan doesn't get its energy from a big battery pack. Instead, a hydrogen fuel cell beneath the front seats feeds a steady stream of electricity to the motor. The cars represent two different visions of...
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International Paper: The Next Big MLP Play?
2014-09-20 15:05:42| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Perry Capital caused a stir recently when it argued in a report that three leading containerboard manufacturers -- International Paper , Rock-Tenn , and KapStone Paper and Packaging -- could significantly boost their stock prices by forming master limited partnerships for many of their mills. Since then, two of the three, International Paper and Rock-Tenn, said they would consider creating MLPs.
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