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China sees big drop in carbon emissions: Premier
2014-09-10 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: China's carbon emissions saw the largest drop in years as the nation furthers structural readjustment to improve growth quality, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday. The country's carbon intensity was cut by about 5 percent in the first half of the year, the largest drop in many years, the premier said in an address to the Summer Davos forum, also known as the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014, being held in the port city of Tianjin in north China. Meanwhile, energy consumption...
Big Oil stands by as con man swindles East Timor
2014-09-09 20:18:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
As Bobby Boye surveyed his extensive property portfolio, the 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost and other luxury vehicles in the garage, he may well have reflected with some satisfaction on a job well done. The Nigerian national with a penchant for signing off his emails "Bobby W. Boye esq."
Big Food tripled spending this year to stifle growing GMO labeling movement
2014-09-09 10:24:20| Beverages - Topix.net
It is something that, as an American and a consumer, ought to outrage you: Big Food companies spending tens of millions of dollars just to keep information from you -- to prevent you from knowing all that there is to know about a substance, or substances, that could be harming your health, as well as the overall health of the American agricultural industry. As Reuters reported recently, Big Food, which opposes mandatory labeling of anything manufactured with genetically modified organisms, spent nearly three times what they spent in all of last year in the first six months of this year to keep GMO-labeling laws from becoming reality .
Can Big Ag Put the Cloud in the Crops Before Someone Else Does?
2014-09-09 09:25:01| Food - Topix.net
Another of the big agricultural giants has joined the race for software-powered farming. Via the WSJ's Jacob Bunge : Cargill Inc. is developing a software service that guides farmers on how to plant crops, a foray that pits the agricultural conglomerate against a host of rivals seeking to harvest reams of data to sell "prescriptive planting" technology in North America.
Mom's Paying Big to Fail at Gun Control
2014-09-09 01:48:48| Grocery - Topix.net
Are they using the money to do something about the massive number of shootings in Chicago? Well, no . That's never been on their radar.
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