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Big Food's M&A Craze Comes at a High Price: What Investors Should Know
2014-06-20 22:46:16| Food - Topix.net
Earlier this month, we reported that Tyson Foods, Inc. was in the running for a takeover of meat processor Hillshire Brands Co.
VIDEO: Making gelato into big business
2014-06-20 17:58:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How two friends, an economist and a former wine maker, started a thriving Italian gelato business.
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Pennsylvania Sues Dozens of Big Oil Companies for Gasoline Leak Cleanups
2014-06-20 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Trib Live: Pennsylvania on Thursday sued dozens of oil companies to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars spent cleaning gasoline spills that contaminated groundwater across the state. One of two lawsuits follows the lead of other states, some of which have won multimillion-dollar judgments on complaints that the companies used the fuel additive MTBE, which they knew was dangerous and would leak from underground storage tanks. The other lawsuit claims companies improperly took money from a state recovery...
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Pesticide & GMO companies spend big to influence politics in Hawaii
2014-06-20 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Hawaii has become "ground zero" in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including conventional as well as GMO crops) reaping $146.3 million a year in sales resulting from its activities in Hawaii, the out-of-state pesticide and GMO firms Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, Dow Chemical, BASF, and Bayer CropScience have brought substantial sums of corporate cash into the state`s relatively small political arena. Chemical conglomerates retaliate...
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Science Museums, Some Backed by Big Oil, Take Evasive Approach to Climate Change
2014-06-20 06:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AllGov: With significant funding from oil companies, the city of Dallas established a new science museum two years ago that has ditched exhibits discussing the relationship between fossil fuels and climate change. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened its doors in 2012 after raising $185 million, including contributions from Exxon and Chief Oil & Gas. Among the exhibits developed for visitors was a "Climate Change' panel that featured the following information: "Volcanic eruptions and burning...
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