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The whole world is breaking the law by ignoring climate change

2015-03-30 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: The countries of the world are violating national and international law by polluting the atmosphere and heating up the planet, according to a group of respected lawyers. Regardless of what kind of climate deal the U.N. comes up with in Paris later this year, governments already have a legal responsibility to take action, the jurists argued today in London as they launched what theyre calling the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations. From a Guardian column by two legal experts:...

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Deforestation Slowing, But Forests Are Breaking Down

2015-03-21 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: The amount of climate pollution being produced every year by the felling of forests is falling worldwide, but benefits of the heartening decline are being eroded by the worsening conditions of the forests still left standing. The losses of entire stretches of forests, combined with losses of individual trees from forests that remain, pumped an average of 3.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year from 2011 to 2015, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization announced...

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'Breaking Bad' fans throw pizzas on Walter White's roof

2015-03-13 07:49:15| Real Estate - Topix.net

You may remember that, back in Season 3 of the show, White got upset and threw a pizza on the roof of his Albuquerque house. It's a real house, and real people live there, and they're tired of idiots throwing pizzas on their roof, according to series creator Vince Gilligan.

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Grocer Jewel to pay $400,000 for allegedly breaking EEOC deal

2015-03-07 18:06:22| Grocery - Topix.net

The Jewel-Osco supermarket chain has been ordered to pay $400,000 in attorney's fees and costs for allegedly violating a consent decree obtained by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in connection with its leave policy, the agency said Friday. The EEOC said the decree had been entered to resolve prior agency litigation filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act, in which the EEOC charged that the chain, which is now operated by Boise, Idaho-based New Albertsons Inc., routinely failed to provide reasonable accommodations to employees seeking to return to work from a disability leave.

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