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Lifeguarding is Protecting the Community
2015-02-04 18:34:54| PortlandOnline
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How Technology Is Protecting World Richest Marine Reserve
2015-01-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In 2000, Gregory Stone, an oceanographer at the New England Aquarium, went diving in the Phoenix Islands, an uninhabited archipelago belonging to Kiribati in the remote central Pacific. The multi-colored reefs swarmed with sharks and other large predators, an abundance shared by perhaps only a handful of remote atolls around the equator. We were completely blown away, Stone recalled. It was the first time I had seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago. The following...
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Obama to propose protecting U.S. Arctic wildlife refuge from drilling
2015-01-26 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama will call on Congress to expand protection of Alaska's Arctic refuge where oil and gas drilling is prohibited to 12 million acres (5 million hectares), an area that includes 1.4 million oil-rich acres along the coast. The proposal, unveiled by the Interior Department on Sunday, ran into instant criticism from Republicans and will likely face an uphill battle in Congress, where Republicans now control both chambers. The wilderness designation, the highest level of federal...
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Protecting Electrical Power Critical Assets
2015-01-20 19:15:00| Transmission & Distribution World
With increased emphasis on improving electrical power grid reliability, critical assets (e.g. switchgear, transformers, circuit breakers, and bus ducts) represent some of the most vulnerable components of the electric power delivery system. read more
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Laws Protecting Auto Franchises Are Bad for Consumers and Innovation
2015-01-19 15:09:18| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
U.S. automobile sales at the end of 2014 hit their highest level since the first quarter of 2006, according to data compiled from industry analysis source Wards Auto. While auto sales have climbed back to pre-recession levels, another aspect of the industry has continued to expand as well: The number of laws that protect auto dealers from competition.
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