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Farmers Union's Statement on Safe, Accurate Food Labelling Act
2014-04-14 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued a statement in opposition to H.R. 4432, The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2014, sponsored by Reps. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., and G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.
GM slow to act on recalls, House documents show
2014-04-13 22:58:22| Automakers - Topix.net
Documents released by a House subcommittee show that managers and employees at General Motors were often slow to react to safety problems - and that one part of GM often didn't know what another was doing.
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Act fast to curb global warming, or extract CO2 from air: UN
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A United Nations report said on Sunday that governments must act faster to slow global warming and delays until 2030 could force reliance on little-tested technologies to extract greenhouse gases from the air. The study, drawing on work by more than 1,000 experts, said a radical shift from conventional fossil fuels to low-carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 percentage point a year off world economic growth. "It does not cost the world to save the planet,"...
Act fast curb global warming or extract CO2 from air: UN
2014-04-13 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The study, drawing on the work of more than 1,000 experts, said a shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power was affordable and would shave only about 0.06 percentage point a year off world economic growth. "We have a window of opportunity for the next decade, and maximum the next two decades" to act at moderate costs, said Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of a Berlin meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "I'm not saying it's costless....
Greenland Ice Cores show Impact of US Clean Air Act on Climate
2014-04-11 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Samples from the Greenland ice sheet suggest the US Clean Air Act had a clear effect on conditions in the Earth's atmosphere. The discovery by University of Washington atmospheric scientists also alludes to a link between air acidity and nitrogen preservation in snow layers, according to a release by the school. While the research team had been interested in studying smog, it discovered a link in the geologic record between smog and acid rain. The US Clean Air Act of 1970 was a reaction to air...
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