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Weakened rights language Paris climate draft spark alarm
2015-12-11 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rights experts urged ministers at U.N. climate talks to put respect for human rights back into the binding section of a draft new global deal to tackle global warming, after it was removed from the latest version released on Thursday evening. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is hoping to have the final text ready on Friday, and key issues remain open, with talks likely to carry on through the night. Human rights organizations, aid agencies and climate-impacted people were disappointed...
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California passes one weakened climate bill, wholly fails to pass second
2015-09-15 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Late Friday night, the California state legislature passed a new climate bill, and while it will lead to some progress, overall its passage should ring as a disappointment to environmentalists. The Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act, or Senate Bill 350 -- an ostensibly landmark piece of legislation -- will beef up the states renewable portfolio standard by requiring utilities to generate 50 percent of their electricity using renewable sources by 2030. Which shouldnt be a problem: The...
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Friday, Sept. 11, 2015: LePage should quit, Trump, GMO laws weakened
2015-09-10 14:00:52| Beverages - Topix.net
Many Mainers were dismayed by the recent passing of HR 1599 , Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, in the House. This goes against the wishes of what 90 percent of Americans want - the right to know what is in the food we eat and feed our families.
AGCO Q2 profit cut by weakened demand
2015-07-28 17:03:18| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
AGCO Corp.'s second-quarter profit dropped following weakened demand for its products and $46.4 million in restructuring charges related to global job cuts. The Duluth, Ga.-based agricultural equipment maker reported sales in the period fell 24.8 percent to $2.1 billion, hurt in part by unfavorable currency translation.
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Polar bears weakened by pollution as well as warmth
2015-04-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Greenlands polar bears have a thyroid problem. Their endocrine systems, too, are being disrupted. In both cases the culprit agency is environmental pollution by a range of long-lived industrial chemicals and pesticides. Kristin Mller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland...
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