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EPA report on fracking in Texas raises new concerns
2013-12-24 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The Environmental Protection Agency was justified in intervening to examine possible risks of gas drilling to Texas drinking water, the agency's internal watchdog reported Tuesday. But environmentalists say the report raises fresh concerns about the EPA's 2012 decision to halt its investigation into possible well-water contamination in Parker County, Texas. The EPA inspector general's report is the latest analysis to spotlight the regulator's handling of high-profile cases of alleged drinking-water...
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Tanger Outlets raises funds to help fight breast cancer
2013-12-23 22:13:37| Real Estate - Topix.net
To celebrate the season of hope and giving, Tanger Outlets in Blowing Rock raised and is donating $4,133 for the battle against breast cancer.
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CHINA: Raises cotton import tax but unclear on quotas
2013-12-20 15:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Chinese government plans to introduce adjustments from 1 January 2014 to the way it calculates tax applied to imported cotton over-and-above its mandatory WTO-approved import quota of 894,000 tonnes.
CyanogenMod raises $23 million in funding, goes legit to reel in the big boys like Samsung and HTC
2013-12-20 15:44:33| Extremetech
The CyanogenMod group, famous for its feature-rich Android builds that have been stripped of cruft and bloatware, has secured $23 million of Series B funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Chinese internet giant Tencent. The money will be spent on recruiting new talent (up to 60 new staff members over the next year) that will help cement Cyanogen Inc as a serious, commercial player in the Android market. In related news, the Oppo N1 -- the first CyanogenMod smartphone that's been certified by Google -- will be available from December 24.
Shale well depletion raises questions about oil boom
2013-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: The stubborn rock that the energy industry breached to unleash a nationwide oil and gas rush remains a worthy foe, as producers must turn their drills ever faster to keep the boom`s lifeblood flowing. Engineers have long known that shale, the source rock that fed North American sandstone reservoirs for millennia, could never muster the natural pressure producers need to extract oil and gas. Its molecules are too tightly packed: Shale is about 1,000 times denser than brick, and so far, only hydraulic...
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