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UK consumers face 'lost decade'
2014-09-29 08:55:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
British consumers face another three years of squeezed spending as wage growth remains sluggish, an influential report suggests.
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City of Riesel May Face Fines for Arsenic in Water
2014-09-27 07:31:48| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality cited the city with $1,094 for not maintaining arsenic levels at acceptable levels for several years. TCEQ said extra arsenic levels in water can have a long-term health impact if it is consumed for decades.
California firefighters face tough wildfire season
2014-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KABC: With the amount of wildfires California has already seen this year, it might come as a bit of a surprise that traditional fire season is just getting underway. Black hillsides and firefighters cleaning up some burned vegetation are the only remaining signs of the Silverado Fire that burned 968 acres in Silverado Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest earlier this month. The blaze was another reminder that fire season never really ended in California. "We're in the third year of a drought, so...
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Climate warning to world leaders: stick to 2C limit or face 'mayhem'
2014-09-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders must commit themselves to holding current rises in global temperatures to 2C. That is the stark message of experts and campaigners in the runup to the United Nations climate summit that will be held in New York later this week. They say that 2C is the maximum temperature increase that the world can tolerate without causing environmental mayhem, and they insist that politicians attending the meeting, including Barack Obama and David Cameron, must agree to that upper limit. "If...
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Despite USDA approval, Enlist corn, soybeans face hurdles
2014-09-20 04:40:51| Chemicals - Topix.net
U.S. approval of Dow AgroSciences ' new genetically-modified corn and soybeans takes the agricultural giant a step closer to its "most important" product launch ever, but a series of hurdles remain, the company said on Thursday. "We sure are aware of the concerns that have been expressed," said Dow AgroSciences President Tim Hassinger in an interview.
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