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Boeing: Here's our plan to nix 787 battery fire risk
2013-03-15 04:45:33| CNET News.com
The Dreamliner maker plans to wrap the lithium-ion batteries in an electrical insulator to prevent heat exchange and cut holes in the battery enclosure to allow moisture to drain. [Read more]
Apple said to nix apps using 'cookie tracking'
2013-02-26 04:15:51| CNET News.com
In what might be a push for its own Advertising Identifier technology, the software giant is said to be rejecting apps that use "cookie tracking" from its App Store. [Read more]
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How Obama Could Nix the Keystone Pipeline (And Why He Won't)
2013-01-24 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Wire: President Obama will be confronted with the first big policy decision of his second term where environmentalists and business interests are at odds: the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Despite promising to act on climate change in his inaugural speech, all signs point to the controversial project going forward. On Wednesday, a majority of Senators (44 Republicans and nine Democrats) sent a letter to President Obama urging him to move forward on Keystone XL, a massive pipeline that would carry oil from...
Regulators nix deal for SE Ohio solar farm project
2013-01-10 05:47:25| Energy - Topix.net
Utility regulators in Ohio have nixed plans for American Electric Power Co. to use power from a southeast Ohio solar farm to meet its renewable energy requirements, putting the project's future in jeopardy.