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Arkansas TV Stations Pull Ad Criticizing Exxon After Legal Threats
2013-04-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Facing South: A satirical ad criticizing Exxon Mobil that was set to air this week on Arkansas TV stations was pulled at the last minute after the company threatened legal action. The Irving, Texas-based oil giant is in the spotlight for its March 29 Pegagus oil pipeline break in Mayflower, Ark., which spilled an estimated 300,000 gallons of Canadian tar sands bitumen, a highly impure form of petroleum, in a residential community. Of the 22 families evacuated as a result of the spill, four are being allowed...
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Canada: Government wrong to pull out of Convention
2013-04-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sudbury Star: The federal government recently pulled out of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. It's aimed at fighting drought, a problem that affects almost 30% of Earth's land surface and threatens the well-being of more than a billion people worldwide, including in our Prairie provinces. Every year, the cumulative effects of overgrazing, over-cultivation, deforestation, poor irrigation and increasing extreme weather events --including those that cause drought -- permanently degrade close to 10 million...
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Fisker ready to pull the plug
2013-04-05 19:20:53| CNET News.com
A report by Reuters says that Fisker laid off 160 of its employees this morning, which seems to spell the end for the luxury plug-in hybrid manufacturer. [Read more]
Code Quiz: Pull Boxes for Fixed Electric Heating Systems
2013-04-04 18:28:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
By Steven Owen, National Code Seminars NEC requirements regarding pull boxes for fixed electric heating systems read more
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Court Rules Broadcasters Can't Pull the Plug on Aereo
2013-04-02 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Aereo, a startup that streams TV content to Web-connected devices with the use of tiny antenna, won another legal battle Monday in its war with broadcast networks. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a district court's ruling that denied 17 broadcasters a preliminary injunction against Aereo on the grounds that streaming TV content to individual subscribers does not constitute a public performance.
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