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More foreign drug firms face scrutiny in China
2014-05-27 12:54:07| Biotech - Topix.net
China is reportedly putting more foreign drug firms under scrutiny, state media said on Tuesday, days after the conclusion of a police probe into alleged bribery by employees of Britain's GlaxoSmithKline.
Accident leads to scrutiny of oil sand production
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In the annals of oil well blowouts and pipeline disasters, the 7,400 barrels of oily slush that oozed out of the mossy bogs of the boreal forest in northeast Alberta last summer may seem like a trivial matter. No one was hurt in the accident, which spread across at least 17 acres in the Primrose oil sands field, and the most damage to wildlife came from the killing of about 70 frogs in a lake contaminated by the leak. It has since been drained. But while the accident has so far been overshadowed...
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China's face mask industry under scrutiny as pollution worsens
2014-03-25 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chinese citizens are feverishly snapping up face masks as worsening air pollution fuels a multi-million dollar industry where many products fail to provide even basic protection, drawing calls for better oversight and standards. The country's worsening air quality is at the top of the list of concerns of China's stability-obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has poisoned much of the country's...
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Bass Strait wells under scrutiny after crude oil spill
2014-03-18 05:38:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oil has washed up at Victoria's 90 Mile Beach, adjacent to the oil and gas poduction precinct in the Bass Strait.
As scrutiny of school funding formula grows, a discussion of what's fair
2014-03-08 01:39:59| Trucking - Topix.net
Kindergartner Jonathan Mondragon leads his classmates in a single-file line down the hallway for their first day of class Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, at Cambeiro Elementary School in Las Vegas.
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