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Germany: Volkswagens emissions cheating caused an appalling amount of extra pollution
2015-09-24 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Volkswagens rigging of emissions tests for 11 million cars means they may be responsible for nearly 1 million tons of air pollution every year, roughly the same as the U.K.s combined emissions for all power stations, vehicles, industry, and agriculture, a Guardian analysis suggests. The carmaker has recalled 482,000 VW and Audi brand cars in the U.S. after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found models with Type EA 189 engines had been fitted with a device designed to reduce emissions...
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VIDEO: Beer giant payment terms 'appalling'
2015-01-18 10:30:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
One of the world's biggest beer companies has been accused by an MP of demanding "shocking" payment terms from its smaller UK suppliers, as Joe Lynam reports.
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Burger King urged use Tom Hortons acquisition to correct appalling' palm oil policies
2014-08-28 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Burger King's newly-announced $11bn acquisition of Canadian coffee and doughnuts chain Tim Hortons may have already faced criticism over its tax arrangements, but now the deal is also taking flak over the two companies' environmental track record. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) this week called on both companies to use the planned merger as an opportunity to re-evaluate palm oil policies, which saw Burger King ranked at the bottom of the NGO's recent league table on companies' sustainable...
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AUDIO: Pension age rise 'appalling'
2013-12-05 10:55:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Dr Ros Altmann, a pension expert who has advised the government, and Shiv Malik, the author of Jilted Generation, discuss the state pension age.
Pro-fracking group hits National Park Service over appalling comments
2013-08-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The National Park Service is lend[ing] credence to activist theater in its formal input on federal hydraulic fracturing rules, a natural-gas industry group alleges. The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), in a letter Thursday to Director Jon Jarvis, basically says the Park Service went rogue in its Aug. 23 comments to a sister agency thats crafting the upcoming fracking regulations. The group says the Park Service overstates concerns about leakage of the greenhouse gas methane...
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