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EXCLUSIVE: Cuomo urged to keep MTA boss Tom Prendergast
2015-03-10 09:39:26| Railroads - Topix.net
Gov. Cuomo not only has to decide how to fund the MTA - he has to decide who will run it. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast has only been at the helm of the nation's largest transit system since June 2013 - but his tenure expires June 30. That's because Prendergast was appointed to complete a term initially granted to former chairman Jay Walder, who resigned in 2011 after just two years.
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Ministry urged to assess impact of Mekong River damming
2015-03-07 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vietnam Net: Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has told the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to assess impact of hydropower damming in the mainstream Mekong River on residents in the downstream. The ministry said at a meeting on Tuesday with the Deputy PM that it has invited representatives of Laos and Cambodia, and international organizations and experts to jointly prepare a study on impact of hydropower projects. Le Duc Trung, office manager of the Vietnam National Mekong Committee, said...
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United Kingdom: Plans to phase out coal power urged
2015-03-01 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Political leaders risk derailing efforts to tackle climate change unless they set out clear plans to phase out dirty coal powered stations by the early 2020s, campaigners have warned. A coalition of groups including Greenpeace UK, WWF UK, Oxfam, RSPB and the Women's Institute have written to the leaders of the main political parties calling on them to set out in their general election manifestos how they meet pledges to phase out coal. The call comes after David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick...
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World leaders urged tackle food waste to save billions & cut emissions
2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments across the world should make reducing food waste an urgent priority in order to save as much as 194bn annually by 2030, according to a report. Cutting food waste leads to greater efficiency, more productivity and higher economic growth, it said, but achieving such an aspiration would involve consumers cutting their own food and drink waste by as much as half. One third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, with food wasted by consumers globally valued at more than...
Coles, Woolworths urged to sign grocery code of conduct
2015-02-24 09:50:33| Grocery - Topix.net
A grocery industry code of conduct aimed at curbing unfair treatment of suppliers by the major supermarket chains will be enacted within days, more than two years after talks commenced between Coles, Woolworths and the food and grocery industry. The Minister for Small Business, Bruce Billson, said the code had been significantly strengthened after an extensive consultation process to prohibit "unacceptable" practices and unfair changes to supply agreements that might not have been banned under the original proposal agreed to by Coles, Woolworths and the Australian Food & Grocery Council in November 2013.
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