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China pledges $275 billion over 5 years to cut record air pollution
2013-08-19 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last week China announced it was going to spend over a quarter of a trillion dollars ($275 billion) to fight rampant and life-threatening pollution in its urban centers over the next five years. Recent decades of unparalleled economic growth has taken a drastic environmental toll in China, including record air pollution levels in Beijing. The announcement follows other news, including that the Chinese government has recently scrapped a massive 2,000 megawatt coal plant project near the cities of...
Colorado River: Is historic cut in water release the new normal?
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Fourteen years of drought in the West and a revised rule book on allocating water along the Colorado River have prompted the US Bureau of Reclamation to make the deepest cut in water released from Lake Powell in the reservoir's 46-year history. Lake Powell is second-largest engineered reservoir in the United States by capacity, bested only by Lake Mead, more than 200 miles downstream. The bureau formally announced the cut Friday. The amount of water that the bureau will release from the lake starting...
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Nordstrom Falls 3% on Weak Forecast, Rating Cut
2013-08-17 10:33:30| Apparel - Topix.net
Just ten days ago, Nordstrom was trading within spitting distance of its 52-week high just Since, then its dropped 7.7%-and only time will tell if its shares catch an updraft or if this marks the moment that the market turned on what had been one of its favorite retail stocks .
United Kingdom: Squeezed households cut energy use by a quarter as prices soar
2013-08-16 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Households in England and Wales cut their energy use by a quarter between 2005 and 2011 as prices soared, government figures show. The sharp fall was probably caused by a mix of efficiency measures and environmental awareness, as well as steep price rises, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Households have faced steep price increases in recent years as wages have remained frozen, squeezing budgets. Average bills have risen by 28% in the last three years, industry regulator Ofgem...
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Households cut energy use by 25%
2013-08-16 12:36:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Households in England and Wales have cut their energy use by a quarter over the last six years, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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