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Global warming to pinch Salt Lake City water supply

2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Summit County: By now its no secret that global warming will have a significant impact on water supplies in parts of the world, and regions where water is already scarce will be first to feel the pinch That includes the interior West, where winter snowpack provides critical water storage. Already, projections show that spring runoff is coming much earlier than just a few years ago, and that, in many areas, more of the total annual precipitation is falling as rain. In a new study, a team of researchers tried...

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Music City Star, small rail networks face funding pinch from lawsuit

2013-11-02 10:32:53| Railroads - Topix.net

A lawsuit filed by two of the nation's largest railroads challenging Tennessee's tax on diesel fuel for locomotives could lead to a shutdown of the Music City Star commuter train and a network of smaller railroads that feed tons of cargo from Tennessee companies onto the big carriers' systems daily, say operators of the smaller lines.

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Carriers feeling the pinch from HOS changes

2013-10-19 01:15:14| Trucking - Topix.net

Reforms made to hours of service regulations imposed back in July are one of several factors starting to affect the profitability of carriers, particularly those in the long-haul TL segment of the industry.

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Microsoft puts Windows XP laggards in a pinch

2013-09-24 14:34:15| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft last week painted Windows XP consumer and small business customers into an even smaller corner when it said it could not recommend that they upgrade to Windows 8.1, the update to Windows 8 slated to ship Oct. 18.

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