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Russian enviro who criticized Olympics sentenced 3 years of forced labor

2014-02-15 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: An activist who coauthored a report cataloging the appalling environmental damage wreaked by Olympic construction will spend the next three years in a Russian penal colony. Yevgeny Vitishko, a 40-year-old scientist, is ostensibly being punished for the crimes of spray-painting a fence and swearing in public. Vitishko was among seven members of Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus detained on the eve of the Olympics. An appeal of the decision to jail him for three years was rejected during...

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Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez Appoints 15 Members to Maritime Advisory Committee

2014-02-04 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News

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CN Rail to meet with union over stalled labor deal

2014-02-03 21:20:34| Railroads - Topix.net

Canadian National Railway Co said it will meet on Monday afternoon with officials from the union representing 3,000 train conductors, yard workers, and traffic coordinators to discuss solutions after members rejected a tentative labor deal.

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