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Debate over impact of beef production on environment needs realism
2016-07-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Omaha World Herald: Nebraska-raised cattle eat at the Burwell Livestock Market. When these cattle make it to the supermarket as steaks and roasts, it'll be anyone's guess where this beef is from. Denmark may be a small country, but a recent proposal there points to a challenge for the world's beef industry. Its independent Council of Ethics has called on the Danish government to put a special tax on beef purchases to compel the country's 5 million Danes to eat less red meat. The council argued that cattle-raising...
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Crib notes: Democrat convention to debate Clinton climate plan
2016-07-24 18:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate change barely featured at the US Republican National Convention in Cleveland, except in Donald Trump`s coded attack on the clean power plan. This week it`s the Democrats` turn in Philadelphia and you can expect building a low carbon economy to feature on the agenda. Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, seen as a safe centrist. He doesn`t tick all the climate hawk boxes, having opposed the Keystone XL pipeline but supported fracking and Atlantic...
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NYC Adjusts to New Recycling Rules, Continues to Debate Franchise Zones
2016-07-21 15:32:00| Waste Age
In New York City, businesses and haulers are adjusting to two new recycling rules that went into effect on July 19. Under these new rules, businesses and large food processors that meet the requirements are required to compost, all businesses are required to separate paper separate paper, metal, glass and plastic containers from refuse and commercial sanitation companies can no longer comingle separated recyclable materials in the same garbage truck as trash. read more
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Debate rages on China market economy status
2016-07-21 12:12:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The granting of market economy status to China at the end of this year, and its subsequent treatment in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations, has divided industry sectors on both sides of the Atlantic.
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A decade of bitumen battles: How 10 years of fighting over oilsands affects energy, environment debate today
2016-07-06 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canada: Standing two storeys tall, the 180-tonne yellow dump truck parked on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., commanded attention all around Capitol Hill. With tires four metres high, the Caterpillar 777F hauler -- similar to the monster machines used in the oilsands -- was the main attraction for Albertas exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in July 2006. The behemoth machine symbolized the provinces growing energy bounty: a secure supplier of crude to the United States, boasting some...
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