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Showdown looms as California eyes pesticides
2014-11-08 20:15:13| Agriculture - Topix.net
With organic food growers reporting double-digit growth in US sales each year, producers are challenging a proposed California pest-management program they say enshrines a pesticide-heavy approach for decades to come, including compulsory spraying of organic crops at the state's discretion. Chief among the complaints of organic growers: The California Department of Food and Agriculture's pest-management plan says compulsory state pesticide spraying of organic crops would do no economic harm to organic producers, on the grounds that the growers could sell sprayed crops as non-organic instead.
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California garment labour violations "widespread"
2014-11-07 14:39:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Workers in the southern California garment industry are being robbed of millions of dollars a year in unpaid wages thanks to labour violations by their employers, says the US Labor Department.
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Stan Statham: Does California need reforming?
2014-11-07 01:27:56| IT Services - Topix.net
I wrote this column at about 6 a.m. election morning. Next Thursday's column I will do my best to address the results of this year's vote.
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Octobers top stories: UKs HS3 project, bullet trains in California
2014-11-06 11:08:00| Railway Technology
The Baltic States agreed to implement the Rail Baltica II project, the UK Government approved the HS3 proposal and China announced plans to build high-speed rail in Russia. Railway-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from October 2014.
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Southern California Edison to buy 261 MW of energy storage projects; largest grid-connected storage purchase in US
2014-11-06 10:55:09| Green Car Congress
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