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NYU WIRELESS Researchers Call On Governments To Reform Safety Standards For Wireless Devices
2015-06-12 06:32:38| wirelessdesignonline News Articles
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless technology promises to support high-bandwidth content at speeds exceeding 10 gigabits per second—a thousand times today's current mobile phone download speeds—but with that promise comes public concern about the health risks associated with utilizing the high-frequency radio waves in that spectrum.
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Should governments intervene in energy markets?
2015-06-04 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change and public sector debt are two of the biggest issues for modern governments and they come together in the vexed question of how far the state should intervene in energy markets. According to the International Monetary Fund, energy subsidies accounted for 8% of total global government spending in 2011 ($1.9tn, or 1.2tn), due mainly to the political appeal of keeping energy prices down. In the UK, energy remains a contentious issue. Despite sharp falls in wholesale prices for...
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Governments certain to seal Paris climate deal: U.N. climate chief
2015-05-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Governments are certain to sign a global climate deal in Paris in six months' time even though most countries have yet to outline how they plan to cut emissions, the United Nations' climate chief said on Tuesday. Almost 200 governments are due to meet at a conference in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 to agree on a deal to slow global warming. "Governments are actually very well on track...there is no doubt that this agreement will be forged in Paris," Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate...
EPA, Local Governments Launching Giant Solar Project, with Landfill Site Key
2015-05-13 09:45:00| Waste Age
A California solar project with a county landfill in Hayward as the centerpiece is launching, representing the largest local government collaborative for solar power in the United States to date and the nations first federal solar partnership. read more
5 local Oregon governments call for carbon pricing
2015-05-07 20:35:55| Waste Management - Topix.net
Four Oregon cities - including Hood River - and one county have passed resolutions calling on the 2015 Oregon Legislature to impose a fee on carbon to lower the state's carbon emissions. Pressure is mounting on the 2015 Legislature to tax carbon emissions with four Oregon cities and one county passing resolutions calling for it to pass a carbon tax to reduce Oregon's greenhouse gas emissions to pre-1990 levels.
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