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Snyder Aide Says Governor Knew About Flint Water Issues A Year Before Action Was Taken
2016-02-26 15:38:20| Automakers - Topix.net
Aides close to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his top lawyers discussed concerns about water quality in Flint and its impact on health as early as October 2014, a full year before the water source was switched back to Detroit and away from the Flint River, according to a review of 550 newly released emails by the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News . At least one aide says the concerns were brought directly to the governor himself.
I.M. Pei Attacked by Home Health Aide Last Month, Says Cops
2016-01-04 16:24:56| Real Estate - Topix.net
Sad news from New York City over the long New Year's weekend: Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei alleged that his home health aide assaulted him, according to a police complaint first reported by the New York Post . Pei, renowned for designing the Louvre's glass pyramid and the Kennedy Library, alleges that on December 13, Eter Nikolaishvili, 28, "grabbed his right forearm and forcefully twisted [it]," ripping the skin from his arm.
India Drought 2015: Climate Change Biggest Threat India Economy, Modi Finance Aide Says
2015-11-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...
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Pope climate change aide urges business favor planet over profit
2015-05-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis' top aide on climate change urged businesses on Wednesday not to let the pursuit of profit get in the way of protecting the planet. The remarks came as the Vatican is due to release a papal encyclical, or formal letter, on the issue. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who helped draft the encyclical, said the paper would be presented in the second half of June, two months before the pope is due to address the U.S. Congress and a United Nations meeting on sustainable development. "Our lives...
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Va. House speaker's upstart challenger loses another key campaign aide
2015-05-09 02:33:23| Paper - Topix.net
Grass-roots director Daniel Bradshaw confirmed Friday that he had left former Stafford County supervisor Susan Stimpson's campaign for the House of Delegates. Stimpson is seeking to oust Howell , her onetime mentor, hoping to capiA talA ize on the tea party zeal that helped a political novice topple then-U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor last summer.