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Concord mayor met with Willie Brown, who has ties to would-be weapons station developer
2015-10-03 15:32:20| Real Estate - Topix.net
Mayor Tim Grayson recently sought political advice from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, a principal at an investment fund that does business with a firm vying to oversee development at the Concord Naval Weapons Station. Lennar Urban is one of two firms the City Council is considering to lead development of the former military base.
Under Clean Power Plan, Pennsylvania confronts its deep ties to coal
2015-09-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Pennsylvania's status as a nationwide energy giant is evident in the rural outskirts of this community in the state's southwest. A nearby church is dwarfed by the towering silos of Consol Energy Inc.'s Bailey Preparation Plant. Conveyor belts for carrying coal from nearby mines weave snakelike between the hills surrounding the operation. And in nearby Ryerson Station State Park, an empty field that was once a favorite swimming spot has driven years of litigation and activism after land movement...
Ranchers with ties to the biofuel industry attack Brazilian tribe members
2015-09-24 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In Brazil, the biofuel industry is booming. In 2013-2014, the country produced 7.3 billion gallons of ethanol from sugarcane second only to the United States. Biofuel has been hailed as a type of renewable energy that will save us from the destructive depths of hell that is fossil fuels, and Brazil has been described as a model for other countries. However, many of us know that using ethanol on such a large scale raises concerns of its environmental impact. The biofuel industry boom has resulted...
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Stakes high as Obama, Xi confront economic ties
2015-09-21 20:05:57| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
As President Barack Obama meets President Xi Jinping in Washington this week, the world's two biggest economies are trying to rework their tangled relationship as partners and rivals - the frenemies of the globalized marketplace. What's transforming their ties is the end of two decades-plus of super-charged growth in China.
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President Xi Jinping's trip to US city of Seattle highlights Washington state's China ties
2015-09-21 05:47:53| IT Services - Topix.net
The state - home to American firms such as Microsoft, Amazon.com and aircraft maker Boeing - exported more to mainland last year than any other President Xi Jinping, who arrives in Seattle on Tuesday, visited the United States in 2012 when he was vice-president. File photo: AP When President Xi Jinping arrives in the northwest US city of Seattle on Tuesday, on his way to the capital, Washington, later this week, he will be visiting the American state that exports more to his country than any other.
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