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United Church drops fossil fuels investments due to climate concern
2015-08-12 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Beacon News: The general council of one of Canada`s largest churches has voted to drop fossil fuels from its investment portfolios, with advocates for the motion saying the decision is based on the Christian duty to care for the earth. Commissioners attending the United Church of Canada`s general council in Corner Brook, N.L., voted 67 per cent in favour Tuesday to divest the industry from its treasury assets and to shift the $5.9 million from the portfolio into green renewable energy ventures. The motion...
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TTMA's Freiler Expresses Concern over GHG Proposal
2015-08-12 00:43:35| Trucking - Topix.net
The trailer-specific portions of the Phase 2 rulemaking proposal to increase fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards would be costly, inefficient and worsen the trucking industry's carbon footprint and safety record, Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association engineering manager John Freiler testified at a government hearing. The trailer-specific portions of the Phase 2 rulemaking proposal to increase fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards would be costly, inefficient and worsen the trucking industry's carbon footprint and safety record, Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association engineering manager John Freiler testified at a government hearing.
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Meeting #1 - Hazards of Concern
2015-07-24 19:13:32| PortlandOnline
Word Document, 247kbCategory: Steering Committee Documents
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Australia: Fracking ban incites 'fear, concern' about coal seam gas, inquiry told
2015-07-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Successive Victorian governments have incited "fear and concern" in the community about coal seam gas exploration by imposing a lengthy ban on fracking, a parliamentary inquiry has been told. The Inquiry into Unconventional Gas is considering how to regulate a potential coal seam gas industry in Victoria and whether a statewide ban on the extraction process known as "fracking" should be retained. Energy producers told the inquiry the fracking moratorium, introduced in 2012, should be lifted...
Emissions have declined, but sulfur dioxide air pollutant still a concern for asthmatics
2015-07-18 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Emissions of the air pollutant sulfur dioxide have been dramatically decreased during the past 30 years but for some people even a little inhaled sulfur dioxide may still be too much. "Asthmatics are particularly sensitive to sulfur dioxide and can be more likely to suffer asthma complications but scientists still don't know exactly why that is so," said Bill Ameredes, director of the Inhalation Toxicology Core Facility of the Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine at the University...
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