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Celanese to Address Challenges Through its International Impact Program
2013-09-16 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Hasbro Announces 2020 Sustainability Goals; Company Aims To Reduce Environmental Impact Of Its Global Operations
2013-09-16 04:20:23| pollutiononline News Articles
Global branded play leader Hasbro, Inc. recently announced new environmental sustainability goals which it aims to achieve by end of 2020
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U.S. Debates Climate Impact of Development Investments
2013-09-14 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A debate is heating up here over the extent to which U.S. government-facilitated private-sector development investments should be required to take into account how those ventures impact on climate change. The discussions focus on a small and relatively little-known federal agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the government office in charge of mobilising private capital in pursuit of international development priorities. While OPIC generally receives high marks, in recent...
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Weighing the Impact of COOL
2013-09-13 19:08:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Kansas State University The Sept. 11 ruling by a U.S. district court judge refusing to stop the government from requiring more specific country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for meat products sold in stores reignites the debate about benefits vs. costs of this mandatory policy. This policy could mean that more information will be available for meat consumers to make purchasing decisions, but it also could lead to economic loss for the U.S. meat industry and its trading partners, remarks Glynn Tonsor, associate professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University. read more
Tiny plankton could have big impact on climate
2013-09-13 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As the climate changes and oceans' acidity increases, tiny plankton seem set to succeed. An international team of marine scientists has found that the smallest plankton groups thrive under elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. This could cause an imbalance in the food web as well as decrease ocean CO2 uptake, an important regulator of global climate. The results of the study, conducted off the coast of Svalbard, Norway, in 2010, are now compiled in a special issue published in Biogeosciences, a journal...
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