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Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world's temperate forests
2015-08-28 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Physorg: Longer, more severe, and hotter droughts and a myriad of other threats, including diseases and more extensive and severe wildfires, are threatening to transform some of the world's temperate forests, a new study published in Science has found. Without informed management, some forests could convert to shrublands or grasslands within the coming decades. "While we have been trying to manage for resilience of 20th century conditions, we realize now that we must prepare for transformations and attempt...
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Storm Kilo to strengthen in Pacific, Danny to weaken in Atlantic
2015-08-23 03:49:22| Airlines - Topix.net
Weather system Kilo weakened into a depression by early Saturday but is expected to become a hurricane as it travels across the central Pacific towards the Hawaiian islands over the next several days, the National Weather Service said. Kilo, with sustained winds of up to 30 miles per hour , was centered roughly 520 miles south of Honolulu by Saturday at 5 a.m. EDT , moving west-northwest at about 17 mph , the NWS said.
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Buffett may benefit as train lobby bids to weaken safety rule
2015-07-14 08:27:54| Railroads - Topix.net
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett talks in front of a mock BNSF railroad engine at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska in this May 1, 2010 file photograph. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is set to be a chief beneficiary of a bid by Senate Republicans to weaken new regulations to improve train safety in the $2.8 billion crude-by-rail industry, a key cog in the development of the vast North American shale oil fields.
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Buffett may benefit as train lobby bids to weaken safety rule
2015-07-14 08:27:53| Railroads - Topix.net
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is set to be a chief beneficiary of a bid by Senate Republicans to weaken new regulations to improve train safety in the $2.8 billion crude-by-rail industry, a key cog in the development of the vast North American shale oil fields. A series of oil train accidents, including the July 2013 explosion of a train carrying crude in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people, led U.S. and Canadian regulators to announce sweeping safety rules in May. Among other things, U.S. oil trains are required to install new electronically controlled pneumatic brakes.
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Republicans may weaken more North Carolina environmental rules
2015-05-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Citizen Times: A 44-year-old requirement that North Carolina study potential environmental impacts before launching building projects and another mandate that utilities rely more on alternative energy sources stand to weaken if trends in the General Assembly continue. The House on April 30 passed a bill limiting the environmental study requirement to apply only to projects costing more than $10 million. Then on Wednesday, the state representatives set aside for now a 2007 mandate that electric utilities keep...
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