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UN Clmate Official Pans Idea of Arctic Drilling in Subtle Slap at Obama Admin
2015-05-14 14:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The United Nations top climate official took a subtle poke at the Obama administration on Wednesday over its decision to conditionally allow oil exploration off Alaskas coast, suggesting that the Arctics oil and gas should stay underground. Despite the tentative green light given to Shell Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, both the environment and Shells stockholders would be best served if such projects are shelved, said Christiana Figueres, the executive director of the U.N. Framework Convention...
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Facebook's Bracing Slap In the Face for Web Publishers
2015-05-13 22:02:48| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Facebook's Instant Articles feature should force Web publishers to shape up. But it could result in filter-bubble tyranny.
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Australian winemakers slap sunblock on grapes
2015-01-09 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The harsh Australian sun can really damage the skin. Grape skin, that is. Winemakers Down Under are protecting their crop by spraying a special sunscreen on their vines. "It acts just like putting sunscreen on when you go to the beach," said Bruce Tyrrell, managing director of Tyrrell's Wines. The winery, one of the oldest in Australia, has been protecting its vines in this way for the past couple of years. Yalumba, a winemaker in the Barossa Valley, also uses sunblock to protect its vintages....
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Journalist-Tracking Uber Exec Gets Vague Hand Slap
2014-12-02 16:35:17| TechNewsWorld
Uber has disciplined a company executive accused of using an internal tool to track a journalist's whereabouts, it said. The company offered no details about the nature of that reprimand, however, or about the possibility of taking similar action against another executive who publicly suggested the possibility of targeting journalists with a smear campaign.
Oil Giant Citgo Gets Slap On Wrist for 10 Years of Illegal Operations
2014-05-16 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A foreign oil company convicted of polluting a Texas community`s air with dangerous chemicals has gotten off easy in a criminal case that could undercut the prosecution of environmental crimes in the U.S. The case revolves around Venezuelan-owned Citgo Petroleums decade-long violation of the federal Clean Air Act at its refinery in Corpus Christi. In 2007, the Citgo refinery became the first to be criminally convicted of violating the Clean Air Act by a U.S. jury. The refinery had spent a decade...
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