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Climate negotiations yet to begin in earnest in Bonn
2014-06-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Hard negotiations on the shape and content of an international treaty to tackle global warming have yet to get under way after eight days of talks in Bonn, despite what everyone describes as a constructive atmosphere at the latest United Nations conference. With only 18 months to go before the crucial Paris climate change summit, delegates representing 185 countries are still grappling with the process of reaching agreement, in the absence so far of a draft text to serve as a basis for negotiations....
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Firefighters begin 24-hour strike
2014-06-12 10:32:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Firefighters in England and Wales are staging a 24-hour walk-out, the longest strike so far in the continuing row over their pensions.
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Honest Leadership a Good Place for GMs Barra to Begin
2014-06-08 00:27:41| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Mary Barra didnt mince words with her take on a stinging internal assessment of what went wrong in the ignition switch recall scandal blamed for at least 13 deaths and nearly 50 accidents. Barra called the 315- page report by Anton Valukas, a former U.S. attorney, extremely thorough, brutally tough and deeply troubling. It details a history of failures in which nobody took responsibility and there was no demonstrated sense of urgency in a saga riddled with failures. With documented corroboration of insiders, Barra included, it confirms in stark terms the dark underside of GMs culture, proving some of the worst, most caricatured aspects of old GM exist still in the new one. READ MORE The Article Honest Leadership a Good Place for GMs Barra to Begin appeared first on Automotive Digest.
Honest leadership a good place for GM's Barra to begin
2014-06-06 17:33:24| Automakers - Topix.net
In one of the more extraordinary airings of dirty laundry this town has seen in a long time, the General Motors Co.
Tepco begin work Fukushima ice wall contain water leaks
2014-06-04 10:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The operator of the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), has begun construction of a 1.5km (0.9-mile) ice wall to contain leaked radioactive water. Some 1,550 coolant-circulating pipes will be inserted 25 metres into the ground in an attempt to freeze the soil surrounding the contaminated water. A Tepco official said, We plan to end all the construction work in March 2015 before starting trial operations. The state-funded ice wall could be in operation...
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