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SCAQMD Launches Nation's Largest Zero-Emission Commercial Lawn Mower Demonstration Program In San Bernardino
2015-10-19 03:31:19| pollutiononline News Articles
The South Coast Air Quality Management District today delivered a dozen new, battery-electric commercial lawn mowers to agencies inSan Bernardino Countyas part of a long-term demonstration program to promote the zero-emission equipment
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Nation's Largest Supermarket Chain to Cover Gender Reassignment For Trans Employees
2015-10-15 11:51:08| Grocery - Topix.net
Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the United States and one of the country's largest employers, confirmed with The Advocate Wednesday that it will be providing full health benefits to transgender employees , including coverage of gender reassignment surgery. According to Kroger spokeswoman Patty Leesemann, the new health plan will be available January 2016 to non-union employees.
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Mexico Challenges Other Nations to Act Boldly against Climate Change
2015-10-14 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Where some are planning walls, others are planning windows. Or rather, pipelines. Across the dusty 1,954-mile border between Mexico and the United States, international companies are gearing up to spend more than $10 billion on thousands of miles of steel tubes carrying cheap natural gas from Texas to hungry markets on the other side of the Rio Grande. The recent surge in natural gas investment is just one element of the colossal changes underway in Mexicos energy portrait. Fracturing monopolies,...
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World Bank pledges extra $29bn to poorer nations for climate change fight
2015-10-10 07:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The World Bank has pledged to boost by up to $29bn the financial assistance pledged to poorer nations to cope with climate change, bringing closer the possibility of reaching a target of $100bn a year by 2020. Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank Group, said it could boost funding by a third, from 21% to 28%, in response to client demand. He spoke at a meeting of the World Bank and the IMF in Lima, Peru. As we move closer to Paris countries have identified trillions of dollars of climate-related...
Los Angeles Times: L.A. poised to approve nation's strongest earthquake safety rules
2015-10-09 19:52:20| PortlandOnline
News story posted to latimes.com October 9, 2015.
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