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America's growing inequality helped scuttle the global climate change initiative

2013-10-28 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The link between good economic policy and climate change mitigation is instigated by policies such as the triple-bottom line, carbon limitations, and pro-environmental legislation. However, economic inequality is a little explored piece of the successful fight against climate change. For climate change mitigation and good economic policy to work, economic growth must be broad-based. Indeed, the inability for the United States to make a coherent and progressive stance on climate change has effectively...

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Storm layer helped contain spoiled marsh

2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Record: While Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of New Jersey, it actually did some good in one area of the Meadowlands, researchers have found. The storm surge laid a layer of clean sediment over the widespread contamination in Berry's Creek, partially covering the pollution researchers have spent years trying to figure out how to clean up. The contaminated marsh system surrounds the Giants training facility and MetLife Stadium, which will host the Super Bowl in February. The creek, a Superfund site,...

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Microsoft grows earnings, revenue in Q1, helped by server software

2013-10-25 01:07:56| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft's revenue and earnings per share grew more than 15 percent each in its first fiscal quarter of 2014, during which enterprise server software products sold particularly well, the company said Thursday. Microsoft generated revenue of $18.5 billion in the quarter, ended Sept. 30, up 16 percent compared with last year's first quarter and topping the $17.8 billion consensus estimate of Wall Street analysts polled by Thomson Financial.

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