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Calgary floods spotlight cities' costly failure to plan for climate change
2013-06-28 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: But a community's ability to react during a disaster is one thing. Minimizing the impact of a flood is another. Now, the province faces a potentially decade-long cleanup effort that could cost $5 billion by BMO Nesbitt Burns estimates. Disaster risk management experts say the Alberta situation should serve as a wake-up call to municipalities across the country of the need to spend money and time mitigating the risks before disaster strikes, especially as climate change is predicted to bring bigger...
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Costly climate change intervention
2013-06-27 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: On Tuesday, President Obama announced a series of executive actions aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, with hopes of mitigating climate changes. His "Climate Action Plan" is neither necessary nor effective, but it will be costly. By promoting limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. power plants while increasing "green"-energy incentives, the president is trying to steer our energy choices away from the free-market course and toward the direction of his liking. This is a dangerous...
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U.S. chicken sector boosted by fast-food items, costly beef
2013-06-21 11:13:34| Food - Topix.net
This is a good year to be in the U.S. chicken business. Profits are up, production and prices are rising, fast-food restaurants are promoting chicken dishes, and feed costs appear headed lower thanks to expected large U.S. corn and soybean crops.
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Kroger: Proposed menu labeling rules too costly
2013-06-09 12:55:53| Grocery - Topix.net
Calorie counts are increasingly common for items listed on fast-food restaurant menu boards.
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FDA plan for menu labels too costly, Kroger argues
2013-06-06 07:38:19| Grocery - Topix.net
Grocers around the country, though - including Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. - are trying to persuade the federal Food and Drug Administration to reconsider proposed rules that would expand the requirements for posting nutritional labels on prepared food items at stores.
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