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Spending To Fight Wildfires At The Expense Of Preventing Them
2015-05-21 09:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The weed-whacker is a frequent companion to the sounds of chirping birds and rustling pines at Ross Frank's ranch in Chumstick, Wash. With forested land on all sides, he's clearing dense brush beneath a stand of by his house. "So we're turning that around manually and mimicking what fire would have done naturally," he says. Eighty percent of the county where Frank's ranch is located is owned by the government. Frank says the government needs to do the same thing he's doing now clearing out the...
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Coal, oil, gas subsidies higher than public health spending
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EU Observer: Around 1.6 million premature deaths would be prevented annually if the world's governments stopped subsidising fossil fuels, a study by four researchers from the International Monetary Fund found. The most relative gains could be made in eastern Europe and Turkey, where 60 percent of the people who die as a result of air pollution are estimated could be saved. The IMF study, published Monday (18 May), calculated the true costs of the widespread practice of giving tax benefits and other subsidies...
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Second Half Looks Strong Despite Higher Ad Spending Says Medifast CEO
2015-05-19 13:42:00| Biotech - Topix.net
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Christie vetoes bill directed at Exxon settlement spending
2015-05-12 04:40:07| Energy - Topix.net
Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill Monday that would have required New Jersey to put the majority of its money from a much-criticized proposed pollution settlement with Exxon Mobil Corp. toward environmental cleanups. The state earlier this year announced a $225 million deal with the oil company over pollution around its refineries in Linden and Bayonne.
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Christie vetoes bill directed at Exxon settlement spending
2015-05-12 03:21:11| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have required New Jersey to put the majority of its money from a much-criticized proposed pollution settlement with Exxon Mobil Corp. toward environmental cleanup. Earlier this year, the state struck a $225 million deal with the oil company over pollution around refineries in Linden and Bayonne.
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