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Not Just Sea Level Rise: Northeast Faces Flooding From The Skies
2014-05-08 14:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The nation`s capital and financial center, not to mention other major metropolitan areas in the Northeast, are going to get soggy. And not just because of dramatic sea level rise and storm surge. The third National Climate Assessment, released Tuesday, stresses that the onslaught of water will come from the skies as well as the oceans. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast in October 2012, causing up to $80 billion in damage, most people in the Northeast quickly...
Congress faces highway funding battle, gridlock looms
2014-05-07 11:55:19| Trucking - Topix.net
A slow-motion pile-up is coming into view on U.S. highways and Capitol Hill this summer: federal funding for road construction is running out and Congress faces a big fight over how to replenish it.
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Astra deal faces parliamentary probe
2014-05-06 13:25:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Parliament's Business Select Committee plans to summon bosses from AstraZeneca and Pfizer to answer questions about Pfizer's potential takeover.
Colorado faces oil boom
2014-05-05 14:36:28| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: A pair of nesting bald eagles watch night fall last month within sight of an oil pump in Weld County, the heart of Colorado's oil and gas boom. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post) Colorado's intensifying oil and gas boom is taking a toll on soil -- 200 gallons spilled per day seeping into once-fertile ground -- that experts say could be ruinous. The state's approach has been to try to compel companies to excavate and haul the worst muck to landfills. But with support from state regulators, oil...
Boothbay Man Faces 21 Child Pornography Charges
2014-05-03 18:13:07| Electronics - Topix.net
J.W. Oliver A Boothbay man faces 12 felony and nine misdemeanor charges of distributing and possessing child pornography last September and October.
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