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Volkswagen faces billions in penalties as US sues for environment violations
2016-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $48 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke. Although such U.S. lawsuits are typically settled at a fraction of the theoretical maximum penalty, analysts said the size of the claim meant Volkswagen (VW) could face a larger bill than previously anticipated. "The announcement serves as a reminder/reality check of VW's still unresolved...
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Pork industry faces tight margin year
2016-01-04 21:59:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: University of Illinois Pork producers are expected to experience another year of tight margins in 2016, similar to the year just completed. Purdue's Chris Hurt expects pork production to rise by about 1%, but beef production will rise by 4% and poultry by about 3%. read more
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General Motors faces bellwether trial in ignition switch case
2015-12-31 22:30:44| Automakers - Topix.net
Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, displays a GM ignition switch. GM must go to trial in the case of a man injured when airbags did not deploy in his car, a case linked to the ignition switch defect.
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World 'faces food shortages & mass migration' caused global warming
2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The world is facing a future of food shortages and mass migration as a consequence of widespread water shortages caused by global warming, the outgoing head of the World Meteorological Society has warned. Michel Jarraud, the WMOs Secretary-General, said of all the dangers posed by climate change from increasingly intense storms and a growth in disease to rising sea levels that may submerge cities the greatest threat is from dwindling water supplies. About 1.6 billion people already live...
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Southern Africa faces food shortages as El Nino drought worsens: FAO
2015-12-23 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Southern Africa faces food shortages as drought, exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern, delays planting and stunts crops across the region, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said in an alert. "The presence of a strong El Nino episode in 2015/16 raises serious concerns regarding the impact on food insecurity," the FAO said in the alert, issued late on Tuesday. Regional harvests last season were also badly affected by drought conditions, raising the specter of back-to-back...
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