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Safety Monitoring Software helps plants reduce risks.
2014-02-12 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In addition to continuously measuring, monitoring, and alerting operations and management to process safety risks, SafeGuard Sentinel Software delivers contingency plans to address issues and reduce risk. SafeGuard Sentinel server connects through OPC and ODBC, allowing it to gather information from DCSes, PLCs, and PACs from all major suppliers. Program integrates data to create all-inclusive database of information including Hazard and Operability Studies and Layer of Protection Analysis. This story is related to the following:Web Based Data Monitoring Software | Facility Monitoring Systems
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Big risks remain in energy and climate change arenas
2014-02-09 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Florida Times-Union: No country is doing as well as it should to address climate change, but the U.S. is doing better than most could have imagined a few years ago, says a scholar on energy issues. Changes in the economy and effective government policies have helped improve this countrys performance, and Michael Levi says that increased options for energy resources make him more optimistic about the future of climate change. But in this time of rapid transformation in energy resources and consumption, Americans need...
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Big companies step up efforts to trim environmental risks in supply chains
2014-02-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Multinational corporations say they are increasingly taking on a regulatory role in their supply chains to improve performance on environment, health and safety (EHS) issues, especially in developing countries where government oversight can be weak. Although EHS regulations are strong in some developing countries, including China, they can be difficult to enforce, as governments struggle to keep up with growth in manufacturing. Multinational corporations have traditionally conducted facility...
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Farmer alters crop rotation, drainage to cut weather extreme risks
2014-02-07 21:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Opts out of continuous corn The combination of weather extremes and disease and insect pressure have been especially hard on continuous corn, which took a 40-bushel per acre yield hit in 2010, 2011 and 2012 compared to rotated corn. For me the answer was to go back to a 50:50 corn-bean rotation, says Gary Niemeyer. It had been 85:15. read more
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Fracking's Thirst for Water: Investors Warned of the Hidden Financial Risks
2014-02-06 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Some of the nation's driest, drought-plagued places have quickly become its busiest hot spots of drilling for shale gas and oil, especially in Texas, Colorado and California. It's a dust-bowl-sized problem likely to become worse, according to a study released Wednesday by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group firm Ceres. Fracking, the controversial drilling technique, is consuming billions of gallons of water each year in states where water is increasingly scarce. The report warns that investors...
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