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Indonesian copper smelters at risk as mining policy misfires
2014-02-24 04:53:31| Real Estate - Topix.net
Indonesian policies to force miners to process raw materials at home are misfiring, as disputes over the new rules disrupt plans to invest nearly $4 billion in copper smelters to cater for miners such as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold.
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Can California Avoid a Shock to Trance Approach to Water Policy?
2014-02-23 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Forecasters predict heavy rains will sweep in from the Pacific Ocean over much of California late next week. The states extreme drought will be far from over, but the shift from parched days to downpours illustrates on a short time scale one factor explaining why its hard to change deeply ingrained and wasteful approaches to water policy. The West is a region where droughts come and go, but development pressure is a constant. Years ago, President Obama spoke of the nations shock to trance approach...
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Adobe Flash exploit targets security, public policy sites
2014-02-20 21:24:50| InfoWorld: Top News
Abobe planned to release an emergency update for Flash Player on Thursday, after security vendor FireEye pointed to a zero-day exploit used by attackers to target visitors to websites of three nonprofits, two of which focus on national security and public policy.
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New Fuel-Efficiency Standards for Trucks: A Political Priority, Not a Policy Improvement
2014-02-19 03:57:25| Trucking - Topix.net
President Obama announced a new round of fuel-efficiency rules for trucks today, saying that the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency would work together to find new ways to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
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B.C. Liberals to outline LNG policy plans in a promised balanced budget
2014-02-18 17:12:04| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
British Columbia Finance Minister Mike de Jong says the budget he will table today contains few spending announcements or tax breaks, but it's balanced and forecasts three years of surpluses - an achievement most other provinces would celebrate.
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