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Outgoing Philip Morris Int'l CEO made $24 million
2013-03-29 00:16:52| Food - Topix.net
Philip Morris International Inc., the world's second-biggest cigarette company, awarded its CEO Louis Camilleri a compensation package valued at more than $24.7 million in fiscal 2012, up about 23 percent from the previous year, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing.
World faces decades of climate chaos, outgoing chief scientific adviser warns
2013-03-25 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Professor Sir John Beddington said that time lags in the climate system meant that accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now will determine the weather we experience for the next 25 years. Climate change is already manifesting itself in huge variations in the weather, clearly illustrated by the way Britain experienced both drought and extreme rainfall last year, he said. The scientist said that the international community's failure to agree binding targets for cutting carbon emissions...
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Former Groupon CEO leaks outgoing memo: 'I was fired today'
2013-02-28 23:38:06| CNET News.com
Newly ousted Groupon chief executive Andrew Mason publishes a brutally honest internal memo to employees on his departure. [Read more]
Outgoing EPA chief convinced Obama serious on climate change
2013-02-04 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The departing chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson, says she cringes whenever she is asked if President Barack Obama is truly serious about confronting climate change. Of course he is, she tells them. "I don't think you need clues. The president has been really clear ... I'm not sure how much clearer he could be." And yet even Jackson herself was caught off guard last month, when sitting just steps from Obama during his second-term swearing-in, the president cited...
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Outgoing Energy Secretary Warns Of Dangers Of Climate Change
2013-02-01 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Secretary Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who came into office with high hopes. He was selected to help the president pursue his green energy agenda and fight climate change. It turned out to be a rocky road. Some of the green companies that got big government loans, like Solyndra, ended up going bankrupt, and the president had to drop his plans to get Congress to adopt climate change legislation. Still Chu helped the country make progress in becoming more energy efficient.
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