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US supreme court strikes down Obama's EPA limits air pollution
2015-06-29 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US supreme court struck down new rules for Americas biggest air polluters on Monday, dealing a blow to the Obama administrations efforts to set limits on the amount of mercury, arsenic and other toxins coal-fired power plants can spew into the air, lakes and rivers. The 5-4 decision was a major setback to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and could leave the agency more vulnerable to legal challenges from industry and Republican-led states to its other new carbon pollution rules....
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Supreme Court Blocks Obama Limits on Power Plants
2015-06-29 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday blocked one of the Obama administrations most ambitious environmental initiatives, one meant to limit emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision, joined by the courts more conservative members. Industry groups and some 20 states challenged the Environmental Protection Agencys decision to regulate the emissions, saying the agency had failed to take into account...
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EPA moves toward limits on emissions from US airlines
2015-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Wednesday to start the process of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the nations fleet of commercial aircraft, a long-desired objective of environmental groups. But some fear the ultimate approach may prove too weak. The agency released a proposed endangerment finding, meaning that it is suggesting that aircraft engines may contribute to the air pollution that causes climate change and endangers public health and welfare. Thats what the...
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Cuba Inc. open to foreign capitalists, but within limits
2015-06-08 15:37:45| Biotech - Topix.net
A French doctor, venture capitalist and founder of biotech company Abivax, Pouletty is working with Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology to develop a therapeutic vaccine to treat chronic Hepatitis B that could be on the Asian market in two years and in Europe after that. But when he pitched the idea of floating a company on the pan-European stock market Euronext with the Cuban state as a shareholder, that was clearly too much, too soon.
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Nashua officials: Development opportunities abound within city limits
2015-06-05 06:29:01| Paper - Topix.net
The people behind the popular Manchester startup eatery Mr. Mac's may have moved a step closer on Thursday to opening a restaurant in Nashua, and the day may come sooner than later, now that the long-abandoned former Nashua Corp. building on Franklin Street is transformed into a twin of its neighbor, Cotton Mill Square. Then there's the city's eastern gateway, which is about to get the much-needed attention it has lacked for too many years.
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