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House Hearing On EPA Rule Turns Ugly As Rep Calls Regulations Un-American

2016-07-07 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ThinkProgress: Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) said the EPA's rules were "un-American" at a hearing this week. Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee harshly questioned the EPA`s acting assistant administrator, Janet McCabe, on Wednesday, saying that the Clean Power Plan, the EPA`s rule to reduce carbon emissions from the electricity sector, was overly burdensome on the American economy and was part of the EPA`s longstanding war on industry. Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) notably called the EPA rules "un-American,"...

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With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to "earth bag" houses

2016-07-06 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: At the local brick kiln, a truck laden with logs pulls up and unloads. Soon smoke is billowing, as a new set of bricks bakes inside. Malawi's construction industry relies heavily on bricks - and the wood needed to make them is a major reason the country's indigenous forests are fast disappearing. But an unusual home construction technique - using dirt or sand packed into plastic sacks and stacked - is now being tried out in Rumphi, in the north of the country, as a way to cut back on bricks...

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French label manufacturer turns to Prati

2016-07-05 21:39:00| Label and Narrow Web Breaking News

Prati recently installed the non-stop glueless turret rewinder STARPlus with Sextant Étiquettes.

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Rice University Students BioBlend Turns Food Waste into Compost

2016-06-30 15:10:00| Waste Age

Six students at Rice University have developed BioBlend, a mechanical gadget that attaches to food disposals to turn food waste into compost. read more

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