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EU and EFTA airports invest more than 53bn over ten years to boost capacity
2016-06-13 01:00:00| Airport Technology
European airport trade association ACI Europe has revealed that the top 21 airports in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) have invested more than 53bn in their facilities between 2005 and 2015.
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Coal production plummets to lowest level in 35 years
2016-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Coal production in the United States is plummeting to levels not seen since a crippling coal strike 35 years ago, according to a report released by the Energy Department on Friday. The coal industry in recent years has been plagued by bankruptcies as power utilities increasingly moved to replace coal with cheap natural gas and renewable sources, like solar and wind energy. Coal was once the dominant source of the nations electricity generation, but consumption of the fossil fuel has declined...
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30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming. What they said sounds eerily familiar
2016-06-11 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: It was such a different time -- and yet, the message was so similar. Thirty years ago, on June 10 and 11 of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, convened by Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.I.), on the subject of Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change. This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling, Chafee said at the hearing. The scientific evidence is telling us we have a problem, a serious...
Whistleblower Says EPA Officials Covered Up Toxic Fracking Methane Emissions for Years
2016-06-10 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Why has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to take adequate action against disastrous, climate-warming methane emissions from the fracking industry? An environmental watchdog alleges that the answer may be a years-long, systematic cover-up of the true data surrounding these toxic emissions. That cover-up, the group says, was at the hands of at least one EPA researcher who accepted payments from the oil and gas industry. In an incendiary federal complaint filed on Wednesday...
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MTN Nigeria agrees to pay NGN 330 bln fine over 3 years
2016-06-10 15:39:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) MTN Nigeria has announced that it has reached an agreement with the government of Nigeria over its fine for failing to cut off unregistered SIMs. The operator said it has agreed to pay a total cash amount of NGN 330 billion over three years, which is the equivalent of USD 1.671 billion at the official exchange rate and USD902 million at the Lagos Parallel Market Rate. It will pay this to the national government in full and final settlement of the matter.
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