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Big name coffee chains drawn into acrylamide fight
2014-09-23 16:21:15| Grocery - Topix.net
A group in California is suing coffee chains with the aim of getting them to label their coffee as carcinogenic © Shutterstock Starbucks and other big name coffee chains are being sued in California in a bid to get them to label their coffee products as containing a carcinogen. A non-profit is claiming that because of the levels of acrylamide in these chains' coffee consumers need to be warned.
White fight! Vandal wages one-person battle against Flatbush gentrification
2014-09-22 20:35:09| Railroads - Topix.net
Anti-white-gentrification graffiti has greeted straphangers on the platform of a Flatbush subway station for the last six months. The tags bearing messages such as "Fight white gentrification of FBush" and "Keep Flatbush black" have been scrawled across the pillars of the Church Avenue B and Q station as recently as Thursday and the unknown vandal behind them has penned new messages each time Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers painted over the last batch, as they did on Friday.
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Lapolla Industries Partners With White House To Reduce Harmful Greenhouse Gases And Fight Climate Change
2014-09-22 07:59:59| pollutiononline News Articles
At a ceremony this week in Washington, DC, The White House announced Lapolla Industries, Inc. as an official private sector partner of the President’s Climate Action Plan, recognizing the company’s efforts to curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are potent greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change
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A fare fight, via Harrisburg
2014-09-22 01:42:09| Real Estate - Topix.net
Uber and Lyft are making a concerted push to bring their ride-share services to Philadelphia, sparking opposition from local taxi owners and drivers and setting the stage for a legislative fight in Harrisburg this week. "We'll be here within weeks," Uber spokesman Taylor Bennett predicted confidently Thursday, a day before Uber representatives met with regulators at the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
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Kerry compares climate change to fight against Ebola and Isis as thousands march around world
2014-09-21 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 300,000 marchers flooded the streets of New York on Sunday in the largest climate change march in history, vaulting the environmental threat to the top of the global agenda. On a day of 2,700 simultaneous climate events from Melbourne to Manhattan, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, reinforced the calls from the streets for action by calling on world leaders to take the threat of climate change as seriously as Isis or Ebola. Organisers had called the day of protests in order to...
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