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The fight for the environment and the fight for blue-collar jobs are one and the same

2016-03-30 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Great Australian Bight is a pristine marine environment. Its a haven for humpback and sperm whales, blue whales and beak whales. Its Australias most significant seal lion nursery and said to be the worlds most important southern right whale nursery. It sustains huge fishing and tourism industries and BP is planning to drill it for oil. Yes, that BP - BP of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010, in which a well exploded and sank, killing 11 people and...

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Hospital, states fight opioid epidemic

2016-03-29 12:55:31| Biotech - Topix.net

President Barack Obama will announce a series of new public- and private-sector initiatives today designed to expand treatment, funding and education to fight the nation's prescription opioid and heroin abuse problem. From 2000 to 2014, the rate of opioid overdose deaths has increased 200 percent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Lawmakers are slowly giving up on the fight against GMO labels

2016-03-29 03:05:15| Food - Topix.net

Even as General Mills Inc and other companies vow to keep fighting mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, they have begun rolling out these disclosures across the United States to comply a new Vermont law. The moves come as U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to derail Vermont's law requiring labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, before it takes effect on July 1. The law sets fines of $1,000 per day per product for noncompliance.

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No Fight Left in Avon

2016-03-28 16:38:57| Air Courier - Topix.net

Avon would rather capitulate than switch. The company agreed to give activist investor Barington Capital Group LP the right to approve the appointment of an independent director to the company's board, avoiding a proxy fight.

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